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ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs

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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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Hugh Dickins 2009-09-21 17:02:27 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 35451beecb
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@ -1575,9 +1575,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
p->flags &= ~SWP_WRITEOK;
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
current->flags |= PF_SWAPOFF;
current->flags |= PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
err = try_to_unuse(type);
current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPOFF;
current->flags &= ~PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
if (err) {
/* re-insert swap space back into swap_list */