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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-02-22 21:44:14 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2010-02-23 04:50:34 +0100
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memcg: fix oom killing a child process in an other cgroup
Presently the oom-killer is memcg aware and it finds the worst process from processes under memcg(s) in oom. Then, it kills victim's child first. It may kill a child in another cgroup and may not be any help for recovery. And it will break the assumption users have. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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