allow oom_adj of saintly processes

If the badness of a process is zero then oom_adj>0 has no effect.  This
patch makes sure that the oom_adj shift actually increases badness points
appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Joshua N. Pritikin <jpritikin@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 3791edfffeeb..a35e7a8ebd7e 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -147,9 +147,11 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
          * Adjust the score by oomkilladj.
          */
         if (p->oomkilladj) {
-                if (p->oomkilladj > 0)
+                if (p->oomkilladj > 0) {
+                        if (!points)
+                                points = 1;
                         points <<= p->oomkilladj;
-                else
+                } else
                         points >>= -(p->oomkilladj);
         }