linux/include
KOSAKI Motohiro 37b23e0525 x86,mm: make pagefault killable
When an oom killing occurs, almost all processes are getting stuck at the
following two points.

	1) __alloc_pages_nodemask
	2) __lock_page_or_retry

1) is not very problematic because TIF_MEMDIE leads to an allocation
failure and getting out from page allocator.

2) is more problematic.  In an OOM situation, zones typically don't have
page cache at all and memory starvation might lead to greatly reduced IO
performance.  When a fork bomb occurs, TIF_MEMDIE tasks don't die quickly,
meaning that a fork bomb may create new process quickly rather than the
oom-killer killing it.  Then, the system may become livelocked.

This patch makes the pagefault interruptible by SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:08 -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
crypto
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 x86,mm: make pagefault killable 2011-05-25 08:39:08 -07:00
math-emu
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
rdma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
rxrpc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
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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target Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
trace Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-05-19 18:14:34 -07:00
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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