Commit f2a2a710 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] oom: less memdie

Don't cause all threads in all other thread groups to gain TIF_MEMDIE
otherwise we'll get a thundering herd eating our memory reserve.  This may not
be the optimal scheme, but it fits our policy of allowing just one TIF_MEMDIE
in the system at once.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent f3af38d3
......@@ -323,11 +323,12 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
/*
* kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
* but are in a different thread group.
* but are in a different thread group. Don't let them have access
* to memory reserves though, otherwise we might deplete all memory.
*/
do_each_thread(g, q) {
if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
__oom_kill_task(q, 1);
force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
} while_each_thread(g, q);
return 0;
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