linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rh6] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

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Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:41:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rh6] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Andrey Vagin wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 7dcca55..2fc554e 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
>  		 * blocked waiting for another task which itself is waiting
>  		 * for memory. Is there a better alternative?
>  		 */
> -		if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE))
> +		if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE) && p->mm)
>  			return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
>  
>  		/*

I think it would be better to just do

	if (!p->mm)
		continue;

after the check for oom_unkillable_task() because everything that follows 
this really depends on p->mm being non-NULL to actually do anything 
useful.
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