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authorArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>2012-01-13 22:21:25 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-08 14:14:14 -0800
commite5d7965f88a3755b2d0c54768a17032ab3a72819 (patch)
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staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Don't wait more than one second for a process to die
If a process forked and the child process was killed by the lowmemorykiller, the lowmemory killer would be disabled until the parent process reaped the child or it died itself. Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
index 2d8d2b796101..efc7dc1f4831 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static size_t lowmem_minfree[6] = {
static int lowmem_minfree_size = 4;
static struct task_struct *lowmem_deathpending;
+static unsigned long lowmem_deathpending_timeout;
#define lowmem_print(level, x...) \
do { \
@@ -103,7 +104,8 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
* Note: Currently you need CONFIG_PROFILING
* for this to work correctly.
*/
- if (lowmem_deathpending)
+ if (lowmem_deathpending &&
+ time_before_eq(jiffies, lowmem_deathpending_timeout))
return 0;
if (lowmem_adj_size < array_size)
@@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
lowmem_deathpending = selected;
+ lowmem_deathpending_timeout = jiffies + HZ;
task_handoff_register(&task_nb);
#endif
force_sig(SIGKILL, selected);