Re: [patch 1/2] arch: invoke oom-killer from page fault

[Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>]

On 06/06/2013 10:06 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Subject: [patch] mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault
>  handlers
> 
> A few remaining architectures directly kill the page faulting task in
> an out of memory situation.  This is usually not a good idea since
> that task might not even use a significant amount of memory and so may
> not be the optimal victim to resolve the situation.
> 
> Since '1c0fe6e mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault' (2.6.29) there
> is a hook that architecture page fault handlers are supposed to call
> to invoke the OOM killer and let it pick the right task to kill.
> Convert the remaining architectures over to this hook.
> 
> To have the previous behavior of simply taking out the faulting task
> the vm.oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl can be set to 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>   # for arch/arc bits

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