Re: [PATCH 4/9] oom: oom_kill_process() need to check p isunkillable

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > > When oom_kill_allocating_task is enabled, an argument task of
> > > oom_kill_process is not selected by select_bad_process(), It's
> > > just out_of_memory() caller task. It mean the task can be
> > > unkillable. check it first.
> > > 
> > 
> > This should be unnecessary if oom_kill_process() appropriately returns 
> > non-zero when it cannot kill a task.  What problem are you addressing with 
> > this fix?
> 
> oom_kill_process() only check its children are unkillable, not its own.

No, oom_kill_process() returns the value of oom_kill_task(victim) which is 
non-zero for !victim->mm in mmotm-2010-06-11-16-40 (and 2.6.34 although 
victim == p in that case).
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