[PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Ma, Xindong]

From: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:46:09 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

There is a race between oom kill and task exit. Scenario is:
   TASK  A                      TASK  B
TASK B is selected to oom kill
in oom_kill_process()
check PF_EXITING of TASK B
                            task call do_exit()
                            task set PF_EXITING flag
                            write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
                            remove TASK B from thread group in __unhash_process()
                            write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
traverse threads of TASK B
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

After that, the following traversal of threads in TASK B will not end because TASK B is not in the thread group:
do {
....
} while_each_thread(p, t);

Signed-off-by: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 1e4a600..32ec88d 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -412,16 +412,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
 	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
 					      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
 
-	/*
-	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
-	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
-	 */
-	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
-		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
-		put_task_struct(p);
-		return;
-	}
-
 	if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs))
 		dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, memcg, nodemask);
 
@@ -437,6 +427,16 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
 	 * still freeing memory.
 	 */
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	/*
+	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
+	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
+	 */
+	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
+		put_task_struct(p);
+		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+		return;
+	}
 	do {
 		list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
 			unsigned int child_points;
-- 
1.7.4.1

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Johannes Weiner]

Cc William and azur who might have encountered this problem.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 05:09:16AM +0000, Ma, Xindong wrote:
> From: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:46:09 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
> 
> There is a race between oom kill and task exit. Scenario is:
>    TASK  A                      TASK  B
> TASK B is selected to oom kill
> in oom_kill_process()
> check PF_EXITING of TASK B
>                             task call do_exit()
>                             task set PF_EXITING flag
>                             write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>                             remove TASK B from thread group in __unhash_process()
>                             write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> traverse threads of TASK B
> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> 
> After that, the following traversal of threads in TASK B will not end because TASK B is not in the thread group:
> do {
> ....
> } while_each_thread(p, t);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 1e4a600..32ec88d 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -412,16 +412,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>  	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
>  					      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
> -	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
> -	 */
> -	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> -		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> -		put_task_struct(p);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
>  	if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs))
>  		dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, memcg, nodemask);
>  
> @@ -437,6 +427,16 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>  	 * still freeing memory.
>  	 */
>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
> +	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
> +	 */
> +	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> +		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> +		put_task_struct(p);
> +		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
>  	do {
>  		list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
>  			unsigned int child_points;
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[William Dauchy]

Hi Johannes,

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> Cc William and azur who might have encountered this problem.

Thank you for letting me know.
Note that before this patch I saw the one from Sameer Nanda
mm, oom: Fix race when selecting process to kill
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/13/336

After applying this later one, I still have the issue I sent you (oom
killing a task outside cgroup i.e Task in / killed as a result of
limit of /lxc/foo) *but* I don't have a crash any more. So I was in
the process of reapplying your debug patch to send you a new report.

However, I'm now wondering if this present patch is a replacement of
Sameer Nanda's patch or if this a complementary patch.

Thanks,
-- 
William

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[azurIt]

> Od: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Komu: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com>
> Dátum: 28.11.2013 07:54
> Predmet: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
>
> CC: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "mhocko@suse.cz" <mhocko@suse.cz>, "rientjes@google.com" <rientjes@google.com>, "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "'Peter Zijlstra'" <peterz@infradead.org>, "'gregkh@linuxfoundation.org'" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>, "William Dauchy" <wdauchy@gmail.com>
>Cc William and azur who might have encountered this problem.
>
>On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 05:09:16AM +0000, Ma, Xindong wrote:
>> From: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:46:09 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
>> 
>> There is a race between oom kill and task exit. Scenario is:
>>    TASK  A                      TASK  B
>> TASK B is selected to oom kill
>> in oom_kill_process()
>> check PF_EXITING of TASK B
>>                             task call do_exit()
>>                             task set PF_EXITING flag
>>                             write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>>                             remove TASK B from thread group in __unhash_process()
>>                             write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>> read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>> traverse threads of TASK B
>> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>> 
>> After that, the following traversal of threads in TASK B will not end because TASK B is not in the thread group:
>> do {
>> ....
>> } while_each_thread(p, t);
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/oom_kill.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
>>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> index 1e4a600..32ec88d 100644
>> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
>> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> @@ -412,16 +412,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>>  	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
>>  					      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
>>  
>> -	/*
>> -	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
>> -	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
>> -	 */
>> -	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
>> -		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
>> -		put_task_struct(p);
>> -		return;
>> -	}
>> -
>>  	if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs))
>>  		dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, memcg, nodemask);
>>  
>> @@ -437,6 +427,16 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>>  	 * still freeing memory.
>>  	 */
>>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
>> +	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
>> +	 */
>> +	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
>> +		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
>> +		put_task_struct(p);
>> +		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>>  	do {
>>  		list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
>>  			unsigned int child_points;
>> -- 
>> 1.7.4.1
>> 
>




Hi Johannes,

thank you very much! Fortunately, i didn't notice anything like this yet.

azur

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Michal Hocko]

[CCing Oleg - the thread started here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/28/2]

On Thu 28-11-13 09:41:40, William Dauchy wrote:
[...]
> However, I'm now wondering if this present patch is a replacement of
> Sameer Nanda's patch or if this a complementary patch.

