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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-09-25 23:31:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 08:48:49 -0700 |
| commit | 5081dde33f7a61d28d9b185cc386f12cb837c7a4 (patch) | |
| tree | d2e6f39db4005229580f571137a833c1dabfc38b /mm/oom_kill.c | |
| parent | af5b912435de32fbede08cee949429823ed49781 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-5081dde33f7a61d28d9b185cc386f12cb837c7a4.zip op-kernel-dev-5081dde33f7a61d28d9b185cc386f12cb837c7a4.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] oom: kthread infinite loop fix
Skip kernel threads, rather than having them return 0 from badness.
Theoretically, badness might truncate all results to 0, thus a kernel thread
might be picked first, causing an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index f1aba7e..12cd473 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints) unsigned long points; int releasing; + /* skip kernel threads */ + if (!p->mm) + continue; /* skip the init task with pid == 1 */ if (p->pid == 1) continue; |
