linux-kernel - [patch 1/5] oom: don't kill unkillable children or siblings

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:09:43 +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: [patch 1/5] oom: don't kill unkillable children or siblings

Abort the kill if any of our threads have OOM_DISABLE set. Having this test
here also prevents any OOM_DISABLE child of the "selected" process from being
killed.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

Index: linux-2.6/mm/oom_kill.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -312,15 +312,24 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_str
 	if (mm == NULL)
 		return 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't kill the process if any threads are set to OOM_DISABLE
+	 */
+	do_each_thread(g, q) {
+		if (q->mm == mm && p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
+			return 1;
+	} while_each_thread(g, q);
+
 	__oom_kill_task(p, message);
+
 	/*
 	 * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
 	 * but are in a different thread group
 	 */
-	do_each_thread(g, q)
+	do_each_thread(g, q) {
 		if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
 			__oom_kill_task(q, message);
-	while_each_thread(g, q);
+	} while_each_thread(g, q);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-
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