linux-kernel - [rfc][patch 0/5] 2.6.19-rc1: oom killer fixes

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:09:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [rfc][patch 0/5] 2.6.19-rc1: oom killer fixes

I've been prompted to take another look through the OOM killer because it
turns out it is killing tasks that have had their oom_adj set to -17 (which
is supposed to make them unkillable).

So there are a number of problems, firstly, the child and sibling thread
killing routines do not account for -17 children/siblings.

Secondly, most architecture specific pagefault handlers do a direct kill
of the current process if it takes a VM_FAULT_OOM. This is a pretty rare
thing to happen, because there isn't a lot of higher order allocations
happening, but it is not impossible. I think we can just call into the
OOM killer here, and return to userspace... but I'd like comments about
this.

Thanks,
Nick
--
SuSE Labs

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