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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:01:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008140155.GB426@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151006184502.GA15787@redhat.com>

On Tue 06-10-15 20:45:02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
[...]
> And I was going to make V1 which avoids queue_work/kthread and zaps the
> memory in oom_kill_process() context.
> 
> But this can't work because we need to increment ->mm_users to avoid
> the race with exit_mmap/etc. And this means that we need mmput() after
> that, and as we recently discussed it can deadlock if mm_users goes
> to zero, we can't do exit_mmap/etc in oom_kill_process().

Right. I hoped we could rely on mm_count just to pin mm but that is not
sufficient because exit_mmap doesn't rely on mmap_sem so we do not have
any synchronization there. Unfortunate. This means that we indeed have
to do it asynchronously. Maybe we can come up with some trickery but
let's do it later. I do agree that going with a kernel thread for now
would be easier. Sorry about misleading you, I should have realized that
mmput from the oom killing path is dangerous.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 17:59 [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks Kyle Walker
2015-09-17 19:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 15:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 16:24     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 16:39       ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-18 16:54         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 17:00       ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 19:07         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 19:19           ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 21:28             ` Kyle Walker
2015-09-18 22:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-19  8:32         ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19 14:33           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 15:51             ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:33             ` David Rientjes
2015-09-22  5:33               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 23:32                 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 12:03                   ` Kyle Walker
2015-09-24 11:50                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 14:44           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:27         ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19  8:25     ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19  8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:08   ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19 15:03 ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:10   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:58   ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:16     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 22:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-19 22:54     ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:00     ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20  9:33     ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:06       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 12:56     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 18:05       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 18:21         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 18:23         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 19:07         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-21 13:57           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 13:44         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 14:24           ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 15:32             ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 16:12               ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-22 16:06                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 23:04                   ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 20:59                   ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-24 21:15                     ` David Rientjes
2015-09-25  9:35                       ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-25 16:14                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 16:18                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:28                             ` David Rientjes
2015-10-02 12:36                             ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 19:01                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-05 14:44                                 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-07  5:16                                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-07 10:43                                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-08  9:40                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06  7:55                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-06  8:49                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06  8:55                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06 14:52                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-03  6:02                               ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 14:51                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12  6:43                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 15:25                                     ` Silent hang up caused by pages being not scanned? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 21:23                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-13 12:21                                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-13 16:37                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-14 12:21                                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-15 13:14                                             ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 15:57                                               ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 18:34                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-16 18:49                                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-19 12:57                                                     ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-19 12:53                                                   ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 13:32                                       ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 16:19                                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 13:22                                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 14:38                                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 14:59                                               ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 15:06                                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-26 11:44                                     ` Newbie's question: memory allocation when reclaiming memory Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-05  8:46                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06 15:25                                 ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Linus Torvalds
2015-10-08 15:33                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-10 12:50                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:24                         ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? David Rientjes
2015-09-29  7:57                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-29 22:56                             ` David Rientjes
2015-09-30  4:25                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 10:21                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 21:11                                 ` David Rientjes
2015-10-01 12:13                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-01 14:48                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 13:06                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 18:45                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-07 11:03                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-07 12:00                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-08 14:04                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-08 14:01                       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-09-21 16:51               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 12:43                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 14:30                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 14:45                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:42               ` David Rientjes
2015-09-21 16:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 14:50   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 14:55     ` Oleg Nesterov

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