Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> Yup.
> If admins want to kill memory hogging process manually when the system
> is under heavy swap thrashing, we will face the same problem, need 
> unfairness and fast exit. So, unfair exiting design looks very good.
> 
> If you will updated the description, I'm glad :)

I have one more topic. can we check fatal_signal_pending() instead TIF_MEMDIE?
As I said, if the process received SIGKILL, do the fork/exec/brk/mmap 
starvations have any problem?

Thanks.


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