From: Andrea Arcangeli iscsi/lvm2/multipath needs guaranteed protection from the oom-killer, so make the magical value of -17 in /proc//oom_adj defeat the oom-killer altogether. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/fs/proc/base.c | 2 +- 25-akpm/include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++ 25-akpm/mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections fs/proc/base.c --- 25/fs/proc/base.c~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/fs/proc/base.c 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static ssize_t oom_adjust_write(struct f if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count)) return -EFAULT; oom_adjust = simple_strtol(buffer, &end, 0); - if (oom_adjust < -16 || oom_adjust > 15) + if ((oom_adjust < -16 || oom_adjust > 15) && oom_adjust != OOM_DISABLE) return -EINVAL; if (*end == '\n') end++; diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections include/linux/mm.h --- 25/include/linux/mm.h~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/mm.h 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 @@ -890,5 +890,8 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long a #define in_gate_area(task, addr) ({(void)task; in_gate_area_no_task(addr);}) #endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */ +/* /proc//oom_adj set to -17 protects from the oom-killer */ +#define OOM_DISABLE -17 + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */ diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections mm/oom_kill.c --- 25/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-killer-disable-for-iscsi-lvm2-multipath-userland-critical-sections 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/mm/oom_kill.c 2005-04-02 00:19:01.000000000 -0800 @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static struct task_struct * select_bad_p do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); do_each_thread(g, p) /* skip the init task with pid == 1 */ - if (p->pid > 1) { + if (p->pid > 1 && p->oomkilladj != OOM_DISABLE) { unsigned long points; /* _