mm: oom_kill: don't ignore oom score on exiting tasks
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:17:26 +0000 (14:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:09:34 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
When the OOM killer scans tasks and encounters a PF_EXITING one, it
force-selects that task regardless of the score.  The problem is that if
that task got stuck waiting for some state the allocation site is
holding, the OOM reaper can not move on to the next best victim.

Frankly, I don't even know why we check for exiting tasks in the OOM
killer.  We've tried direct reclaim at least 15 times by the time we
decide the system is OOM, there was plenty of time to exit and free
memory; and a task might exit voluntarily right after we issue a kill.
This is testing pure noise.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c

index e97a05d9621f47425a25f88fb9c0ae8fbd50004b..63ced708eafd1686feaae600fc5a13f7adb3b7c9 100644 (file)
@@ -287,9 +287,6 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct oom_control *oc,
        if (oom_task_origin(task))
                return OOM_SCAN_SELECT;
 
-       if (task_will_free_mem(task) && !is_sysrq_oom(oc))
-               return OOM_SCAN_ABORT;
-
        return OOM_SCAN_OK;
 }