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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2011-10-31 17:07:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:45 -0700
commit7b0d44fa49b1dcfdcf4897f12ddd12ddeab1a9d7 (patch)
treec840608f5266e4ba783f4c4405efe89b69ae5754 /mm
parentf660daac474c6f7c2d710100e29b3276a6f4db0a (diff)
oom: avoid killing kthreads if they assume the oom killed thread's mm
After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and kills all other threads that share the same mm_struct in different thread groups. It would not otherwise be helpful to kill a thread if its memory would not be subsequently freed. A kernel thread, however, may assume a user thread's mm by using use_mm(). This is only temporary and should not result in sending a SIGKILL to that kthread. This patch ensures that only user threads and not kthreads are sent a SIGKILL if they share the same mm_struct as the oom killed task. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index d897262068e2..b0d8943bc9fd 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
task_unlock(p);
/*
- * Kill all processes sharing p->mm in other thread groups, if any.
+ * Kill all user processes sharing p->mm in other thread groups, if any.
* They don't get access to memory reserves or a higher scheduler
* priority, though, to avoid depletion of all memory or task
* starvation. This prevents mm->mmap_sem livelock when an oom killed
@@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
* signal.
*/
for_each_process(q)
- if (q->mm == mm && !same_thread_group(q, p)) {
+ if (q->mm == mm && !same_thread_group(q, p) &&
+ !(q->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
task_lock(q); /* Protect ->comm from prctl() */
pr_err("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n",
task_pid_nr(q), q->comm);