Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Aug 25 2011 - 17:01:34 EST


On Thursday, August 25, 2011, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/25, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > On Wed 24-08-11 12:31:26, David Rientjes wrote:
> > >
> > > That's obviously false since we call oom_killer_disable() in
> > > freeze_processes() to disable the oom killer from ever being called in the
> > > first place, so this is something you need to resolve with Rafael before
> > > you cause more machines to panic.
> >
> > I didn't mean suspend/resume path (that is protected by oom_killer_disabled)
> > so the patch doesn't make any change.
>
> Confused... freeze_processes() does try_to_freeze_tasks() before
> oom_killer_disable() ?

Yes, it does.

Thanks,
Rafael
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