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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2015-09-08 15:00:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700
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mm, oom: do not panic for oom kills triggered from sysrq
Sysrq+f is used to kill a process either for debug or when the VM is otherwise unresponsive. It is not intended to trigger a panic when no process may be killed. Avoid panicking the system for sysrq+f when no processes are killed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.:
'e' - Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init.
-'f' - Will call oom_kill to kill a memory hog process.
+'f' - Will call the oom killer to kill a memory hog process, but do not
+ panic if nothing can be killed.
'g' - Used by kgdb (kernel debugger)