From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com>

select_bad_process() thinks a kernel thread can't have ->mm != NULL, this
is not true due to use_mm().

Change the code to check PF_KTHREAD.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim(a)gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 9 +++------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 709aedf..070b713 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -256,14 +256,11 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
for_each_process(p) {
unsigned long points;

- /*
- * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released
- * their mm.
- */
+ /* skip the tasks which have already released their mm. */
if (!p->mm)
continue;
- /* skip the init task */
- if (is_global_init(p))
+ /* skip the init task and kthreads */
+ if (is_global_init(p) || (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
continue;
if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
continue;
--
1.6.5.2



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