Re: [PATCH 7/8] Use TASK_KILLABLE instead TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/14/2009 07:32 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> When fork bomb invoke OOM Killer, almost task might start to reclaim and
> sleep on shrink_zone_begin(). if we use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, OOM killer
> can't kill such task. it mean we never recover from fork bomb.
>
> This patch fixes it.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As with patch 4/8 I am not convinced that wake_up_all is
the correct thing to do.

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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