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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2007-01-05 16:37:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2007-01-05 23:55:29 -0800
commit7ba3485947ee7bc89a17f86250fe9b692a615dff (patch)
tree77fce78136f040d9382f1b27687478bbcbec051a /mm
parentc8af57eb76fbd70c7f5b421b065fd55d096e2bff (diff)
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[PATCH] fix OOM killing of swapoff
These days, if you swapoff when there isn't enough memory, OOM killer gives "BUG: scheduling while atomic" and the machine hangs: badness() needs to do its PF_SWAPOFF return after the task_unlock (tasklist_lock is also held here, so p isn't going to be freed: PF_SWAPOFF might get turned off at any moment, but that doesn't really matter). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 6969cfb33901..b278b8d60eee 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
}
/*
- * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
- */
- if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
- return ULONG_MAX;
-
- /*
* The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
*/
points = mm->total_vm;
@@ -77,6 +71,12 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
task_unlock(p);
/*
+ * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
+ */
+ if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
+ return ULONG_MAX;
+
+ /*
* Processes which fork a lot of child processes are likely
* a good choice. We add half the vmsize of the children if they
* have an own mm. This prevents forking servers to flood the