Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] mm/madvise: allow KSM hints for remote API

[Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 09-03-20 14:11:17, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 05:08:18PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> [...]
> > > Dunno, it's nice to react to signals quickly, for any proces that gets them, no?
> > 
> > So, do you mean something like this?
> > 
> > ===
> > diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
> > index 363ec8189561..b39c237cfcf4 100644
> > --- a/mm/ksm.c
> > +++ b/mm/ksm.c
> > @@ -849,7 +849,8 @@ static int unmerge_ksm_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >  	for (addr = start; addr < end && !err; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> >  		if (ksm_test_exit(vma->vm_mm))
> >  			break;
> > -		if (signal_pending(current))
> > +		if (signal_pending(current) ||
> > +		    signal_pending(rcu_dereference(vma->vm_mm->owner)))
> >  			err = -ERESTARTSYS;
> >  		else
> >  			err = break_ksm(vma, addr);
> > ===
> 
> This is broken because mm might be attached to different tasks.
> AFAIU this check is meant to allow quick backoff of the _calling_
> process so that it doesn't waste time when the context is killed
> already. I do not understand why should we care about any other context
> here? What is the actual problem this would solve?

I agree with you, but still trying to understand what does Vlastimil mean
:).

> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
> 

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  Best regards,
    Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
    Principal Software Maintenance Engineer