oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring

If a thread has been oom killed and is frozen, thaw it before returning to
the page allocator.  Otherwise, it can stay frozen indefinitely and no
memory will be freed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2011-10-31 17:07:07 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d08c429b06
commit f660daac47
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
@ -317,8 +318,11 @@ 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)) {
if (unlikely(frozen(p)))
thaw_process(p);
return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
}
if (!p->mm)
continue;