On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Look at select_bad_process(), and the ->mm test in badness(). pdflush
> can never be chosen.
> Nevertheless, there have been several report where kernel threads _are_
> being hit my the oom killer. Any idea why that is?
The badness() check isn't good enough. If badness() returns 0 for all
processes with pid's > 0 and the first one seen is a kernel thread the
kernel thread will be chosen. In principle, one could merely retarget
chosen with points >= maxpoints, but that's trivially defeated by
kernel threads landing at the highest pid for whatever reason.
-- wli
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