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author | KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-08-18 14:11:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-18 16:31:13 -0700 |
commit | 0753ba01e126020bf0f8150934903b48935b697d (patch) | |
tree | fbfd7e2d0abbe724a8c5e0e17fb9af522ed2e097 /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | 89a4eb4b66e8f4d395e14a14d262dac4d6ca52f0 (diff) | |
download | lwn-0753ba01e126020bf0f8150934903b48935b697d.tar.gz lwn-0753ba01e126020bf0f8150934903b48935b697d.zip |
mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct. It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.
However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler. Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.
Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.
...
set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
...
if (vfork() == 0) {
set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
execve("foo-bar-cmd");
}
....
vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct. then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent. Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.
Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.
Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.
Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 021e1138556e..144326b7af50 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -426,7 +426,6 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p) init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist); mm->flags = (current->mm) ? current->mm->flags : default_dump_filter; - mm->oom_adj = (current->mm) ? current->mm->oom_adj : 0; mm->core_state = NULL; mm->nr_ptes = 0; set_mm_counter(mm, file_rss, 0); |