Re: + oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent-fix.patch added to -mm tree

Re: + oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent-fix.patch added to -mm tree

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> 
> The patch titled
>      oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent fix
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent-fix.patch
> 
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> 
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> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent fix
> From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> 
> Elaborate on the comment in oom_kill_process() so it's clear why a
> killable child with a different mm is sacrificied for its parent.
> 
> At the same time, rename auto variable `c' to "child" and move "cpoints"
> inside the list_for_each_entry() loop with a more descriptive name as akpm
> suggests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>