Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Aug 25 2011 - 11:21:39 EST


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() ?

Oleg.

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