The patch titled Subject: mm: oom: do not reap task if there are live threads in threadgroup has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: oom: do not reap task if there are live threads in threadgroup If the current process is exiting, we don't invoke oom killer, instead we give it access to memory reserves and try to reap its mm in case nobody is going to use it. There's a mistake in the code performing this check - we just ignore any process of the same thread group no matter if it is exiting or not - see try_oom_reaper. Fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464087628-7318-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3ef22dfff239 ("oom, oom_reaper: try to reap tasks which skip regular OOM killer path")Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -611,8 +611,6 @@ void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct * if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm)) continue; - if (same_thread_group(p, tsk)) - continue; if (fatal_signal_pending(p)) continue; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-oom-do-not-reap-task-if-there-are-live-threads-in-threadgroup.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html