From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:25:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~791
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe071d7e8aae5745c009c808bb8933f22a9e305a;p=pandora-kernel.git

oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl

Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill
the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a
memory-hogging target.  This is helpful for systems with an insanely large
number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades
performance.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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