Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 04:04:48 PM Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 11-09-14 16:17:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [...]
> > And I'm still wondering if the OOM killer may be made avoid killing frozen
> > tasks.
> 
> This is really tricky. OOM killer aims at the biggest memory hog. We
> shouldn't ignore it just because it hides into the fridge... So even
> if we "fix" oom killer to ignore frozen tasks (which is inherently
> racy btw.) then we have a potential problem of freezer abuse (e.g. in
> container environments). So I strongly believe that the OOM killer has
> to be able to kill a frozen tasks.

OK

Is the OOM killer the only place where TIF_MEMDIE is set?

Rafael

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