mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+f
The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:
- an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
and
- an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.
SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.
For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 572b93e..98552cf 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@
goto out;
}
/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
- out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, nodemask);
+ out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, nodemask, false);
out:
clear_zonelist_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask);