On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Ming Liu wrote: > After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and > kills all other user threads that share the same mm_struct in different > thread groups. > > But in some extreme cases, the selected task happens to be a vfork child > of init process sharing the same mm_struct with it, which causes kernel > panic on init getting killed. This panic is observed in a busybox shell > that busybox itself is init, with a kthread keeps consuming memories. >
We shouldn't be selecting a process where mm == init_mm in the first place, so this wouldn't fix the issue entirely. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
