Memory controller: OOM handling

Out of memory handling for cgroups over their limit. A task from the
cgroup over limit is chosen using the existing OOM logic and killed.

TODO:
1. As discussed in the OLS BOF session, consider implementing a user
space policy for OOM handling.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build due to oom-killer changes]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 9c3c1c97c197..9bbbf524ba8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
                                         int mode, struct zone *z,
                                         struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
                                         int active);
+extern void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 
 static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page)
 {