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

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, David Rientjes wrote:

> mems_allowed.  Regardless, we should not allow allocations outside of the 
> cpuset because we have marked it TIF_MEMDIE and we don't have any explicit 
> guarantee that it is exiting yet and not mlock'ing an excessive amount of 
> memory that exceeds the capacity of all cpuset nodes.

Hmmmm... But we have sent it a SIGKILL. If the process is following 
conventions then it is exiting. Of course the process could be abusing the 
system and attempting to OOM the whole system as an act of revenge for 
being killed but isnt this a bit far fetched?



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