David Rientjes 5e9d834a0e oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent ... When a task is chosen for oom kill, the oom killer first attempts to sacrifice a child not sharing its parent's memory instead. Unfortunately, this often kills in a seemingly random fashion based on the ordering of the selected task's child list. Additionally, it is not guaranteed at all to free a large amount of memory that we need to prevent additional oom killing in the very near future. Instead, we now only attempt to sacrifice the worst child not sharing its parent's memory, if one exists. The worst child is indicated with the highest badness() score. This serves two advantages: we kill a memory-hogging task more often, and we allow the configurable /proc/pid/oom_adj value to be considered as a factor in which child to kill. Reviewers may observe that the previous implementation would iterate through the children and attempt to kill each until one was successful and then the parent if none were found while the new code simply kills the most memory-hogging task or the parent. Note that the only time oom_kill_task() fails, however, is when a child does not have an mm or has a /proc/pid/oom_adj of OOM_DISABLE. badness() returns 0 for both cases, so the final oom_kill_task() will always succeed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
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backing-dev.c	Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip	2010-08-06 09:23:07 -07:00
bootmem.c	x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
bounce.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c	mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed	2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c	dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools()	2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c	readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM	2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse	2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
fremap.c	mm: clean up mm_counter	2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c	mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage	2010-08-05 09:22:24 -05:00
hugetlb.c	hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow	2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c	HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled	2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c	mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer	2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h	HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters	2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
Kconfig.debug	trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options	2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c	kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ksm.c	mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root	2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
maccess.c	maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write)	2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c	HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining	2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memblock.c	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: fix wake up in oom wait queue	2010-06-29 15:29:30 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone	2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
memory-failure.c	KVM: Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address()	2010-08-01 10:47:11 +03:00
memory.c	mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area	2010-07-30 18:56:09 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol	2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
mempool.c	mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool	2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c	mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root	2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mincore.c	mincore: do nested page table walks	2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c	x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code	2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c	mm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma	2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mmu_context.c	exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss	2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c	sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions	2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c	nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices	2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c	oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent	2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
page_alloc.c	x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
page_cgroup.c	kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup()	2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c	writeback: remove writeback_inodes_wbc	2010-07-06 08:54:03 +02:00
pagewalk.c	pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage	2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu_up.c	percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation	2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c	percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c	2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c	percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online	2010-06-27 18:50:00 +02:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c	readahead.c: fix comment	2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root	2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
shmem.c	fix truncate inode time modification breakage	2010-06-04 17:16:30 -04:00
slab.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6	2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slob.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6	2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slub.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6	2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c	sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too	2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c	mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules	2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6	2010-05-21 15:26:46 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c	fs: introduce new truncate sequence	2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
util.c	mm: use memdup_user	2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmalloc.c	mm: use ERR_CAST	2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmscan.c	mm/vmscan.c: fix mapping use after free	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation fails	2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00