Re: [PATCH 2/3] ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs

[Izik Eidus]

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Just as the swapoff system call allocates many pages of RAM to various
> processes, perhaps triggering OOM, so "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run"
> (unmerge) is liable to allocate many pages of RAM to various processes,
> perhaps triggering OOM; and each is normally run from a modest admin
> process (swapoff or shell), easily repeated until it succeeds.
>
> So treat unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() in the same way that we
> treat try_to_unuse(): generalize PF_SWAPOFF to PF_OOM_ORIGIN, and
> bracket both with that, to ask the OOM killer to kill them first,
> to prevent them from spawning more and more OOM kills.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   

Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
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