From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx135.postini.com [74.125.245.135]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA636B0265 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:44:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dakp5 with SMTP id p5so3510751dak.14 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: [patch 3.5-rc3] mm, oom: fix potential killing of thread that is disabled from oom killing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task will immediately kill current when the oom killer is called to avoid a potentially expensive tasklist scan for large systems. Currently, however, it is not checking current's oom_score_adj value which may be OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN, meaning that it has been disabled from oom killing. This patch avoids killing current in such a condition and simply falls back to the tasklist scan since memory still needs to be freed. 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 @@ -720,9 +720,9 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, check_panic_on_oom(constraint, gfp_mask, order, mpol_mask); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task && + if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task && current->mm && !oom_unkillable_task(current, NULL, nodemask) && - current->mm) { + current->signal->oom_score_adj != OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) { oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, totalpages, NULL, nodemask, "Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)"); -- 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