On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:09:45 -0500 > Will Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group. > > > > We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad > > state after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory > > condition. > > Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a > > bad state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for > > the application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very > > obvious that something has gone wrong. > > > > This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather > > than just the one thread. > > Just checking... > > blackfin > h8300 > m68knommu > uml > v850 > > were not changed. Intentional?
Yes. Those arch's don't have the VM oom code that I could see. There is an occasional do_exit() reference elsewhere in the fault handler code, for reasons other than VM oom, so I deliberately didn't touch those either. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
