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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2013-08-08 12:56:32 +1000
committerDan Willemsen <dwillemsen@nvidia.com>2013-09-14 13:44:02 -0700
commitc5ffca3f2332a408e9d216925d5d732ed67abcc7 (patch)
treead7a1d7049ea416bae349349b3f88be8278d033c /mm/memcontrol.c
parentaf141cc49eb867c7f885052b29006de44c6d19e9 (diff)
UPSTREAM mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults
System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM. Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the only option available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 31d1d8b2aa8733b4fe221b4bcbaa15aec3582b99) Change-Id: If84752f6c46e464bc0d1d868ac543497425ba7cc Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/266405 GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit Reviewed-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Sachin Nikam <snikam@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 82a187aea4c0..4e3441e37d32 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
return CHARGE_RETRY;
/* If we don't need to call oom-killer at el, return immediately */
- if (!oom_check)
+ if (!oom_check || !current->memcg_oom.may_oom)
return CHARGE_NOMEM;
/* check OOM */
if (!mem_cgroup_handle_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(csize)))