From fe071d7e8aae5745c009c808bb8933f22a9e305a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:25:56 -0700 Subject: oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a memory-hogging target. This is helpful for systems with an insanely large number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades performance. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c676b5ec88f5..5e63de0f9ee2 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ extern int print_fatal_signals; extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; +extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; extern int max_threads; extern int core_uses_pid; extern int suid_dumpable; @@ -780,6 +781,14 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "oom_kill_allocating_task", + .data = &sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, { .ctl_name = VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO, .procname = "overcommit_ratio", -- cgit v1.2.2