[PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

From: Patrick O'Rourke (orourke@missioncriticallinux.com)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 17:54:52 EST

Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
from picking init.

Pat

--- xxx/linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Tue Nov 14 13:56:46 2000
+++ linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Wed Mar 21 15:25:03 2001
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@

         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
         for_each_task(p) {
- if (p->pid) {
+ if (p->pid && p->pid != 1) {
                         int points = badness(p);
                         if (points > maxpoints) {
                                 chosen = p; 

-- 
Patrick O'Rourke
978.606.0236
orourke@missioncriticallinux.com

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