On Tue 09-09-14 07:50:12, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:48:28AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Well, not exactly from anywhere. Just from where try_to_freeze() is called > > I suppose? > > Yeap, anywhere try_to_freeze() may be called. > > > Which means that if this is a user space task, it won't to a lot before > > dying, > > will it? > > Userland tasks aren't likely to a lot of damages before dying but then > again there's no guarantee. As it currently stands, try_to_freeze() > can be anywhere.
But OOM killer doesn't kill kernel threads as they do not own any memory. So the check should be safe, no? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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/
