Re: [RFC]: userspace memory reaping

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Nov 03 2020 - 04:35:55 EST


On Mon 02-11-20 12:29:24, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
[...]
> To follow up on this. Should I post an RFC implementing SIGKILL_SYNC
> which in addition to sending a kill signal would also reap the
> victim's mm in the context of the caller? Maybe having some code will
> get the discussion moving forward?

Yeah, having a code, even preliminary, might help here. This definitely
needs a good to go from process management people as that proper is land
full of surprises...
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs