From 2ff05b2b4eac2e63d345fc731ea151a060247f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:32:56 -0700 Subject: oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the mm. If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory freeing. This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct mm_struct. This requires task_lock() on a task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM size for the badness heuristic. This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE. This occurs because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same task during the next retry. Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be necessary. Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since these threads are immune from oom killing already. They simply report an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE. Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 0e80e26ecf2..f4408106fcb 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long saved_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE]; /* for /proc/PID/auxv */ + s8 oom_adj; /* OOM kill score adjustment (bit shift) */ + cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* Architecture-specific MM context */ -- cgit v1.2.3