On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > current code has a possibility that the OOM reaper is disturbed by > unpredictable dependencies, like I worried that > > I think that there is a possibility that the OOM reaper tries to reclaim > mlocked pages as soon as exit_mmap() cleared VM_LOCKED flag by calling > munlock_vma_pages_all(). > > when current approach was proposed.
That's exactly the issue that this patch is fixing, yes. If you brought that possibility up then I'm sorry that it was ignored.
