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

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 17-10-14 17:24:29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/16, Cong Wang wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 10/16, Cong Wang wrote:
> > >>
> > >> it will always stay in asleep after schedule()?
> > >
> > > Not always. But it will stay asleep in this particular case.
> >
> > Hmm, so we still need to wake it up in oom killer:
> >
> >         if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_MEMDIE)) {
> >                if (unlikely(frozen(task)))
> >                       wake_up_state(task, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> >
> > I will update the patch if Michal doesn't.
> 
> I think it would be better to simply keep that __thaw_task() in
> oom_scan_process_thread().

yeah, v2 of the patch (I guess you were on CC) does exactly this.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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