linux/kernel
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki fadd8fbd15 [PATCH] support for panic at OOM
This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.

When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue
processes.  And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in
the same way as it does today.  Of course, the default value is 0 and only
root can modifies it.

In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes.  So the whole
system can survive.  But there are environments where panic is preferable
rather than kill some processes.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:47 -07:00
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irq
power [PATCH] suspend_console() warning fix 2006-06-22 15:05:56 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
hrtimer.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/rbtree-2.6 2006-06-20 14:51:22 -07:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
Makefile
module.c
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
panic.c
params.c
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
rcupdate.c
rcutorture.c
relay.c
resource.c
sched.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] support for panic at OOM 2006-06-23 07:42:47 -07:00
time.c
timer.c
uid16.c
user.c [PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystem 2006-06-22 15:05:55 -07:00
wait.c
workqueue.c