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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2006-06-23 02:03:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-23 07:42:47 -0700 |
| commit | fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b (patch) | |
| tree | 547cdee6203b769773521118a4dd19e95a7ef3fd /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 67de648211fa041fe08a0c25241a4980bbb90698 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b.tar.gz lwn-fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b.zip | |
[PATCH] support for panic at OOM
This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.
When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue
processes. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in
the same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only
root can modifies it.
In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole
system can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable
rather than kill some processes.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 0d656e61621d..072ac446810a 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, extern int C_A_D; extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; +extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; extern int max_threads; extern int sysrq_enabled; extern int core_uses_pid; @@ -702,6 +703,14 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, { + .ctl_name = VM_PANIC_ON_OOM, + .procname = "panic_on_oom", + .data = &sysctl_panic_on_oom, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_panic_on_oom), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { .ctl_name = VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO, .procname = "overcommit_ratio", .data = &sysctl_overcommit_ratio, |