Re: + freezer-check-oom-kill-while-being-frozen.patch added to -mm tree

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Oct 17 2014 - 12:06:57 EST


On Fri 17-10-14 17:31:55, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/17, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > Can we simply make the task sleep interruptible?
>
> No, this will turn __refrigerator() into the busy-wait loop if
> signal_pending() == T.

good point.

> (but I still think it makes sense to kill PF_FROZEN and introduce
> TASK_FROZEN state, however this is offtopic).
>
> Oleg.
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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