On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > > What exactly would you like to see? > > How often do you see PF_EXITING tasks which haven't been killed causing > a pointless notification? Because fatal_signal_pending and TIF_MEMDIE > cases are already handled because we bypass charges in those cases (except > for user OOM killer killed tasks which don't get TIF_MEMDIE and that > should be fixed). >
Triggering a pointless notification with PF_EXITING is rare, yet one pointless notification can be avoided with the patch. Additionally, it also avoids a pointless notification for a racing SIGKILL. -- 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/
