On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:40:41PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> When two threads have the same badness score, it's preferable to kill the 
> thread group leader so that the actual process name is printed to the 
> kernel log rather than the thread group name which may be shared amongst 
> several processes.
> 
> This was the behavior when select_bad_process() used to do 
> for_each_process(), but it now iterates threads instead and leads to 
> ambiguity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  mm/oom_kill.c   | 12 ++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index a815686..b482f49 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1841,13 +1841,17 @@ static void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct 
> mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>                               break;
>                       };
>                       points = oom_badness(task, memcg, NULL, totalpages);
> -                     if (points > chosen_points) {
> -                             if (chosen)
> -                                     put_task_struct(chosen);
> -                             chosen = task;
> -                             chosen_points = points;
> -                             get_task_struct(chosen);

Where did that GET go?

> -                     }
> +                     if (points < chosen_points)
> +                             continue;
> +                     /* Prefer thread group leaders for display purposes */
> +                     if (points == chosen_points &&
> +                         thread_group_leader(chosen))
> +                             continue;
> +
> +                     if (chosen)
> +                             put_task_struct(chosen);

...boom.

> +                     chosen = task;
> +                     chosen_points = points;
>               }
>               css_task_iter_end(&it);
>       }
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 054ff47..1dca3d8 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -327,10 +327,14 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned 
> int *ppoints,
>                       break;
>               };
>               points = oom_badness(p, NULL, nodemask, totalpages);
> -             if (points > chosen_points) {
> -                     chosen = p;
> -                     chosen_points = points;
> -             }
> +             if (points < chosen_points)
> +                     continue;
> +             /* Prefer thread group leaders for display purposes */
> +             if (points == chosen_points && thread_group_leader(chosen))
> +                     continue;
> +
> +             chosen = p;
> +             chosen_points = points;
>       }
>       if (chosen)
>               get_task_struct(chosen);
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