The patch titled oom: clean up oom_badness() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-clean-up-oom_badness.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oom: clean up oom_badness() From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> oom_badness() no longer uses its uptime formal, so it can be removed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 5 +---- include/linux/oom.h | 3 +-- mm/oom_kill.c | 12 +++--------- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~oom-clean-up-oom_badness fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~oom-clean-up-oom_badness +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -444,9 +444,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer) { unsigned long points = 0; - struct timespec uptime; - do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); if (pid_alive(task)) points = oom_badness(task->group_leader, @@ -454,8 +452,7 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct task_st global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON) + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE) + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE) + - total_swap_pages, - uptime.tv_sec); + total_swap_pages); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", points); } diff -puN include/linux/oom.h~oom-clean-up-oom_badness include/linux/oom.h --- a/include/linux/oom.h~oom-clean-up-oom_badness +++ a/include/linux/oom.h @@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ enum oom_constraint { CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY, }; -extern int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, - unsigned long totalpages, unsigned long uptime); +extern int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages); extern int try_set_zone_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags); diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-clean-up-oom_badness mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-clean-up-oom_badness +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -149,14 +149,12 @@ static unsigned long oom_forkbomb_penalt * oom_badness - heuristic function to determine which candidate task to kill * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate * @totalpages: total present RAM allowed for page allocation - * @uptime: current uptime in seconds * * The heuristic for determining which task to kill is made to be as simple and * predictable as possible. The goal is to return the highest value for the * task consuming the most memory to avoid subsequent oom conditions. */ -int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages, - unsigned long uptime) +int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages) { int points; @@ -294,10 +292,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr { struct task_struct *p; struct task_struct *chosen = NULL; - struct timespec uptime; *ppoints = 0; - do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); for_each_process(p) { int points; @@ -344,7 +340,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) continue; - points = oom_badness(p, totalpages, uptime.tv_sec); + points = oom_badness(p, totalpages); if (points >= 0 && (points > *ppoints || !chosen)) { chosen = p; *ppoints = points; @@ -448,7 +444,6 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ struct task_struct *victim = p; struct task_struct *c; unsigned int victim_points = 0; - struct timespec uptime; if (printk_ratelimit()) dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, mem); @@ -465,7 +460,6 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) with score %d or sacrifice child\n", message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points); - do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); /* Try to sacrifice the worst child first */ list_for_each_entry(c, &p->children, sibling) { unsigned int cpoints; @@ -476,7 +470,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ continue; /* oom_badness() returns 0 if the thread is unkillable */ - cpoints = oom_badness(c, totalpages, uptime.tv_sec); + cpoints = oom_badness(c, totalpages); if (cpoints > victim_points) { victim = c; victim_points = cpoints; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch acpi-map-pxms-to-low-node-ids.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-code.patch oom-filter-tasks-not-sharing-the-same-cpuset.patch oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent.patch oom-select-task-from-tasklist-for-mempolicy-ooms.patch oom-remove-special-handling-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-badness-heuristic-rewrite.patch oom-deprecate-oom_adj-tunable.patch oom-replace-sysctls-with-quick-mode.patch oom-avoid-oom-killer-for-lowmem-allocations.patch oom-remove-unnecessary-code-and-cleanup.patch oom-default-to-killing-current-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit.patch oom-select_bad_process-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch oom-select_bad_process-pf_exiting-check-should-take-mm-into-account.patch oom-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives.patch oom-oom_forkbomb_penalty-move-thread_group_cputime-out-of-task_lock.patch oom-hold-tasklist_lock-when-dumping-tasks.patch oom-give-current-access-to-memory-reserves-if-it-has-been-killed.patch oom-avoid-sending-exiting-tasks-a-sigkill.patch oom-clean-up-oom_kill_task.patch oom-clean-up-oom_badness.patch mempolicy-remove-case-mpol_interleave-from-policy_zonelist.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-check.patch mempolicy-dont-call-mpol_set_nodemask-when-no_context.patch mempolicy-lose-unnecessary-loop-variable-in-mpol_parse_str.patch mempolicy-rename-policy_types-and-cleanup-initialization.patch mempolicy-factor-mpol_shared_policy_init-return-paths.patch mempolicy-document-cpuset-interaction-with-tmpfs-mpol-mount-option.patch mm-default-to-node-zonelist-ordering-when-nodes-have-only-lowmem.patch oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter-update.patch memcg-oom-notifier.patch memcg-oom-notifier-update.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status-update.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