Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:09:21 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations |
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote: > > Adding a 'oom_notify' bitfield after the existing 'dumpable' > bitfield in mm_struct would save that slot: > > unsigned dumpable:2; > unsigned oom_notify:1;
Note that these will occupy the same machine word. So they'll need locking. (Good luck trying to demonstrate the race though!)
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