PTE pages eat up memory just like anything else, but we do not account for
them in any way in the OOM scores. They are also _guaranteed_ to get
freed up when a process is OOM killed, while RSS is not.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/*
* The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
- * task's rss and swap space use.
+ * task's rss, pagetable and swap space use.
*/
- points = (get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS)) * 1000 /
- totalpages;
+ points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + p->mm->nr_ptes;
+ points += get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
+
+ points *= 1000;
+ points /= totalpages;
task_unlock(p);
/*