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Commit 5a2d4196 authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: fix oom killing a child process in an other cgroup



Presently the oom-killer is memcg aware and it finds the worst process
from processes under memcg(s) in oom.  Then, it kills victim's child
first.

It may kill a child in another cgroup and may not be any help for
recovery.  And it will break the assumption users have.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent bee415ce
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