On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:26:40AM +0000, Wang, Biao wrote: > Consider the following case: > Task A trigger lmk with a lock held, while task B try to get this lock, but > unfortunately B is the very culprit task lmk select to kill. Then B will > never be killed, and A will forever select B to kill. > Such dead lock will trigger softlock up issue. > > This patch try to pick the next task to break this loop. > > Signed-off-by: Wang Biao <biao.w...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Zhang Di <di.zh...@intel.com> > --- > drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Please address Dave's review comments, I'll not take this as-is, sorry. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
