Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:30:04 +0100
From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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Subject: Re: [v5 1/4] mm, oom: refactor the oom_kill_process() function
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 07:32:09PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > @@ -817,67 +817,12 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, const char *message)
> > +static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim)
> 
> oom_kill_task()?

Not sure, as it kills all tasks which are sharing mm with the given task.
Also, it will be confusing to have oom_kill_process() and oom_kill_task(),
where the actual difference is in how much verbose they are,
and if it's allowed to perfer a child process.