Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:55:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:55:43 -0500 Received: from mail.missioncriticallinux.com ([208.51.139.18]:19465 "EHLO missioncriticallinux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:55:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3AB9313C.1020909@missioncriticallinux.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:54:52 -0500 From: "Patrick O'Rourke" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-pre6 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() from picking init. Pat --- xxx/linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Tue Nov 14 13:56:46 2000 +++ linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Wed Mar 21 15:25:03 2001 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_task(p) { - if (p->pid) { + if (p->pid && p->pid != 1) { int points = badness(p); if (points > maxpoints) { chosen = p; -- Patrick O'Rourke 978.606.0236 orourke@missioncriticallinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/