The patch titled Subject: mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4 mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4 +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -472,8 +472,10 @@ static void oom_reap_vmas(struct mm_stru int attempts = 0; /* Retry the down_read_trylock(mmap_sem) a few times */ - while (attempts++ < 10 && !__oom_reap_vmas(mm)) - msleep_interruptible(100); + while (attempts++ < 10 && !__oom_reap_vmas(mm)) { + __set_task_state(current, TASK_IDLE); + schedule_timeout(HZ/10); + } /* Drop a reference taken by wake_oom_reaper */ mmdrop(mm); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-rework-mapcount-accounting-to-enable-4k-mapping-of-thps-fix-5-fix.patch mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix.patch mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-4.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