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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kwalker@redhat.com, cl@linux.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	vdavydov@parallels.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skozina@redhat.com
Subject: Re: can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:28:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1509281526080.13657@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201509290118.BCJ43256.tSFFFMOLHVOJOQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> > The point I've tried to made is that oom unmapper running in a detached
> > context (e.g. kernel thread) vs. directly in the oom context doesn't
> > make any difference wrt. lock because the holders of the lock would loop
> > inside the allocator anyway because we do not fail small allocations.
> 
> We tried to allow small allocations to fail. It resulted in unstable system
> with obscure bugs.
> 

These are helpful to identify regardless of the outcome of this 
discussion.  I'm not sure where the best place to report them would be, 
or whether its even feasible to dig through looking for possibilities, but 
I think it would be interesting to see which callers are relying on 
internal page allocator implementation to work properly since it may 
uncover bugs that would occur later if it were changed.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28 22:28 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 [this message]
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
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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