Michal Hocko wrote: > [Fixup Vladimir email address] > > On Mon 03-04-17 10:38:00, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Sun 02-04-17 12:52:55, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > > I noticed that SysRq-f prints > > > > > > "sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled" > > > > > > when no process was selected (rather than when oom killer was disabled). > > > This message was not printed until Linux 4.8 because commit 7c5f64f84483bd13 > > > ("mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom") changed > > > from "return true;" to "return !!oc->chosen;" when is_sysrq_oom(oc) is true. > > > > > > Is this what we meant? > > > > > > [ 713.805315] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution > > > [ 713.808920] Out of memory: Kill process 4468 ((agetty)) score 0 or sacrifice child > > > [ 713.814913] Killed process 4468 ((agetty)) total-vm:43704kB, anon-rss:1760kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB > > > [ 714.004805] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution > > > [ 714.005936] Out of memory: Kill process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) score 0 or sacrifice child > > > [ 714.008117] Killed process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) total-vm:10704kB, anon-rss:120kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB > > > [ 714.189310] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution > > > [ 714.193425] sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled > > > [ 714.381313] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution > > > [ 714.385158] sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled > > > [ 714.573320] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution > > > [ 714.576988] sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled > > > > So, what about this? I thought below change in out_of_memory(). - return !!oc->chosen; + return oc->chosen || is_sysrq_oom(oc); You can take either approach. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>