Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:26:56 +0200 |
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On Thursday, September 11, 2014 04:04:48 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 11-09-14 16:17:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [...] > > And I'm still wondering if the OOM killer may be made avoid killing frozen > > tasks. > > This is really tricky. OOM killer aims at the biggest memory hog. We > shouldn't ignore it just because it hides into the fridge... So even > if we "fix" oom killer to ignore frozen tasks (which is inherently > racy btw.) then we have a potential problem of freezer abuse (e.g. in > container environments). So I strongly believe that the OOM killer has > to be able to kill a frozen tasks.
OK
Is the OOM killer the only place where TIF_MEMDIE is set?
Rafael
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