From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:30:11 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklist
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc1~376
X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30e2b41f20b6238f51e7cffb879c7a0f0073f5fe;hp=3a5dda7a17cf3706f79b86293f29db02d61e0d48;p=linux-2.6-block.git

oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklist

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 <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index b5a7b5f46e7a..d7f345e47e73 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
 	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_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
 		 * 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);