Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758273Ab0FBNyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:54:45 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:56556 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758212Ab0FBNyF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:54:05 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] oom: select_bad_process: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Oleg Nesterov , LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Nick Piggin In-Reply-To: References: <20100601212023.GA24917@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20100602223612.F52D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:54:03 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 26 > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > But yes, I agree, the problem is minor. But nevertheless it is bug, > > the longstanding bug with the simple fix. Why should we "hide" this fix > > inside the long series of non-trivial patches which rewrite oom-killer? > > And it is completely orthogonal to other changes. > > > > Again, the question is whether or not the fix is rc material or not, > otherwise there's no difference in the route that it gets upstream: the > patch is duplicated in both series. If you feel that this minor issue > (which has never been reported in at least the last three years and > doesn't have any side effects other than a couple of millisecond delay > until unuse_mm() when the oom killer will kill something else) should be > addressed in 2.6.35-rc2, then that's a conversation to be had with Andrew. Well, we have bugfix-at-first development rule. Why do you refuse our development process? -- 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/