Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:00:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper |
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:55:11 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote: > > Ups. You are right. I will go with msleep_interruptible(100). > > I don't think that's right. > > If a signal happens, that loop is now (again) just busy-looping.
It's called only by a kernel thread so no signal_pending(). This relationship is a bit unobvious and fragile, but we do it in quite a few places.
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