Re: can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory?

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 10/07, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Anyway. Perhaps it makes sense to abort the for_each_vma() loop if
> > freed_enough_mem() == T. But it is absolutely not clear to me how we
> > should define this freed_enough_mem(), so I think we should do this
> > later.
>
> Maybe
>
>   bool freed_enough_mem(void) { !atomic_read(&oom_victims); }
>
> if we change to call mark_oom_victim() on all threads which should be
> killed as OOM victims.

Well, in this case

	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
		break;

makes much more sense. Plus we do not need to change mark_oom_victim().

Lets discuss this later?

Oleg.

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