From 2c5ea53ce46ebb232e0d9a475fdd2b166d2a516b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:19:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] oom: oom_kill_process() doesn't select kthread child

Presently select_bad_process() has a PF_KTHREAD check, but
oom_kill_process doesn't.  It mean oom_kill_process() may choose wrong
task, especially, when the child are using use_mm().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 6e9f16a910e0..b9816ea2eb8f 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -467,6 +467,8 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
 
 			if (child->mm == p->mm)
 				continue;
+			if (child->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
+				continue;
 			if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(child, mem))
 				continue;
 			if (!has_intersects_mems_allowed(child, nodemask))
-- 
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