mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+f

The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:

 - an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
   and

 - an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
   is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.

SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task.  This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.

For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer.  This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 572b93ea475c..98552cf1da8b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
                         goto out;
         }
         /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
-        out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, nodemask);
+        out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, nodemask, false);
 
 out:
         clear_zonelist_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask);