ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs

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 <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 8f3e63cb33a6..899d7304d594 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ extern cputime_t task_gtime(struct task_struct *p);
 #define PF_FROZEN       0x00010000      /* frozen for system suspend */
 #define PF_FSTRANS      0x00020000      /* inside a filesystem transaction */
 #define PF_KSWAPD       0x00040000      /* I am kswapd */
-#define PF_SWAPOFF      0x00080000      /* I am in swapoff */
+#define PF_OOM_ORIGIN   0x00080000      /* Allocating much memory to others */
 #define PF_LESS_THROTTLE 0x00100000     /* Throttle me less: I clean memory */
 #define PF_KTHREAD      0x00200000      /* I am a kernel thread */
 #define PF_RANDOMIZE    0x00400000      /* randomize virtual address space */
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index e11e7a5ac84f..37cc37325094 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,9 @@ static ssize_t run_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
         if (ksm_run != flags) {
                 ksm_run = flags;
                 if (flags & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE) {
+                        current->flags |= PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
                         err = unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items();
+                        current->flags &= ~PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
                         if (err) {
                                 ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
                                 count = err;
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index a7b2460e922b..da4c342f2641 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
         /*
          * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
          */
-        if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
+        if (p->flags & PF_OOM_ORIGIN)
                 return ULONG_MAX;
 
         /*
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 74f1102e8749..f1bf19daadc6 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -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 */