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SubjectRe: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:50:12 AM Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:48:28AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > Well, not exactly from anywhere. Just from where try_to_freeze() is called
>> > I suppose?
>>
>> Yeap, anywhere try_to_freeze() may be called.
>>
>> > Which means that if this is a user space task, it won't to a lot before dying,
>> > will it?
>>
>> Userland tasks aren't likely to a lot of damages before dying but then
>> again there's no guarantee. As it currently stands, try_to_freeze()
>> can be anywhere.
>
> Well, in that case the TIF_MEMDIE test alone is not sufficient in my opinion,
> because we can't guarantee that the task will not do something it was frozen
> to prevent it from doing.
>
>

That is true, there is a small window between TIF_MEMDIE is set
and SIGKILL is handled (aka process is killed), but this seems to
be a general signal handling issue not related with freezer after all
OOM relies on SIGKILL to function. No?


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