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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2011-10-31 17:07:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:45 -0700
commitc9f01245b6a7d77d17deaa71af10f6aca14fa24e (patch)
tree13ffde591a5bcefba39cb6393f09b27f1ebc1a30 /include
parent7b0d44fa49b1dcfdcf4897f12ddd12ddeab1a9d7 (diff)
oom: remove oom_disable_count
This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and currently buggy. The counter was intended to be per-process but it's currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing it to underflow. The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to future memory freeing. The counter could be fixed to represent all threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since: - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause future memory freeing, and - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index c93d00a6e95d..6456624aa964 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -336,9 +336,6 @@ struct mm_struct {
unsigned int token_priority;
unsigned int last_interval;
- /* How many tasks sharing this mm are OOM_DISABLE */
- atomic_t oom_disable_count;
-
unsigned long flags; /* Must use atomic bitops to access the bits */
struct core_state *core_state; /* coredumping support */