linux/include
David Rientjes c9f01245b6 oom: remove oom_disable_count
This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and
currently buggy.  The counter was intended to be per-process but it's
currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing
it to underflow.

The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that
share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to
future memory freeing.  The counter could be fixed to represent all
threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since:

 - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the
   victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause
   future memory freeing, and

 - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just
   because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
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acpi PCI hotplug: acpiphp: Prevent deadlock on PCI-to-PCI bridge remove 2011-10-14 09:05:31 -07:00
asm-generic dma-mapping: fix sync_single_range_* DMA debugging 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
crypto
drm Revert "drm/ttm: add a way to bo_wait for either the last read or last write" 2011-10-27 18:28:37 +02:00
keys
linux oom: remove oom_disable_count 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
math-emu
media doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
mtd
net ipv6: tcp: fix TCLASS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT 2011-10-27 00:44:35 -04:00
pcmcia
rdma net: consolidate and fix ethtool_ops->get_settings calling 2011-09-15 17:32:26 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound 2011-10-28 14:25:01 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
trace mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
video Merge branch 'for-florian' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux into fbdev-next 2011-10-15 00:19:52 +00:00
xen Merge branches 'stable/drivers-3.2', 'stable/drivers.bugfixes-3.2' and 'stable/pci.fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-10-25 09:19:36 +02:00
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