2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> commit 30e2b41f20b6238f51e7cffb879c7a0f0073f5fe upstream. We shouldn't defer oom killing if a thread has already detached its ->mm and still has TIF_MEMDIE set. Memory needs to be freed, so find kill other threads that pin the same ->mm or find another task to kill. Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr do_each_thread(g, p) { unsigned int points; + if (!p->mm) + continue; if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask)) continue; @@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr * the process of exiting and releasing its resources. * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock. */ - if ((p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) { + if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) { if (p != current) return ERR_PTR(-1UL); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable