Re: 2.5.68-mm2

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:14:54 -0700


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:59:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> rml and I coordinated to put together a small patch (combining both
> our own) for properly locking the static variables in out_of_memory().
> There's not any evidence things are going wrong here now, but it at
> least addresses the visible lack of locking in out_of_memory().
> Applies cleanly to 2.5.68-mm2.

Improved OOM killer behavior verified on 64GB i386.

-- wli
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