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[PATCH] oom: swapoff tasks tweak

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PF_SWAPOFF processes currently cause select_bad_process to return straight
away.  Instead, give them high priority, so we will kill them first, however
we also first ensure no parallel OOM kills are happening at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin 2006-09-25 23:31:31 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4a3ede107e
commit af5b912435
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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mm/oom_kill.c
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@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
return 0;
}
/*
* swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
*/
if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
return ULONG_MAX;
/*
* The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
*/
@ -230,8 +236,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints)
}
if (p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
continue;
if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
return p;
points = badness(p, uptime.tv_sec);
if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) {