Andrew Morton wrote:
Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Recent make-sysrq-f-call-oom_kill.patch calls oom-killer in interrupt context,
thus results into panic. This patch fixes out_of_memory() to avoid schedule
when in interrupt context.

        Coywolf


Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff -pruN 2.6.12-rc1-mm2/mm/oom_kill.c 2.6.12-rc1-mm2-cy/mm/oom_kill.c
--- 2.6.12-rc1-mm2/mm/oom_kill.c        2005-03-03 17:12:18.000000000 +0800
+++ 2.6.12-rc1-mm2-cy/mm/oom_kill.c     2005-03-25 08:07:19.000000000 +0800
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h>

/* #define DEBUG */

@@ -283,6 +284,9 @@ retry:
        if (mm)
                mmput(mm);

+       if (in_interrupt())
+               return;


That'll make the whole feature a no-op, won't it?

It won't be a no-op. I have tested it. It works well. I pressed sysrq-f, loging bash got killed and I had to re-login.


The thing needs to be moved into process context via schedule_work(). I haven't got around to it yet.


I don't think schedule_work() is a good option here. Since sysrq-f is emergent, we just let oom-killer send SIGKILL in interrupt context and return.

We needn't send SIGKILL in a process context. That'll be slow and [events] may 
got delayed.

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