Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task more than twice

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 06/09, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> @@ -556,8 +556,27 @@ static void oom_reap_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  		schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10);
>  
>  	if (attempts > MAX_OOM_REAP_RETRIES) {
> +		struct task_struct *p;
> +
>  		pr_info("oom_reaper: unable to reap pid:%d (%s)\n",
>  				task_pid_nr(tsk), tsk->comm);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * If we've already tried to reap this task in the past and
> +		 * failed it probably doesn't make much sense to try yet again
> +		 * so hide the mm from the oom killer so that it can move on
> +		 * to another task with a different mm struct.
> +		 */
> +		p = find_lock_task_mm(tsk);
> +		if (p) {
> +			if (test_and_set_bit(MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE, &p->mm->flags)) {
> +				pr_info("oom_reaper: giving up pid:%d (%s)\n",
> +						task_pid_nr(tsk), tsk->comm);
> +				set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags);

But why do we need MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE? We set MMF_OOM_REAPED, oom_reap_task()
should not see this task again, at least too often.

Oleg.