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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/10] mm, oom: kill all tasks sharing the mm
On 06/06, David Rientjes wrote:
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> > 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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