From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:07:37 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Message-ID: <20030704210737.GI955@holomorphy.com> References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:37:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.74/2.5.74-mm1/ anton saw the OOM killer try to kill pdflush, causing tons of spurious wakeups. This should avoid picking kernel threads in select_bad_process(). -- wli ===== mm/oom_kill.c 1.23 vs edited ===== --- 1.23/mm/oom_kill.c Wed Apr 23 03:15:53 2003 +++ edited/mm/oom_kill.c Fri Jul 4 14:03:32 2003 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ struct task_struct *chosen = NULL; do_each_thread(g, p) - if (p->pid) { + if (p->pid && p->mm) { int points = badness(p); if (points > maxpoints) { chosen = p; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org