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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com,
	kwalker@redhat.com, mhocko@kernel.org, skozina@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] coredump: make SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP more friendly to oom-killer
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:40:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930164026.GA9505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201510010112.FAB18244.OFtFMSFJLVOOQH@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On 10/01, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > This patch just makes the SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check in task_will_free_mem()
> > a bit more correct wrt CLONE_VM tasks, nothing more.
>
> OK. Then, that's out of what I can understand. But I wish for
> some description to PATCH 2/2 about why to change from
> "do { } while_each_thread()" to "for_each_thread() { }"

while_each_thread() is deprecated, see 0c740d0afc

> because they seem to traverse differently.

Not really. And in this particular case (start from group leader)
even the order is the same, although this doesn't matter. Well,
except for_each_thread(p, t) can find no threads, but this is fine
too; this means that they all (including the leader) have exited.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-29 15:54 [PATCH 0/2] coredump: make SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP more friendly to oom-killer Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-29 15:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-05 16:25   ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-29 15:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-30 11:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] coredump: make SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP more friendly to oom-killer Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 14:15   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-30 16:12     ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 16:40       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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