Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261347AbVCOCDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:03:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261393AbVCOCDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:03:21 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62864 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261347AbVCOCDT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:03:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:02:58 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: coywolf@gmail.com Cc: coywolf@sosdg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] oom_kill fix Message-Id: <20050314180258.271acfab.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050314181442.GA31020@everest.sosdg.org> References: <20050314181442.GA31020@everest.sosdg.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 485 Lines: 11 Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > This oom_kill fix is to do mmput(mm) a bit earlier and returning 0 or 1 > to indicate success or failure instead of returning mm_struct pointer. Why is this a "fix"? What bug is it fixing? - 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/