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After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:52:51 +0000 (10:52 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:12:28 +0000 (13:12 +1000)
commit17405eb133dc37b2e709ccffb5afc513693f74d4
tree1ffe10ab6ddf536b9647f7535f5312bd99c7d0bd
parent064ca4e4fcb9c2cba441a036c68b465fdd01b0a5
After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and
kills all other threads that share the same mm_struct in different thread
groups.  It would not otherwise be helpful to kill a thread if its memory
would not be subsequently freed.

A kernel thread, however, may assume a user thread's mm by using
use_mm().  This is only temporary and should not result in sending a
SIGKILL to that kthread.

This patch ensures that only user threads and not kthreads are sent a
SIGKILL if they share the same mm_struct as the oom killed task.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c