Re: [PATCH respin, was PATCH for review] During VM oom condition,kill all threads in process group

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:09:45 -0500
Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group.
> 
> We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad
> state after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
> condition.
> Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a
> bad state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for
> the application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very
> obvious that something has gone wrong.
> 
> This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
> than just the one thread.

Just checking...

blackfin
h8300
m68knommu
uml
v850

were not changed.  Intentional?
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