Linux: Adjust /proc/pid/oom_adj to sacrifice plugin and renderer processes to...

base/process_util.h

 // Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // This file/namespace contains utility functions for enumerating, ending and
 // computing statistics of processes.
 
 #ifndef BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_
 #define BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_
 
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 // Returns the ID for the parent of the given process.
 ProcessId GetParentProcessId(ProcessHandle process);
 
 // Returns the path to the executable of the given process.
 FilePath GetProcessExecutablePath(ProcessHandle process);
 
 // Parse the data found in /proc/<pid>/stat and return the sum of the
 // CPU-related ticks.  Returns -1 on parse error.
 // Exposed for testing.
 int ParseProcStatCPU(const std::string& input);
+
+static const char kAdjustOOMScoreSwitch[] = "--adjust-oom-score";
+
+// This adjusts /proc/process/oom_adj so the Linux OOM killer will prefer
+// certain process types over others. The range for the adjustment is
+// [-17,15], with [0,15] being user accessible.
+bool AdjustOOMScore(ProcessId process, int score);
 #endif
 
 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
 // Sets all file descriptors to close on exec except for stdin, stdout
 // and stderr.
 // TODO(agl): remove this function
 // WARNING: do not use. It's inherently race-prone in the face of
 // multi-threading.
 void SetAllFDsToCloseOnExec();
 // Close all file descriptors, expect those which are a destination in the
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 // instance running inside the parent.  The parent's Breakpad instance should
 // not handle the child's exceptions.  Calling RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler
 // in the child after forking will restore the standard exception handler.
 // See http://crbug.com/20371/ for more details.
 void RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler();
 #endif
 
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_