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oom: avoid killing kthreads if they assume the oom killed thread's mm
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:42:49 +0000 (11:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 6 Oct 2011 05:59:37 +0000 (16:59 +1100)
commit8fb2d6fcc5bbe579dad2fc5f5d36ad882c82d0c5
tree4f55bb9a006a4cfa8a3209d0a5287efcaa57be3e
parentb78af3725c4f8db4ca17ef8338331717d8f93441
oom: avoid killing kthreads if they assume the oom killed thread's mm

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