On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:21 AM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The OOM kill sysrq (alt+sysrq+F) should allow the user to kill the > process with the highest OOM badness with a single execution. > > However, at the moment, the OOM kill can bail out if an OOM notifier > (e.g. the i915 one) says that it reclaimed a tiny amount of memory > from somewhere. That's probably not what the user wants. > > As documented in struct oom_control, order == -1 means the oom kill is > required by sysrq. So check for that, and if it's true, don't bail out > no matter what the OOM notifiers say. Er, sorry, I just noticed after sending this that the commit message doesn't make sense anymore... I'll send a new version in a sec.
