From fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:03:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] support for panic at OOM This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm. When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue processes. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in the same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only root can modifies it. In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole system can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable rather than kill some processes. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 0d656e61621..072ac446810 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, extern int C_A_D; extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; +extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; extern int max_threads; extern int sysrq_enabled; extern int core_uses_pid; @@ -701,6 +702,14 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, + { + .ctl_name = VM_PANIC_ON_OOM, + .procname = "panic_on_oom", + .data = &sysctl_panic_on_oom, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_panic_on_oom), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, { .ctl_name = VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO, .procname = "overcommit_ratio", -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2