linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] copy over oom

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] copy over oom_adj value at fork time

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Actually, if we assume the administrator is really stupid, he can mark
> all processes as OOM_DISABLE. it makes livelock anyway.

Wrong, the oom killer will panic the machine if there are no eligible 
tasks to kill.  That's actually a more desirable result in most 
circumstances over livelocking.

> ITOH, we never seen this livelock on vfork()ed application.
> 

I have, which is why I wrote my patches.

> More important thing is: Documentation/filesysmtem/proc/txt says
> oom_adj is process property and vfork()ed parent and child are definitelly
> another process.
> 

I've proposed adding /proc/pid/oom_adj_child so that newly initialized 
mm's start with a default oom_adj value.  Paul suggested that it be a 
per-task characteristic, so that's what I'm looking at implementing.

Thanks.
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