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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2011-03-23 16:42:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-23 19:46:33 -0700
commitf9434ad1552427fab49336e1a6e3ef121895b9d1 (patch)
tree5284bccbf71e601d056d138e894c27726047dc82 /mm/shmem.c
parent5a6475a4e162200f43855e2d42bbf55bcca1a9f2 (diff)
memcg: give current access to memory reserves if it's trying to die
When a memcg is oom and current has already received a SIGKILL, then give it access to memory reserves with a higher scheduling priority so that it may quickly exit and free its memory. This is identical to the global oom killer and is done even before checking for panic_on_oom: a pending SIGKILL here while panic_on_oom is selected is guaranteed to have come from userspace; the thread only needs access to memory reserves to exit and thus we don't unnecessarily panic the machine until the kernel has no last resort to free memory. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> 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>
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