Re: [PATCH rh6] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Sun Mar 06 2011 - 06:21:09 EST


> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Andrey Vagin wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > index 7dcca55..2fc554e 100644
> > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
> > * blocked waiting for another task which itself is waiting
> > * for memory. Is there a better alternative?
> > */
> > - if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE))
> > + if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE) && p->mm)
> > return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
> >
> > /*
>
> I think it would be better to just do
>
> if (!p->mm)
> continue;
>
> after the check for oom_unkillable_task() because everything that follows
> this really depends on p->mm being non-NULL to actually do anything
> useful.

I'm glad you join to review MM patches. It is worth effort for making
solid kernel. But, please look at a current code at first.


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