the tasklist scan in the oom killer in the first place already have the option of enabling /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task, which was designed specifically for that purpose. This code had existed in the oom killer for over eight years dating back to the 2.4 kernel. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add nice comment] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ying Han Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ix%’™Ix