Re: [PATCH] mm: zap ZONE_OOM_LOCKED

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 27-05-16 17:08:13, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Not used since oom_lock was instroduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 -
>  mm/oom_kill.c          | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 02069c23486d..3388ccbab7d6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ struct zone {
>  
>  enum zone_flags {
>  	ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED,		/* prevents concurrent reclaim */
> -	ZONE_OOM_LOCKED,		/* zone is in OOM killer zonelist */
>  	ZONE_CONGESTED,			/* zone has many dirty pages backed by
>  					 * a congested BDI
>  					 */
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 1685890d424e..b95c4c101b35 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -997,8 +997,8 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
>  
>  /*
>   * The pagefault handler calls here because it is out of memory, so kill a
> - * memory-hogging task.  If any populated zone has ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set, a
> - * parallel oom killing is already in progress so do nothing.
> + * memory-hogging task. If oom_lock is held by somebody else, a parallel oom
> + * killing is already in progress so do nothing.
>   */
>  void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
>  {
> -- 
> 2.1.4

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs