linux-kernel - [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:32:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite

This patchset is a rewrite of the out of memory killer to address several
issues that have been raised recently.  The most notable change is a
complete rewrite of the badness heuristic that determines which task is
killed; the goal was to make it as simple and predictable as possible
while still addressing issues that plague the VM.

This patchset is based on mmotm-2010-02-05-15-06 because of the following
dependencies:

	[patch 4/7] oom: badness heuristic rewrite:
		mm-count-swap-usage.patch

	[patch 5/7] oom: replace sysctls with quick mode:
		sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-delcarations.patch

To apply to mainline, download 2.6.33-rc7 and apply

	mm-clean-up-mm_counter.patch
	mm-avoid-false-sharing-of-mm_counter.patch
	mm-avoid-false_sharing-of-mm_counter-checkpatch-fixes.patch
	mm-count-swap-usage.patch
	mm-count-swap-usage-checkpatch-fixes.patch
	mm-introduce-dump_page-and-print-symbolic-flag-names.patch
	sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations.patch
	sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations-fix.patch

from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out.tar.gz first.
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   78 ++++---
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt        |   51 ++---
 fs/proc/base.c                     |   13 +-
 include/linux/mempolicy.h          |   13 +-
 include/linux/oom.h                |   18 +-
 kernel/sysctl.c                    |   15 +-
 mm/mempolicy.c                     |   39 +++
 mm/oom_kill.c                      |  455 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 mm/page_alloc.c                    |    3 +
 9 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 302 deletions(-)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/