Re: Memory overcommit

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 00:12:48 EST


On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> I agree quartering is debatable.
> At least, killing quartering is worth for any user, and it can be push into -stable.
>

Not sure where the -stable reference came from, I don't think this is a
candidate.

> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index ea2147d..40d323d 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -152,18 +152,15 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
> /*
> * Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it
> * less likely that we kill those.
> - */
> - if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
> - has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
> - points /= 4;
> -
> - /*
> - * We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access.
> + *
> + * Plus, We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access.
> * Not only could that mess up the hardware, but usually users
> * tend to only have this flag set on applications they think
> * of as important.
> */
> - if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> + if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
> + has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) ||
> + has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> points /= 4;
>
> /*

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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