Re: [patch 3/6] arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic faulthandler

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 25-07-13 18:25:35, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM
> > killer in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults
> > occuring in kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully -
> > from user-triggered faults.
> > 
> > Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
> > architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
> > handling can be improved.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good to me but I guess maintainers of the affected archs should be
> CCed

linux-arch is on CC, that should do the trick :)

> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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