Andrea, I just successfully tested the patch on my environment. It actually resolved OOM-killer problem for my iscsid.
Important note: daemon's parent must be init. In my test, OOM-killer killed everything around but iscsid, and iscsid successfully finished registration of new SCSI host in the middle of crazy OOM-killer :) Thanks! Dima On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 00:14 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hello, > > some private discussion (that was continuing some kernel-summit-discuss > thread) ended in the below patch. I also liked a textual "disable" > instead of value "-17" (internally to the kernel it could be represented > the same way, but the /proc parsing would be more complicated). If you > prefer textual "disable" we can change this of course. > > Comments welcome. > > From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: oom killer protection > > iscsi/lvm2/multipath needs guaranteed protection from the oom-killer. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- 2.6.12-seccomp/fs/proc/base.c.~1~ 2005-03-25 05:13:28.000000000 +0100 > +++ 2.6.12-seccomp/fs/proc/base.c 2005-04-01 23:47:22.000000000 +0200 > @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static ssize_t oom_adjust_write(struct f > if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count)) > return -EFAULT; > oom_adjust = simple_strtol(buffer, &end, 0); > - if (oom_adjust < -16 || oom_adjust > 15) > + if ((oom_adjust < -16 || oom_adjust > 15) && oom_adjust != OOM_DISABLE) > return -EINVAL; > if (*end == '\n') > end++; > --- 2.6.12-seccomp/include/linux/mm.h.~1~ 2005-03-25 05:13:28.000000000 > +0100 > +++ 2.6.12-seccomp/include/linux/mm.h 2005-04-01 23:53:11.000000000 +0200 > @@ -856,5 +856,8 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long a > #define in_gate_area(task, addr) ({(void)task; in_gate_area_no_task(addr);}) > #endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */ > > +/* /proc/<pid>/oom_adj set to -17 protects from the oom-killer */ > +#define OOM_DISABLE -17 > + > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ > #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */ > --- 2.6.12-seccomp/mm/oom_kill.c.~1~ 2005-03-08 01:02:30.000000000 +0100 > +++ 2.6.12-seccomp/mm/oom_kill.c 2005-04-01 23:46:18.000000000 +0200 > @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static struct task_struct * select_bad_p > do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); > do_each_thread(g, p) > /* skip the init task with pid == 1 */ > - if (p->pid > 1) { > + if (p->pid > 1 && p->oomkilladj != OOM_DISABLE) { > unsigned long points; > > /* > - > 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/ - 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/