From 35451beecbd7c86ce3249d543594517a5fe9a0cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:02:27 -0700 Subject: ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs Just as the swapoff system call allocates many pages of RAM to various processes, perhaps triggering OOM, so "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" (unmerge) is liable to allocate many pages of RAM to various processes, perhaps triggering OOM; and each is normally run from a modest admin process (swapoff or shell), easily repeated until it succeeds. So treat unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() in the same way that we treat try_to_unuse(): generalize PF_SWAPOFF to PF_OOM_ORIGIN, and bracket both with that, to ask the OOM killer to kill them first, to prevent them from spawning more and more OOM kills. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Izik Eidus Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 8f3e63cb33a..899d7304d59 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ extern cputime_t task_gtime(struct task_struct *p); #define PF_FROZEN 0x00010000 /* frozen for system suspend */ #define PF_FSTRANS 0x00020000 /* inside a filesystem transaction */ #define PF_KSWAPD 0x00040000 /* I am kswapd */ -#define PF_SWAPOFF 0x00080000 /* I am in swapoff */ +#define PF_OOM_ORIGIN 0x00080000 /* Allocating much memory to others */ #define PF_LESS_THROTTLE 0x00100000 /* Throttle me less: I clean memory */ #define PF_KTHREAD 0x00200000 /* I am a kernel thread */ #define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* randomize virtual address space */ -- cgit