From 0753ba01e126020bf0f8150934903b48935b697d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:11:10 -0700 Subject: mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value" The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to the mm_struct. It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM. However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job scheduler. Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process. Why? His program has the code of similar to the following. ... set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */ ... if (vfork() == 0) { set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */ execve("foo-bar-cmd"); } .... vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct. then above set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also change oom_adj for vfork() parent. Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler) lost OOM immune and it was killed. Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program. We must not break this assumption. Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit. Reverted commit list --------------------- - commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct) - commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE) - commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory) - commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time) Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Paul Menage Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 021e1138556..144326b7af5 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -426,7 +426,6 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p) init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist); mm->flags = (current->mm) ? current->mm->flags : default_dump_filter; - mm->oom_adj = (current->mm) ? current->mm->oom_adj : 0; mm->core_state = NULL; mm->nr_ptes = 0; set_mm_counter(mm, file_rss, 0); -- cgit v1.2.3