Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:16:21 -0500 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] [PATCH i386] during VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group |
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Hi,
> zap_other_threads() requires tasklist_lock. > > If we're going to do this then we should probably create some new function > (with a better name) which takes tasklsit_lock and then calls > zap_other_threads(). > > Does this patch fix any observed-in-the-real-world problem? If so, please > describe it.
Yeah we have had complaints where threaded apps have only one thread shot down instead of the entire process. This leaves the application in a bad state, whereas if it had been killed cleanly the application could have restarted.
My understanding is that fatal signals should kill all threads in the group.
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