Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static void set_pageblock_migratetype(st
>  					PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end);
>  }
>  
> +bool oom_killer_disabled __read_mostly;
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>  static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
>  {
> @@ -1600,6 +1602,9 @@ nofail_alloc:
>  		if (page)
>  			goto got_pg;
>  	} else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
> +		if (oom_killer_disabled)
> +			goto nopage;
> +
>  		if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
>  			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
>  			goto restart;

This allows __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to fail.

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