staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Don't wait more than one second fo…

…r a process to die

If a process forked and the child process was killed by the
lowmemorykiller, the lowmemory killer would be disabled until
the parent process reaped the child or it died itself.

Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static size_t lowmem_minfree[6] = {
 static int lowmem_minfree_size = 4;
 
 static struct task_struct *lowmem_deathpending;
+static unsigned long lowmem_deathpending_timeout;
 
 #define lowmem_print(level, x...)			\
 	do {						\
@@ -103,7 +104,8 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
 	 * Note: Currently you need CONFIG_PROFILING
 	 * for this to work correctly.
 	 */
-	if (lowmem_deathpending)
+	if (lowmem_deathpending &&
+	    time_before_eq(jiffies, lowmem_deathpending_timeout))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (lowmem_adj_size < array_size)
@@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
 		lowmem_deathpending = selected;
+		lowmem_deathpending_timeout = jiffies + HZ;
 		task_handoff_register(&task_nb);
 #endif
 		force_sig(SIGKILL, selected);