oom: avoid killing kthreads if they assume the oom killed thread's mm
authorDavid Rientjes <[email protected]>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:07:11 +0000 (17:07 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:30:45 +0000 (17:30 -0700)
commit7b0d44fa49b1dcfdcf4897f12ddd12ddeab1a9d7
treec840608f5266e4ba783f4c4405efe89b69ae5754
parentf660daac474c6f7c2d710100e29b3276a6f4db0a
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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/oom_kill.c