Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:07:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:07:21 -0500 Received: from mario.gams.at ([194.42.96.10]:27944 "EHLO mario.gams.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:07:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Axel Kittenberger Organization: Maxxio Technologies To: Jesse Pollard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch: oom_kill Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:13:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: riel@nl.linux.org References: <200302041332.05096.Axel.Kittenberger@maxxio.com> <200302040807.03214.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> In-Reply-To: <200302040807.03214.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200302041513.29093.Axel.Kittenberger@maxxio.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 14 > And what about processes that get reparented to init? These could be > causing the OOM. I didn't think that the p_ptr was null when reparenting > happens. Okay good, should we use the "original parent" instead? Yes, I'm not absolutly not sure if the != NULL expression is necessary, Don't know enough about the task structering for this. I tried without and the machine at least didn't crash, but just wanted to be safe. - 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/