From 0753ba01e126020bf0f8150934903b48935b697d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:11:10 -0700 Subject: mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value" The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to the mm_struct. It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM. However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job scheduler. Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process. Why? His program has the code of similar to the following. ... set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */ ... if (vfork() == 0) { set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */ execve("foo-bar-cmd"); } .... vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct. then above set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also change oom_adj for vfork() parent. Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler) lost OOM immune and it was killed. Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program. We must not break this assumption. Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit. Reverted commit list --------------------- - commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct) - commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE) - commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory) - commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time) Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Paul Menage Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 7acc8439d9b3..0042090a4d70 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long saved_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE]; /* for /proc/PID/auxv */ - s8 oom_adj; /* OOM kill score adjustment (bit shift) */ - cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* Architecture-specific MM context */ -- cgit v1.2.3