[PATCH] support for panic at OOM
This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.
When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue
processes. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in
the same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only
root can modifies it.
In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole
system can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable
rather than kill some processes.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 042e643..f9bb3cf 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/cpuset.h>
+int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
/* #define DEBUG */
/**
@@ -344,6 +345,8 @@
break;
case CONSTRAINT_NONE:
+ if (sysctl_panic_on_oom)
+ panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n");
retry:
/*
* Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever
