Re: [PATCH] mm/oom: Suppress unnecessary "sharing same memory" message.

[Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>]

Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 01-06-15 21:10:18, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Mon 01-06-15 19:51:05, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > How can all fatal_signal_pending() "struct task_struct" get access to memory
> > > > reserves when only one of fatal_signal_pending() "struct task_struct" has
> > > > TIF_MEMDIE ?
> > > 
> > > Because of 
> > > 	/*
> > > 	 * If current has a pending SIGKILL or is exiting, then automatically
> > > 	 * select it.  The goal is to allow it to allocate so that it may
> > > 	 * quickly exit and free its memory.
> > > 	 *
> > > 	 * But don't select if current has already released its mm and cleared
> > > 	 * TIF_MEMDIE flag at exit_mm(), otherwise an OOM livelock may occur.
> > > 	 */
> > > 	if (current->mm &&
> > > 	    (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current))) {
> > > 		mark_oom_victim(current);
> > > 		goto out;
> > > 	}
> > 
> > Then, what guarantees that the thread which is between
> > down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem) and up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem)
> > (or whatever locks which are blocking the OOM victim) calls out_of_memory() ?
> > That thread might be doing !__GFP_FS allocation request.
> 
> Could you point to such a place?

I think sequence shown below is possible.

[Thread1-in-Porcess1         Thread2-in-Porcess1]    [Thread3-in-Process2]

mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
                                                     kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
                                                     Invokes the OOM killer
                             Receives TIF_MEMDIE
Receives SIGKILL
                             Receives SIGKILL
                             mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); <= Waiting forever
kmalloc(GFP_NOFS); <= Can't return because out_of_memory() is not called.
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
                             kmalloc(GFP_NOFS);
                             mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

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