[PATCH 3/3] [PATCH x86_64] during VM oom condition,kill all threads in process group

[Will Schmidt]

When we get into a state where VM has ran out of memory, and it's time to
thwack a process, we should take out the entire process group, rather than 
just one thread.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
index 6ada723..2a3060e 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
@@ -562,8 +562,10 @@ out_of_memory:
 		goto again;
 	}
 	printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm);
-	if (error_code & 4)
+	if (error_code & 4) {
+		zap_other_threads(tsk);
 		do_exit(SIGKILL);
+	}
 	goto no_context;
 
 do_sigbus:


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