[PATCH] support for panic at OOM

This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.

When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue
processes.  And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in
the same way as it does today.  Of course, the default value is 0 and only
root can modifies it.

In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes.  So the whole
system can survive.  But there are environments where panic is preferable
rather than kill some processes.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index cee944dbdcd4..c7132029af0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ enum
         VM_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION=30,/* int: fraction of pages in each percpu_pagelist */
         VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_MODE=31, /* reclaim local zone memory before going off node */
         VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL=32, /* time period to wait after reclaim failure */
+        VM_PANIC_ON_OOM=33,     /* panic at out-of-memory */
 };