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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 3 |
4 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a46c10fcddf..2dc246af488 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - drop-caches - zone_reclaim_mode - zone_reclaim_interval +- panic_on_oom ============================================================== @@ -178,3 +179,15 @@ Time is set in seconds and set by default to 30 seconds. Reduce the interval if undesired off node allocations occur. However, too frequent scans will have a negative impact onoff node allocation performance. +============================================================= + +panic_on_oom + +This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1, +the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens. If this is set to 0, the kernel +will kill some rogue process, called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill +rogue processes and system will survive. If you want to panic the system +rather than killing rogue processes, set this to 1. + +The default value is 0. + diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index cee944dbdcd..c7132029af0 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ enum VM_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION=30,/* int: fraction of pages in each percpu_pagelist */ VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_MODE=31, /* reclaim local zone memory before going off node */ VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL=32, /* time period to wait after reclaim failure */ + VM_PANIC_ON_OOM=33, /* panic at out-of-memory */ }; diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 0d656e61621..072ac446810 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, extern int C_A_D; extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; +extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; extern int max_threads; extern int sysrq_enabled; extern int core_uses_pid; @@ -702,6 +703,14 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, { + .ctl_name = VM_PANIC_ON_OOM, + .procname = "panic_on_oom", + .data = &sysctl_panic_on_oom, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_panic_on_oom), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { .ctl_name = VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO, .procname = "overcommit_ratio", .data = &sysctl_overcommit_ratio, diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 042e6436c3e..f9bb3cf3238 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/jiffies.h> #include <linux/cpuset.h> +int sysctl_panic_on_oom; /* #define DEBUG */ /** @@ -344,6 +345,8 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order) break; case CONSTRAINT_NONE: + if (sysctl_panic_on_oom) + panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n"); retry: /* * Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever |