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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:29:31 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
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On 12/04, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
> > that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
> > selecting process to kill".
>
> Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
> additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
> stable?

Unlikely...

I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
(and obviously incomplete) fix.

Oleg.