[PATCH] oom: less memdie

Don't cause all threads in all other thread groups to gain TIF_MEMDIE
otherwise we'll get a thundering herd eating our memory reserve.  This may not
be the optimal scheme, but it fits our policy of allowing just one TIF_MEMDIE
in the system at once.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index a6879f22eb3..223d9ccb7d6 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -323,11 +323,12 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
 
         /*
          * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
-         * but are in a different thread group.
+         * but are in a different thread group. Don't let them have access
+         * to memory reserves though, otherwise we might deplete all memory.
          */
         do_each_thread(g, q) {
                 if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
-                        __oom_kill_task(q, 1);
+                        force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
         } while_each_thread(g, q);
 
         return 0;