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[POWERPC] During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group
authorwill schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:19:01 +0000 (01:19 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:29:59 +0000 (22:29 +1000)
commiteffe24bdd41ef790b30c9ac02ede3703937c6ba0
tree558fde1f554a95893176f3243df34629dd4b86a7
parentd8c391a5593aca5bea002bcaaec16c7bbd6ec853
[POWERPC] During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group

We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
condition.

Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a
bad state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for
the application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very
obvious that something has gone wrong.

This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather than
just the one thread.

lightly tested on powerpc

Signed-off-by: Will <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c