From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:58:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456750705-7141-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> (raw)
Hi,
I have posted this series [1] and there didn't seem to be any
fundamental objections except for x86 maintainers who preferred the asm
__down_write implementation which I have reworked for this series. Apart
from that I have refreshed on top of the current linux-next and fixed
one unused variable warning which happened to trigger a compilation
failure on ppc.
The following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users to use
a killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_reaper [2] to
asynchronously tear down the oom victim address space which requires
mmap_sem for read. This will reduce a likelihood of OOM livelocks caused
by oom victim being stuck on a lock or other resource which prevents it
to reach its exit path and release the memory. I haven't implemented
the killable variant of the read lock because I do not have any usecase
for this API.
The patchset is organized as follows.
- Patch 1 is a trivial cleanup
- Patch 2, I belive, shouldn't introduce any functional changes as per
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
- Patch 3 is the preparatory work and necessary infrastructure for
down_write_killable. It implements generic __down_write_killable
and prepares the write lock slow path to bail out earlier when told so
- Patch 4-1- are implementing arch specific __down_write_killable. One
patch per architecture.
- finally patch 11 implements down_write_killable and ties everything
together. I am not really an expert on lockdep so I hope I got it right.
Many of arch specific patches are basically same and I can squash them
into one patch if this is preferred but I thought that one patch per
arch is preferable.
My patch to change mmap_sem write users to killable form is not part of
the series because it is a larger change and I would like to prevent
from spamming people too much. I will post the series shortly.
I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
(basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
by SIGKILL.
Patches should apply cleanly on both Linus and next tree.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454444369-2146-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452094975-551-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Any feedback is highly appreciated.
next reply other threads:[~2016-02-29 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-29 12:58 Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 01/11] locking, rwsem: get rid of __down_write_nested Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 02/11] locking, rwsem: drop explicit memory barriers Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-03-30 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-31 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-31 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-31 8:55 ` [PATCH] " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 04/11] alpha, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 05/11] ia64, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 06/11] s390, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] sh, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] sparc, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] xtensa, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 11/11] locking, rwsem: provide down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-03-30 13:32 ` [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-31 8:59 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-31 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-31 10:58 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-31 17:03 ` Andrew Morton
2016-04-01 6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-01 9:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-01 10:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 7:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 9:11 ` Andrew Morton
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