From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f177.google.com (mail-ie0-f177.google.com [209.85.223.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DC76B0087 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:00:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by iefd2 with SMTP id d2so8113325ief.2 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f16si576588igo.41.2015.06.18.16.00.11 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by igblz2 with SMTP id lz2so2266926igb.1 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: [patch 3/3] mm, oom: do not panic for oom kills triggered from sysrq In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Sysrq+f is used to kill a process either for debug or when the VM is otherwise unresponsive. It is not intended to trigger a panic when no process may be killed. Avoid panicking the system for sysrq+f when no processes are killed. Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: David Rientjes --- Documentation/sysrq.txt | 3 ++- mm/oom_kill.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysrq.txt b/Documentation/sysrq.txt --- a/Documentation/sysrq.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysrq.txt @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.: 'e' - Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init. -'f' - Will call oom_kill to kill a memory hog process. +'f' - Will call the oom killer to kill a memory hog process, but do not + panic if nothing can be killed. 'g' - Used by kgdb (kernel debugger) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ void check_panic_on_oom(struct oom_control *oc, enum oom_constraint constraint, if (constraint != CONSTRAINT_NONE) return; } + /* Do not panic for oom kills triggered by sysrq */ + if (oc->order == -1) + return; dump_header(oc, NULL, memcg); panic("Out of memory: %s panic_on_oom is enabled\n", sysctl_panic_on_oom == 2 ? "compulsory" : "system-wide"); @@ -686,11 +689,11 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc) p = select_bad_process(oc, &points, totalpages); /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */ - if (!p) { + if (!p && oc->order != -1) { dump_header(oc, NULL, NULL); panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n"); } - if (p != (void *)-1UL) { + if (p && p != (void *)-1UL) { oom_kill_process(oc, p, points, totalpages, NULL, "Out of memory"); killed = 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