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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000
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+/*
+ * linux/mm/oom_kill.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998,2000 Rik van Riel
+ * Thanks go out to Claus Fischer for some serious inspiration and
+ * for goading me into coding this file...
+ *
+ * The routines in this file are used to kill a process when
+ * we're seriously out of memory. This gets called from kswapd()
+ * in linux/mm/vmscan.c when we really run out of memory.
+ *
+ * Since we won't call these routines often (on a well-configured
+ * machine) this file will double as a 'coding guide' and a signpost
+ * for newbie kernel hackers. It features several pointers to major
+ * kernel subsystems and hints as to where to find out what things do.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/swapctl.h>
+#include <linux/timex.h>
+
+/* #define DEBUG */
+
+/**
+ * int_sqrt - oom_kill.c internal function, rough approximation to sqrt
+ * @x: integer of which to calculate the sqrt
+ *
+ * A very rough approximation to the sqrt() function.
+ */
+static unsigned int int_sqrt(unsigned int x)
+{
+ unsigned int out = x;
+ while (x & ~(unsigned int)1) x >>=2, out >>=1;
+ if (x) out -= out >> 2;
+ return (out ? out : 1);
+}
+
+/**
+ * oom_badness - calculate a numeric value for how bad this task has been
+ * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate
+ *
+ * The formula used is relatively simple and documented inline in the
+ * function. The main rationale is that we want to select a good task
+ * to kill when we run out of memory.
+ *
+ * Good in this context means that:
+ * 1) we lose the minimum amount of work done
+ * 2) we recover a large amount of memory
+ * 3) we don't kill anything innocent of eating tons of memory
+ * 4) we want to kill the minimum amount of processes (one)
+ * 5) we try to kill the process the user expects us to kill, this
+ * algorithm has been meticulously tuned to meet the priniciple
+ * of least surprise ... (be careful when you change it)
+ */
+
+static int badness(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ int points, cpu_time, run_time;
+
+ if (!p->mm)
+ return 0;
+ /*
+ * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
+ */
+ points = p->mm->total_vm;
+
+ /*
+ * CPU time is in seconds and run time is in minutes. There is no
+ * particular reason for this other than that it turned out to work
+ * very well in practice. This is not safe against jiffie wraps
+ * but we don't care _that_ much...
+ */
+ cpu_time = (p->times.tms_utime + p->times.tms_stime) >> (SHIFT_HZ + 3);
+ run_time = (jiffies - p->start_time) >> (SHIFT_HZ + 10);
+
+ points /= int_sqrt(cpu_time);
+ points /= int_sqrt(int_sqrt(run_time));
+
+ /*
+ * Niced processes are most likely less important, so double
+ * their badness points.
+ */
+ if (p->nice > 0)
+ points *= 2;
+
+ /*
+ * Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it
+ * less likely that we kill those.
+ */
+ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
+ p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0)
+ points /= 4;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access.
+ * Not only could that mess up the hardware, but usually users
+ * tend to only have this flag set on applications they think
+ * of as important.
+ */
+ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+ points /= 4;
+#ifdef DEBUG
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "OOMkill: task %d (%s) got %d points\n",
+ p->pid, p->comm, points);
+#endif
+ return points;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Simple selection loop. We chose the process with the highest
+ * number of 'points'. We need the locks to make sure that the
+ * list of task structs doesn't change while we look the other way.
+ *
+ * (not docbooked, we don't want this one cluttering up the manual)
+ */
+static struct task_struct * select_bad_process(void)
+{
+ int points = 0, maxpoints = 0;
+ struct task_struct *p = NULL;
+ struct task_struct *chosen = NULL;
+
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ for_each_task(p)
+ {
+ if (p->pid)
+ points = badness(p);
+ if (points > maxpoints) {
+ chosen = p;
+ maxpoints = points;
+ }
+ }
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ return chosen;
+}
+
+/**
+ * oom_kill - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory
+ *
+ * If we run out of memory, we have the choice between either
+ * killing a random task (bad), letting the system crash (worse)
+ * OR try to be smart about which process to kill. Note that we
+ * don't have to be perfect here, we just have to be good.
+ *
+ * We must be careful though to never send SIGKILL a process with
+ * CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set, send SIGTERM instead (but it's unlikely that
+ * we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set).
+ */
+void oom_kill(void)
+{
+
+ struct task_struct *p = select_bad_process();
+
+ /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
+ if (p == NULL)
+ panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
+
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Killed process %d (%s).", p->pid, p->comm);
+
+ /*
+ * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
+ * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
+ * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
+ */
+ p->counter = 5 * HZ;
+ p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+
+ /* This process has hardware access, be more careful. */
+ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
+ force_sig(SIGTERM, p);
+ } else {
+ force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Make kswapd go out of the way, so "p" has a good chance of
+ * killing itself before someone else gets the chance to ask
+ * for more memory.
+ */
+ current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
+ schedule();
+ return;
+}
+
+/**
+ * out_of_memory - is the system out of memory?
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if there is still enough memory left,
+ * 1 when we are out of memory (otherwise).
+ */
+int out_of_memory(void)
+{
+ struct sysinfo swp_info;
+
+ /* Enough free memory? Not OOM. */
+ if (nr_free_pages() > freepages.min)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (nr_free_pages() + nr_inactive_clean_pages() > freepages.low)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Enough swap space left? Not OOM. */
+ si_swapinfo(&swp_info);
+ if (swp_info.freeswap > 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Else... */
+ return 1;
+}