Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 18:46:04 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > Rafael, can you please help?
>
> Rafael is known not responsive at least for this topic. :)

:(

> > Shouldn't the primary goal of the comment be explaining why we need
> > TIF_MEMDIE check there at all anyway? The deadlock possiblity is not
> > very obvious.
>
> The changelog is not long enough?? ;-) I hate to copy+paste changelog
> into comments, changelog is essentially necessary for people to understand
> kernel code (at least networking) , so I don't think we have to move it
> into comments in this case.

It doesn't have to be the same text but the current comment is
basically content-less. e.g. it can just say "OOM killer may get
stuck trying to kill a cgroup frozen task" and actualy provide
information on what condition the conditional tries to address.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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