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Since the start of the git history of Linux, the kernel after selecting the worst process to be oom-killed, prefer to kill its child (if the child does not share mm with the parent). Later it was changed to prefer to kill a child who is worst. If the parent is still the worst then the parent will be killed. This heuristic assumes that the children did less work than their parent and by killing one of them, the work lost will be less. However this is very workload dependent. If there is a workload which can benefit from this heuristic, can use oom_score_adj to prefer children to be killed before the parent. The select_bad_process() has already selected the worst process in the system/memcg. There is no need to recheck the badness of its children and hoping to find a worse candidate. That's a lot of unneeded racy work. Also the heuristic is dangerous because it make fork bomb like workloads to recover much later because we constantly pick and kill processes which are not memory hogs. So, let's remove this whole heuristic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190121215850.221745-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.