Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031194AbbD1Wka (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:40:30 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f171.google.com ([209.85.213.171]:38332 "EHLO mail-ig0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030901AbbD1WkZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:40:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Johannes Weiner cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Tetsuo Handa , Andrea Arcangeli , Dave Chinner , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in exit_oom_victim() In-Reply-To: <1430161555-6058-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Message-ID: References: <1430161555-6058-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1430161555-6058-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 18 On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Disabling the OOM killer needs to exclude allocators from entering, > not existing victims from exiting. > > Right now the only waiter is suspend code, which achieves quiescence > by disabling the OOM killer. But later on we want to add waits that > hold the lock instead to stop new victims from showing up. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/