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

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Oct 01 2015 - 08:49:53 EST


On Wed 30-09-15 20:24:05, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
[...]
> 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.

I do not understand this. If the group leader has SIGKILL pending it
will die anyway regardless whether we send another sigkill or not, no?

Or is the issue that another SIGKILL will wake it up?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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