[PATCH] oom: don't kill current when another OOM in progress
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:01:14 +0000 (02:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:18:21 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
commitb78483a4ba60d5d90930262a533a784e1d9df660
tree0b2cb0f3cf2852bf4138c13179221e58a37f402a
parent01017a227044d64face2588fab9427a1da1bdb9f
[PATCH] oom: don't kill current when another OOM in progress

A previous patch to allow an exiting task to OOM kill itself (and thereby
avoid a little deadlock) introduced a problem.  We don't want the
PF_EXITING task, even if it is 'current', to access mem reserves if there
is already a TIF_MEMDIE process in the system sucking up reserves.

Also make the commenting a little bit clearer, and note that our current
scheme of effectively single threading the OOM killer is not itself
perfect.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/oom_kill.c