Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:54:52 +0100 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] memcg: do not trigger OOM from add_to_page_cache_locked |
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On Tue 27-11-12 09:05:30, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: [...] > As a short term fix, I think this patch will work enough and seems simple enough. > Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Thanks! If Johannes is also ok with this for now I will resubmit the patch to Andrew after I hear back from the reporter.
> Reading discussion between you and Johannes, to release locks, I understand > the memcg need to return "RETRY" for a long term fix. Thinking a little, > it will be simple to return "RETRY" to all processes waited on oom kill queue > of a memcg and it can be done by a small fixes to memory.c.
I wouldn't call it simple but it is doable. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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