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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2013-09-12 15:13:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 15:38:01 -0700
commit519e52473ebe9db5cdef44670d5a97f1fd53d721 (patch)
tree635fce64ff3658250745b9c8dfebd47e981a5b16 /include/linux/memcontrol.h
parent3a13c4d761b4b979ba8767f42345fed3274991b0 (diff)
mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults
System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM. Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the only option available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memcontrol.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memcontrol.h44
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index d4d1f9b0dbb..34ac6497d01 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -151,6 +151,37 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
extern void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
struct page *newpage);
+/**
+ * mem_cgroup_toggle_oom - toggle the memcg OOM killer for the current task
+ * @new: true to enable, false to disable
+ *
+ * Toggle whether a failed memcg charge should invoke the OOM killer
+ * or just return -ENOMEM. Returns the previous toggle state.
+ */
+static inline bool mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(bool new)
+{
+ bool old;
+
+ old = current->memcg_oom.may_oom;
+ current->memcg_oom.may_oom = new;
+
+ return old;
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_enable_oom(void)
+{
+ bool old = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(true);
+
+ WARN_ON(old == true);
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_disable_oom(void)
+{
+ bool old = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(false);
+
+ WARN_ON(old == false);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
extern int do_swap_account;
#endif
@@ -383,6 +414,19 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
{
}
+static inline bool mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(bool new)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_enable_oom(void)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_disable_oom(void)
+{
+}
+
static inline void mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx)
{