Re: [PATCH 17/23] kmem controller charge/uncharge infrastructure

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 10:46:36 EST




About kmem, if we count task_struct, page tables, etc...which can be freed by
OOM-Killer i.e. it's allocated for 'process', should be aware of OOM problem.
Using mm->owner makes sense to me until someone finds a great idea to handle
OOM situation rather than task killing.


noted, will update.

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