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Steven Rostedt (VMware) committed 927e56db625
ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations As si_mem_available() can say there is enough memory even though the memory available is not useable by the ring buffer, it is best to not kill innocent applications because the ring buffer is taking up all the memory while it is trying to allocate a great deal of memory. If the allocator is user space (because kernel threads can also increase the size of the kernel ring buffer on boot up), then after si_mem_available() says there is enough memory, set the OOM killer to kill the current task if an OOM triggers during the allocation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404062340.GD6312@dhcp22.suse.cz Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>