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Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 93b43fa550 oom: give the dying task a higher priority 
In a system under heavy load it was observed that even after the
oom-killer selects a task to die, the task may take a long time to die.

Right after sending a SIGKILL to the task selected by the oom-killer this
task has its priority increased so that it can exit() soon, freeing
memory.  That is accomplished by:

        /*
         * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
         * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
         * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
         */
 	p->rt.time_slice = HZ;
 	set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);

It sounds plausible giving the dying task an even higher priority to be
sure it will be scheduled sooner and free the desired memory.  It was
suggested on LKML using SCHED_FIFO:1, the lowest RT priority so that this
task won't interfere with any running RT task.

If the dying task is already an RT task, leave it untouched.  Another good
suggestion, implemented here, was to avoid boosting the dying task
priority in case of mem_cgroup OOM.

Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
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backing-dev.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 09:23:07 -07:00
bootmem.c x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used 2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
bounce.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
fremap.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage 2010-08-05 09:22:24 -05:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ksm.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memblock.c lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memcontrol.c vmscan: kill prev_priority completely 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone 2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
memory-failure.c KVM: Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address() 2010-08-01 10:47:11 +03:00
memory.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages() 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mincore.c mincore: do nested page table walks 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmap: remove unnecessary lock from __vma_link 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices 2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: give the dying task a higher priority 2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
page_alloc.c vmscan: kill prev_priority completely 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00
page_cgroup.c kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup() 2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging 2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu_up.c percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online 2010-06-27 18:50:00 +02:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c rmap: add anon_vma bug checks 2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
shmem.c shmem: reduce pagefault lock contention 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
slab.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
slob.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too 2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules 2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6 2010-05-21 15:26:46 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c fs: introduce new truncate sequence 2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
util.c mm: use memdup_user 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: use ERR_CAST 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmscan.c vmscan: update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list() 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00
vmstat.c vmscan: kill prev_priority completely 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00