At various times in the past, we've had reports where users have been
convinced that the oomkiller was too heavy handed. I added this sysctl
mostly as a knob for them to see that the kernel really doesn't do much better
without killing something.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 5e3aa83..79a27b4 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -72,5 +72,6 @@ extern struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p);
extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
+extern int sysctl_would_have_oomkilled;
#endif /* __KERNEL__*/
#endif /* _INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 5abfa15..a0fed6d 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1000,6 +1000,13 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
{
+ .procname = "would_have_oomkilled",
+ .data = &sysctl_would_have_oomkilled,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_would_have_oomkilled),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
+ {
.procname = "overcommit_ratio",
.data = &sysctl_overcommit_ratio,
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_ratio),
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 7dcca55..281ac39 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
+int sysctl_would_have_oomkilled;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -477,6 +478,13 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
}
task_lock(p);
+ if (sysctl_would_have_oomkilled) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: would have killed process %d (%s), but continuing instead...\n",
+ __func__, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm);
+ task_unlock(p);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %d or sacrifice child\n",
message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);
task_unlock(p);
--
1.7.3.2
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