[PATCH] copy over oom_adj value at fork time

[Rik van Riel]

After moving the oom_adj value from the task struct to the
mm_struct, the oom_adj value was no longer properly inherited
by child processes.

Copying over the oom_adj value at fork time fixes that bug.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Paul Menage <manage@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Paul, does this fix your bug?

 kernel/fork.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: mmotm/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm.orig/kernel/fork.c	2009-07-14 20:58:01.000000000 -0400
+++ mmotm/kernel/fork.c	2009-07-14 21:00:40.000000000 -0400
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct
 	init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist);
 	mm->flags = (current->mm) ? current->mm->flags : default_dump_filter;
+	mm->oom_adj = current->mm->oom_adj;
 	mm->core_state = NULL;
 	mm->nr_ptes = 0;
 	set_mm_counter(mm, file_rss, 0);
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