From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx157.postini.com [74.125.245.157]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E9CF6B0062 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:08:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so11026392pbb.14 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:08:03 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: [patch] mm, oom: do not schedule if current has been killed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Oleg Nesterov , linux-mm@kvack.org The oom killer currently schedules away from current in an uninterruptible sleep if it does not have access to memory reserves. It's possible that current was killed because it shares memory with the oom killed thread or because it was killed by the user in the interim, however. This patch only schedules away from current if it does not have a pending kill, i.e. if it does not share memory with the oom killed thread. It's possible that it will immediately retry its memory allocation and fail, but it will immediately be given access to memory reserves if it calls the oom killer again. This prevents the delay of memory freeing when threads that share memory with the oom killed thread get unnecessarily scheduled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes --- mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ out: * Give "p" a good chance of killing itself before we * retry to allocate memory unless "p" is current */ - if (killed && !test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)) + if (killed && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); } @@ -765,6 +765,6 @@ void pagefault_out_of_memory(void) out_of_memory(NULL, 0, 0, NULL, false); clear_system_oom(); } - if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)) + if (!fatal_signal_pending(current)) schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); } -- 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: email@kvack.org