Re: [PATCH] page-allocator: Ensure that processes that have beenOOM killed exit the page allocator (resend)

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> This only works for GFP_ATOMIC since the next iteration of the page 
> allocator will (probably) fail reclaim and simply invoke the oom killer 
> again, which will notice current has TIF_MEMDIE set and choose to do 
> nothing, at which time the allocator simply loops again.
> 

In other words, I'd propose this as an alternative patch.

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1789,6 +1789,10 @@ rebalance:
 	if (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
 		goto nopage;
 
+	/* Avoid allocations with no watermarks from looping endlessly */
+	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
+		goto nopage;
+
 	/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
 	page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order,
 					zonelist, high_zoneidx,
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