The patch titled Subject: mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill-v2 has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill-v2.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill-v2 Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill-v2 mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill-v2 +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -563,7 +563,11 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control /* mm cannot safely be dereferenced after task_unlock(victim) */ mm = victim->mm; - /* Send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE. */ + /* + * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent + * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user + * space under its control. + */ do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, victim, true); mark_oom_victim(victim); pr_err("Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB\n", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill.patch mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process.patch mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html