From 098d7f128a4e53cb64930628915ac767785e0e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:25:55 -0700 Subject: oom: add per-zone locking OOM killer synchronization should be done with zone granularity so that memory policy and cpuset allocations may have their corresponding zones locked and allow parallel kills for other OOM conditions that may exist elsewhere in the system. DMA allocations can be targeted at the zone level, which would not be possible if locking was done in nodes or globally. Synchronization shall be done with a variation of "trylocks." The goal is to put the current task to sleep and restart the failed allocation attempt later if the trylock fails. Otherwise, the OOM killer is invoked. Each zone in the zonelist that __alloc_pages() was called with is checked for the newly-introduced ZONE_OOM_LOCKED flag. If any zone has this flag present, the "trylock" to serialize the OOM killer fails and returns zero. Otherwise, all the zones have ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set and the try_set_zone_oom() function returns non-zero. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/oom.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/oom.h') diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h index cf6ebf5b422..e9081200cdb 100644 --- a/include/linux/oom.h +++ b/include/linux/oom.h @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ enum oom_constraint { CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY, }; +extern int try_set_zone_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist); +extern void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist); + extern void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order); extern int register_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int unregister_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); -- cgit v1.2.3