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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2010-08-09 17:18:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-09 20:44:57 -0700
commite365893236ca78fa1fe2482ccbdc30e9abde6027 (patch)
tree36caf9177f592f0d3a93593b6a569be239aebf91 /include/linux
parent309ed882508cc471320ff79265e7340774d6746c (diff)
oom: remove special handling for pagefault ooms
It is possible to remove the special pagefault oom handler by simply oom locking all system zones and then calling directly into out_of_memory(). All populated zones must have ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set, otherwise there is a parallel oom killing in progress that will lead to eventual memory freeing so it's not necessary to needlessly kill another task. The context in which the pagefault is allocating memory is unknown to the oom killer, so this is done on a system-wide level. If a task has already been oom killed and hasn't fully exited yet, this will be a no-op since select_bad_process() recognizes tasks across the system with TIF_MEMDIE set. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: 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>
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