* David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically detect
> > hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are printed the
> > following way:
>
> Wouldn't a natural extension of this feature be to mark these hung
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks with a new thread flag such as TIF_HUNG for
> the purposes of the OOM killer?
maybe, but we'd have to see how often this gets triggered. An OOM is
something that could happen in any overloaded system - while a hung task
is likely due to a kernel bug.
Ingo
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