Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759497Ab0FQBvq (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:51:46 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:34321 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759270Ab0FQBvl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:51:41 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + oom-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch added to -mm tree Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, oleg@redhat.com, balbir@in.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, rientjes@google.com In-Reply-To: <201006082350.o58NovSr032191@imap1.linux-foundation.org> References: <201006082350.o58NovSr032191@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: <20100617102532.FB60.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: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:51:38 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1687 Lines: 44 > > The patch titled > oom: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > oom-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch > > Before you just go and hit "reply", please: > a) Consider who else should be cc'ed > b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well > c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a > reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's > > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** > > See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find > out what to do about this > > The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Subject: oom: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads > From: Oleg Nesterov > > select_bad_process() thinks a kernel thread can't have ->mm != NULL, this > is not true due to use_mm(). > > Change the code to check PF_KTHREAD. > > Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes > Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro > Cc: Balbir Singh > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro -- 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/