Re: [patch] trivial sysrq addon

[Andrew Morton]

Christian Leber <christian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think sysrq needs a key to call oom_kill manually.

oy, you can't do that - oom_kill() takes non-IRQ-safe locks.

You'll have to use schedule_work() to punt the operation up to process
context.
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