On Wed 05-11-14 14:31:00, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 05-11-14 08:02:47, Tejun Heo wrote: [...] > > Also, why isn't this part of > > oom_killer_disable/enable()? The way they're implemented is really > > silly now. It just sets a flag and returns whether there's a > > currently running instance or not. How were these even useful? > > Why can't you just make disable/enable to what they were supposed to > > do from the beginning? > > Because then we would block all the potential allocators coming from > workqueues or kernel threads which are not frozen yet rather than fail > the allocation.
After thinking about this more it would be doable by using trylock in the allocation oom path. I will respin the patch. The API will be cleaner this way. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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/
