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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-09-21 17:02:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:33 -0700 |
| commit | 35451beecbd7c86ce3249d543594517a5fe9a0cd (patch) | |
| tree | e72759e6e6fcd142ab85c607a9b3dd3e1c016eed /mm/swapfile.c | |
| parent | a913e182ab9484308e870af37a14d372742d53b0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-35451beecbd7c86ce3249d543594517a5fe9a0cd.tar.gz lwn-35451beecbd7c86ce3249d543594517a5fe9a0cd.zip | |
ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs
Just as the swapoff system call allocates many pages of RAM to various
processes, perhaps triggering OOM, so "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run"
(unmerge) is liable to allocate many pages of RAM to various processes,
perhaps triggering OOM; and each is normally run from a modest admin
process (swapoff or shell), easily repeated until it succeeds.
So treat unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() in the same way that we treat
try_to_unuse(): generalize PF_SWAPOFF to PF_OOM_ORIGIN, and bracket both
with that, to ask the OOM killer to kill them first, to prevent them from
spawning more and more OOM kills.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 74f1102e8749..f1bf19daadc6 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -1575,9 +1575,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile) p->flags &= ~SWP_WRITEOK; spin_unlock(&swap_lock); - current->flags |= PF_SWAPOFF; + current->flags |= PF_OOM_ORIGIN; err = try_to_unuse(type); - current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPOFF; + current->flags &= ~PF_OOM_ORIGIN; if (err) { /* re-insert swap space back into swap_list */ |