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| author | David Rientjes | 2012-03-21 16:34:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -0700 |
| commit | 08ab9b10d43aca091fdff58b69fc1ec89c5b8a83 (patch) | |
| tree | 73abfd3a257f3feadc0fa28c3117aaa9d95af596 /include/linux | |
| parent | b76437579d1344b612cf1851ae610c636cec7db0 (diff) | |
mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+f
The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:
- an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
and
- an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.
SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.
For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/oom.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h index 552fba9c7d5a..3d7647536b03 100644 --- a/include/linux/oom.h +++ b/include/linux/oom.h @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern int try_set_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, - int order, nodemask_t *mask); + int order, nodemask_t *mask, bool force_kill); extern int register_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int unregister_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); |