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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 2cc9b238368f..7c74dcc2d26d 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
+/*
+ * Serializes oom killer invocations (out_of_memory()) from all contexts to
+ * prevent from over eager oom killing (e.g. when the oom killer is invoked
+ * from different domains).
+ *
+ * oom_killer_disable() relies on this lock to stabilize oom_killer_disabled
+ * and mark_oom_victim
+ */
DEFINE_MUTEX(oom_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -1077,15 +1085,9 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
dump_header(oc, NULL);
panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
}
- if (oc->chosen && oc->chosen != (void *)-1UL) {
+ if (oc->chosen && oc->chosen != (void *)-1UL)
oom_kill_process(oc, !is_memcg_oom(oc) ? "Out of memory" :
"Memory cgroup out of memory");
- /*
- * Give the killed process a good chance to exit before trying
- * to allocate memory again.
- */
- schedule_timeout_killable(1);
- }
return !!oc->chosen;
}