Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:43:21 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] mm/oom_kill: remove the wrong fatal_signal_pending() |
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On 09/29, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > The fatal_signal_pending() was added to suppress unnecessary "sharing > > same memory" message, but it can't 100% help anyway because it can be > > false-negative; SIGKILL can be already dequeued. > > > > And worse, it can be false-positive due to exec or coredump. exec is > > mostly fine, but coredump is not. It is possible that the group leader > > has the pending SIGKILL because its sub-thread originated the coredump, > > in this case we must not skip this process. > > > > We could probably add the additional ->group_exit_task check but this > > pach just removes fatal_signal_pending(), the extra "Kill process" is > > unlikely and doesn't really hurt. > > > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thanks!
> In addition, I'm really debating whether we need the "sharing same memory" > line or not. In the past, it has been helpful because there is no other > way to determine what the kernel has killed other than to leave an > artifact behind in the kernel log. I can imagine that this could easily > spam the kernel log, though, accompanied by oom killer messages that are > already very verbose. I wouldn't mind if it the printk were removed > entirely.
Yes, me too... let me reply to Tetsuo's email.
Oleg.
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