Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2016 01:20:08 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm, oom: kill all tasks sharing the mm |
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On 06/06, David Rientjes wrote: > > > There is a potential race where we kill the oom disabled task which is > > highly unlikely but possible. It would happen if __set_oom_adj raced > > with select_bad_process and then it is OK to consider the old value or > > with fork when it should be acceptable as well. > > Let's add a little note to the log so that people would tell us that > > this really happens in the real life and it matters. > > > > We cannot kill oom disabled processes at all, little race or otherwise.
But this change doesn't really make it worse?
Oleg.
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