Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ma, Xindong" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit | Date | Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:06:25 +0000 |
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> From: Oleg Nesterov [mailto:oleg@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:39 AM > To: Michal Hocko > Cc: William Dauchy; Johannes Weiner; Ma, Xindong; > akpm@linux-foundation.org; rientjes@google.com; rusty@rustcorp.com.au; > linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra; > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Tu, Xiaobing; azurIt; Sameer Nanda > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit > > On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is > > optimal unfortunately. > > yes, but this one doesn't look right. > > > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen some patches but > > didn't geto check them. > > Only preparations so far. > > Oleg.
I was not aware there's a long story for this issue. I hit this issue a lot of times during stress test and root caused it. After applying my patch, I did extensive test on 5 machines for a long time, it does not reproduced anymore so I submitted the patch.
I will do more research on this issue.
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