Re: [PATCH] oom: do not kill tasks with oom_score_adjOOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Nov 07 2011 - 17:18:50 EST


On Mon 07-11-11 13:54:38, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > index e916168..4883514 100644
> > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > @@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
> > if (!p)
> > return 0;
> >
> > + if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > /*
> > * The memory controller may have a limit of 0 bytes, so avoid a divide
> > * by zero, if necessary.
>
> This leaves p locked, you need to do task_unlock(p) first.

Yes, right you are. Thanks for spotting this out.

>
> Once that's fixed, please add my
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> and resubmit to Andrew for the 3.2 rc series. Thanks!

Andrew, could you push this for 3.2 (bugfix for post 3.1 kernel).

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