I would really suggest you to stick with the changelog I have suggested. On Wed 01-11-17 20:54:27, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c > index 26add8a..118ecdb 100644 > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c > @@ -870,6 +870,19 @@ static void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, const char *message) > } > task_unlock(p); > > + /* > + * Try really last second allocation attempt after we selected an OOM > + * victim, for somebody might have managed to free memory while we were > + * selecting an OOM victim which can take quite some time. > + */ > + if (oc->ac) { > + oc->page = alloc_pages_before_oomkill(oc); I would stick the oc->ac check inside alloc_pages_before_oomkill. > + if (oc->page) { > + put_task_struct(p); > + return; > + } > + } > + > if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs)) > dump_header(oc, p); > > @@ -1081,6 +1094,16 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc) > select_bad_process(oc); > /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */ > if (!oc->chosen && !is_sysrq_oom(oc) && !is_memcg_oom(oc)) { > + /* > + * Try really last second allocation attempt, for somebody > + * might have managed to free memory while we were trying to > + * find an OOM victim. > + */ > + if (oc->ac) { > + oc->page = alloc_pages_before_oomkill(oc); > + if (oc->page) > + return true; > + } > dump_header(oc, NULL); > panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n"); > } Also, is there any strong reason to not do the last allocation after select_bad_process rather than having two call sites? I would understand that if you wanted to catch for_each_thread inside oom_kill_process but you are not doing that. [...] -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>