When we get into a state where VM has ran out of memory, and it's time to thwack a process, we should take out the entire process group, rather than just one thread.
Tested on POWER5. Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 03aeb3a..9afe871 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -392,8 +392,10 @@ out_of_memory: goto survive; } printk("VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm); - if (user_mode(regs)) + if (user_mode(regs)) { + zap_other_threads(current); do_exit(SIGKILL); + } return SIGKILL; do_sigbus: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/