Re: [PATCH] percpu: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +   if (!is_atomic) {
> > +           if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> > +                   mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
> > +           else if (mutex_lock_killable(&pcpu_alloc_mutex))
> > +                   return NULL;
> > +   }
> 
> It would benefit from a comment explaining why we're doing this (it's
> for the oom-killer).

And, yeah, this would be great.  Kirill, can you please send a patch
to add a comment there?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun