From 08ab9b10d43aca091fdff58b69fc1ec89c5b8a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:04 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/oom.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h index 552fba9c7d5a..3d7647536b03 100644 --- a/include/linux/oom.h +++ b/include/linux/oom.h @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern int try_set_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, - int order, nodemask_t *mask); + int order, nodemask_t *mask, bool force_kill); extern int register_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int unregister_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); -- cgit