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David Rientjes 72788c3856 oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj
There's a kernel-wide shortage of per-process flags, so it's always
helpful to trim one when possible without incurring a significant penalty.
 It's even more important when you're planning on adding a per- process
flag yourself, which I plan to do shortly for transparent hugepages.

PF_OOM_ORIGIN is used by ksm and swapoff to prefer current since it has a
tendency to allocate large amounts of memory and should be preferred for
killing over other tasks.  We'd rather immediately kill the task making
the errant syscall rather than penalizing an innocent task.

This patch removes PF_OOM_ORIGIN since its behavior is equivalent to
setting the process's oom_score_adj to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX.

The process's old oom_score_adj is stored and then set to
OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX during the time it used to have PF_OOM_ORIGIN.  The old
value is then reinstated when the process should no longer be considered a
high priority for oom killing.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: 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>
2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
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acpi Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2011-05-24 12:06:02 -07:00
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drm Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2011-05-24 12:06:40 -07:00
keys libceph: Create a new key type "ceph". 2011-03-29 12:11:24 -07:00
linux oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj 2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
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media [media] rc: add locking to fix register/show race 2011-05-20 16:21:22 -03:00
mtd UBI: fix minor stylistic issues 2011-04-14 11:34:41 +03:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-05-23 09:12:26 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: Make declaration and uses of struct pcmcia_device_id const 2011-05-06 07:46:15 +02:00
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scsi scsi: remove performance regression due to async queue run 2011-05-17 11:04:44 +02:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/asoc' into for-linus 2011-05-22 10:01:33 +02:00
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video Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2011-04-26 10:22:59 +02:00
xen xen/irq: Export 'xen_pirq_from_irq' function. 2011-04-14 11:17:55 -04:00
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