An oom_badness() score of 0 means "never kill" according to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, so explicitly exclude it from being selected for kill. These tasks have either detached their p->mm or are set to OOM_DISABLE. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints, continue; points = oom_badness(p, totalpages); + if (!points) + continue; if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) { chosen = p; *ppoints = points; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>