Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH for review] [11/48] x86_64: During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group | From | Will Schmidt <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:03:09 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:14 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:48:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > From: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> > > > > > > During a VM oom condition, kill all threads in the process group. > > > > > > We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state > > > after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory condition. > > > > > > Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad > > > state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the > > > application to restart, or otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious that > > > something has gone wrong. > > > > > > This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather than just > > > the one thread. > > > > Shouldn't we have one patc hthat does this for every architecture instead > > of going through arch maintainers and probably losing half of them? > > Yes, please ;-)
Ok, i'm convinced. :-) I'll spin up an all-arch encompassing patch in the next day or so.
-Will
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > return -EMAINTAINER_TOO_BUSY
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