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

[Oleg Nesterov]

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.


(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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