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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2012-03-21 16:34:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -0700 |
| commit | 08ab9b10d43aca091fdff58b69fc1ec89c5b8a83 (patch) | |
| tree | 73abfd3a257f3feadc0fa28c3117aaa9d95af596 /drivers | |
| parent | b76437579d1344b612cf1851ae610c636cec7db0 (diff) | |
mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+f
The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:
- an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
and
- an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.
SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.
For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c index ecb8e2203ac8..136e86faa1e1 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c +++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_term_op = { static void moom_callback(struct work_struct *ignored) { - out_of_memory(node_zonelist(0, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL, 0, NULL); + out_of_memory(node_zonelist(0, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL, 0, NULL, true); } static DECLARE_WORK(moom_work, moom_callback); |