From 6a618957ad17d8f4f4c7eeede752685374b1b176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:17:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: oom_kill: don't ignore oom score on exiting tasks When the OOM killer scans tasks and encounters a PF_EXITING one, it force-selects that task regardless of the score. The problem is that if that task got stuck waiting for some state the allocation site is holding, the OOM reaper can not move on to the next best victim. Frankly, I don't even know why we check for exiting tasks in the OOM killer. We've tried direct reclaim at least 15 times by the time we decide the system is OOM, there was plenty of time to exit and free memory; and a task might exit voluntarily right after we issue a kill. This is testing pure noise. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrea Argangeli Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/oom_kill.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index e97a05d9621f..63ced708eafd 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -287,9 +287,6 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct oom_control *oc, if (oom_task_origin(task)) return OOM_SCAN_SELECT; - if (task_will_free_mem(task) && !is_sysrq_oom(oc)) - return OOM_SCAN_ABORT; - return OOM_SCAN_OK; } -- 2.30.2