linux-kernel - [008/145] memcg: fix oom killing a child process in an other cgroup

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Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:25:41 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: [008/145] memcg: fix oom killing a child process in an other cgroup

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

----------------
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

commit 5a2d41961dd6815b874b5c0afec0ac96cd90eea4 upstream.

Presently the oom-killer is memcg aware and it finds the worst process
from processes under memcg(s) in oom.  Then, it kills victim's child
first.

It may kill a child in another cgroup and may not be any help for
recovery.  And it will break the assumption users have.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/oom_kill.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_
 	list_for_each_entry(c, &p->children, sibling) {
 		if (c->mm == p->mm)
 			continue;
+		if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(c, mem))
+			continue;
 		if (!oom_kill_task(c))
 			return 0;
 	}


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