On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:06:46AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:05:59PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Wed 02-09-15 18:06:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > And if we aren't taking patch 1/2, I guess this one isn't needed either?
> > > 
> > > Unlike the patch1 which was pretty much cosmetic this fixes a real
> > > issue.
> > 
> > Ok, then it would be great to get this in a format that I can apply it
> > in :)
> 
> I see. Here is a minimal patch.
> (Acked-by: from 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150827084443.ge14...@dhcp22.suse.cz )
> ----------------------------------------
> >From 118609fa25700af11791b1b7e8349f8973a9e7e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 02:58:12 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] android, lmk: Send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE.
> 
> It was observed that setting TIF_MEMDIE before sending SIGKILL at
> oom_kill_process() allows memory reserves to be depleted by allocations
> which are not needed for terminating the OOM victim.
> 
> This patch reverts commit 6bc2b856bb7c ("staging: android: lowmemorykiller:
> set TIF_MEMDIE before send kill sig"), for oom_kill_process() was updated
> to send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 12 ++++--------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Please send this in a format that I can apply it in that doesn't require
me to hand-edit the email :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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