linux-kernel - [14/55] oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklist

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Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:47:07 -0700
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,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [14/55] oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklist

2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>

commit 30e2b41f20b6238f51e7cffb879c7a0f0073f5fe upstream.

We shouldn't defer oom killing if a thread has already detached its ->mm
and still has TIF_MEMDIE set.  Memory needs to be freed, so find kill
other threads that pin the same ->mm or find another task to kill.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.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 |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr
 	do_each_thread(g, p) {
 		unsigned int points;
 
+		if (!p->mm)
+			continue;
 		if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask))
 			continue;
 
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr
 		 * the process of exiting and releasing its resources.
 		 * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock.
 		 */
-		if ((p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) {
+		if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
 			if (p != current)
 				return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
 


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