Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] mm/oom_kill: remove the wrong fatal_signal_pending()check in oom_kill_process()

[Tetsuo Handa]

David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> > The fatal_signal_pending() was added to suppress unnecessary "sharing
> > same memory" message, but it can't 100% help anyway because it can be
> > false-negative; SIGKILL can be already dequeued.
> > 
> > And worse, it can be false-positive due to exec or coredump. exec is
> > mostly fine, but coredump is not. It is possible that the group leader
> > has the pending SIGKILL because its sub-thread originated the coredump,
> > in this case we must not skip this process.
> > 
> > We could probably add the additional ->group_exit_task check but this
> > pach just removes the wrong check along with pr_info().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Please s/pach/patch/ when applying.

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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