mm, oom: OOM sysrq should always kill a process

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The OOM kill sysrq (alt+sysrq+F) should allow the user to kill the
process with the highest OOM badness with a single execution.

However, at the moment, the OOM kill can bail out if an OOM notifier
(e.g.  the i915 one) says that it reclaimed a tiny amount of memory from
somewhere.  That's probably not what the user wants, so skip the bailout
if the OOM was triggered via sysrq.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106102605.635656-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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