* Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Why? Each syscall already is killable as the task might be killed by the
> > > OOM
> > > killer.
> >
> > Not all syscalls are interruptible - for example sys_sync() isn't:
>
> I guess we are talking past each other. [...]
Heh, you are being polite, I think what h
On Wed 09-03-16 14:43:39, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > On Wed 09-03-16 14:17:10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Michal Hocko wrote:
> > >
> > > > > [...] this is a follow up work for oom_reaper [1]. As the async OOM
> > > > > killing
> > > > > depends on oom_sem fo
* Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 09-03-16 14:17:10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > > > [...] this is a follow up work for oom_reaper [1]. As the async OOM
> > > > killing
> > > > depends on oom_sem for read we would really appreciate if a holder for
> > > > write
On Wed 09-03-16 14:17:10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > > [...] this is a follow up work for oom_reaper [1]. As the async OOM
> > > killing
> > > depends on oom_sem for read we would really appreciate if a holder for
> > > write
> > > stood in the way. This patchset i
* Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [...] this is a follow up work for oom_reaper [1]. As the async OOM
> > killing
> > depends on oom_sem for read we would really appreciate if a holder for
> > write
> > stood in the way. This patchset is changing many of down_write calls to be
> > killable to h
On Wed 09-03-16 13:18:50, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > the following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
> > rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users to use a
> > killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_r
* Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
> rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users to use a
> killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_reaper [1] to
> asynchronously
> tear down the oom victim ad
Are there any fundamenta lobjections to the patchset? I plan to resubmit
next week with the changes from the feedback along with the mmap_sem
down_write_killable usage.
On Tue 02-02-16 21:19:17, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> the following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
> rw
Hi,
the following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users to use
a killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_reaper [1] to
asynchronously tear down the oom victim address space which requires
mmap_sem for rea
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