mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"

The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index fad18f9456e..ffead13f944 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1167,13 +1167,11 @@ CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS
 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
 ------------------------------------------------------
 
-This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes should
-be killed in an out-of-memory situation.  The oom_adj value is a characteristic
-of the task's mm, so all threads that share an mm with pid will have the same
-oom_adj value.  A high value will increase the likelihood of this process being
-killed by the oom-killer.  Valid values are in the range -16 to +15 as
-explained below and a special value of -17, which disables oom-killing
-altogether for threads sharing pid's mm.
+This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes
+should be killed in an  out-of-memory  situation.  Giving it a high score will
+increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer.  Valid
+values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables
+oom-killing altogether for this process.
 
 The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others
 based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process
@@ -1187,9 +1185,6 @@ the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers
 are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make
 parent less preferable than the child.
 
-/proc/<pid>/oom_adj cannot be changed for kthreads since they are immune from
-oom-killing already.
-
 /proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score.
 
 The following heuristics are then applied: