From dabb16f639820267b3850d804571c70bd93d4e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:46:05 -0800 Subject: oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked it has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something higher. Alternative considered: * a setuid binary * a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a setuid or daemon implementation would be complex. The alternatives also have much higher overhead. This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ying Han Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 76a1fdd80bdf..1499607e4da2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) sig->oom_adj = current->signal->oom_adj; sig->oom_score_adj = current->signal->oom_score_adj; + sig->oom_score_adj_min = current->signal->oom_score_adj_min; mutex_init(&sig->cred_guard_mutex); -- cgit v1.2.3