Re: [PATCH 6/5] oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 17-02-16 10:48:55, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> although this can be folded into patch 5
> (mm-oom_reaper-implement-oom-victims-queuing.patch) I think it would be
> better to have it separate and revert after we sort out the proper
> oom_kill_allocating_task behavior or handle exclusion at oom_reaper
> level.

An alternative would be something like the following. It is definitely
less hackish but it steals one bit in mm->flags. We do not seem to be
in shortage there now but who knows. Does this sound better? Later
changes might even consider the flag for the victim selection and ignore
those which already have the flag set. But I didn't think about it more
to form a patch yet.
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