mm, oom: do not emit oom killer warning if chosen thread is already exiting
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:33:47 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:54:55 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
commit8447d950e7445cae71ad66d0e33784f8388aaf9d
treeb7f7cfba3d2264b87ca168131e0a65d89faa51a8
parent647f2bdf4a00dbcaa8964286501d68e7d2e6da93
mm, oom: do not emit oom killer warning if chosen thread is already exiting

If a thread is chosen for oom kill and is already PF_EXITING, then the oom
killer simply sets TIF_MEMDIE and returns.  This allows the thread to have
access to memory reserves so that it may quickly exit.  This logic is
preceeded with a comment saying there's no need to alarm the sysadmin.
This patch adds truth to that statement.

There's no need to emit any warning about the oom condition if the thread
is already exiting since it will not be killed.  In this condition, just
silently return the oom killer since its only giving access to memory
reserves and is otherwise a no-op.

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c