Re: [PATCH] oom, memcg: handle sysctl oom_kill_allocating_task whilememcg oom happening

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 02:12:24 EST


On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Sha Zhengju wrote:

> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sysctl oom_kill_allocating_task enables or disables killing the OOM-triggering
> task in out-of-memory situations, but it only works on overall system-wide oom.
> But it's also a useful indication in memcg so we take it into consideration
> while oom happening in memcg. Other sysctl such as panic_on_oom has already
> been memcg-ware.
>

You're working on an old kernel, mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() has moved to
mm/memcontrol.c. Please rebase on 3.7-rc1 and send an updated patch,
which otherwise looks good.
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