memcg: avoid unnecessary system-wide-oom-killer
authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:08:08 +0000 (18:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:31:06 +0000 (08:31 -0800)
commita636b327f731143ccc544b966cfd8de6cb6d72c6
treee53b03b64e8ebca20649c2d877bc4c3ef54ec34c
parent2e4d40915fb85207fe48cfc31201824ec6d7426e
memcg: avoid unnecessary system-wide-oom-killer

Current mmtom has new oom function as pagefault_out_of_memory().  It's
added for select bad process rathar than killing current.

When memcg hit limit and calls OOM at page_fault, this handler called and
system-wide-oom handling happens.  (means kernel panics if panic_on_oom is
true....)

To avoid overkill, check memcg's recent behavior before starting
system-wide-oom.

And this patch also fixes to guarantee "don't accnout against process with
TIF_MEMDIE".  This is necessary for smooth OOM.

[[email protected]: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Blunck <[email protected]>
Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/oom_kill.c