Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocateglobally

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > Reverts git commit c596d9f320aaf30d28c1d793ff3a976dee1db8f5.
> > 
> > OOM-killed tasks, marked as TIF_MEMDIE, should not be able to access 
> > memory outside its cpuset because it could potentially cause other 
> > exclusive cpusets to OOM themselves.
> 
> Those terminating tasks need that memory to terminate properly right?
> 

No, they need access only to the memory reserves provided by the 
difference in their low and no watermarks on a per-cpuset basis.
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