They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
optimal unfortunately. Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
some patches but didn't geto check them.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Vladimir Murzin]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:00:18PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [CCing Oleg - the thread started here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/28/2]
> 
> On Thu 28-11-13 09:41:40, William Dauchy wrote:
> [...]
> > However, I'm now wondering if this present patch is a replacement of
> > Sameer Nanda's patch or if this a complementary patch.
> 
> They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
> optimal unfortunately. Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
> some patches but didn't geto check them.

CCing Sergey - he reported and proposed the patch for the similar issue.

Vladimir

> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/28, Ma, Xindong wrote:
>
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -412,16 +412,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>  	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
>  					      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
> -	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
> -	 */
> -	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> -		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> -		put_task_struct(p);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
>  	if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs))
>  		dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, memcg, nodemask);
>  
> @@ -437,6 +427,16 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>  	 * still freeing memory.
>  	 */
>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
> +	 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
> +	 */
> +	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> +		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> +		put_task_struct(p);
> +		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +		return;
> +	}

I got lost... didn't we recently discussed the similar patch from Sameer?

This one doesn't look right. find_lock_task_mm() after unlock(tasklist)
can hit the same problem.

I belive the patch from Sameer was correct.

Oleg.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
> optimal unfortunately.

yes, but this one doesn't look right.

> Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
> some patches but didn't geto check them.

Only preparations so far.

Oleg.

RE: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Ma, Xindong]

> From: Oleg Nesterov [mailto:oleg@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:39 AM
> To: Michal Hocko
> Cc: William Dauchy; Johannes Weiner; Ma, Xindong;
> akpm@linux-foundation.org; rientjes@google.com; rusty@rustcorp.com.au;
> linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra;
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Tu, Xiaobing; azurIt; Sameer Nanda
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
> 
> On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
> > optimal unfortunately.
> 
> yes, but this one doesn't look right.
> 
> > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen some patches but
> > didn't geto check them.
> 
> Only preparations so far.
> 
> Oleg.

I was not aware there's a long story for this issue. I hit this issue a lot of times during stress test and root caused it. After applying my patch, I did extensive test on 5 machines for a long time, it does not reproduced anymore so I submitted the patch.

I will do more research on this issue.

RE: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Tu, Xiaobing]

We will do more stress test in more machine at the same time

-----Original Message-----
From: Ma, Xindong 
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 10:06 AM
To: Oleg Nesterov; Michal Hocko
Cc: William Dauchy; Johannes Weiner; akpm@linux-foundation.org; rientjes@google.com; rusty@rustcorp.com.au; linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Tu, Xiaobing; azurIt; Sameer Nanda
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

> From: Oleg Nesterov [mailto:oleg@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:39 AM
> To: Michal Hocko
> Cc: William Dauchy; Johannes Weiner; Ma, Xindong; 
> akpm@linux-foundation.org; rientjes@google.com; rusty@rustcorp.com.au; 
> linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra; 
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Tu, Xiaobing; azurIt; Sameer Nanda
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
> 
> On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is 
> > optimal unfortunately.
> 
> yes, but this one doesn't look right.
> 
> > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen some patches but 
> > didn't geto check them.
> 
> Only preparations so far.
> 
> Oleg.

I was not aware there's a long story for this issue. I hit this issue a lot of times during stress test and root caused it. After applying my patch, I did extensive test on 5 machines for a long time, it does not reproduced anymore so I submitted the patch.

I will do more research on this issue.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
> > optimal unfortunately.
>
> yes, but this one doesn't look right.
>
> > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
> > some patches but didn't geto check them.
>
> Only preparations so far.

OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
selecting process to kill".

Oleg.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
> that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
> selecting process to kill".
> 

Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have 
additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for 
stable?

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 12/04, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
> > that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
> > selecting process to kill".
>
> Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
> additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
> stable?

Unlikely...

I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
(and obviously incomplete) fix.

Oleg.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > > OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
> > > that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
> > > selecting process to kill".
> >
> > Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
> > additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
> > stable?
> 
> Unlikely...
> 
> I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
> (and obviously incomplete) fix.
> 

There's a problem because none of this is currently even in linux-next.  I 
think we could make a case for getting Sameer's patch at 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138436313021133 to be merged for 
stable, but then we'd have to revert it in linux-next before merging your 
series at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138616217925981.  All of the 
issues you present in that series seem to be stable material, so why not 
just go ahead with your series and mark it for stable for 3.13?

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 12/05, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > > Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
> > > additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
> > > stable?
> >
> > Unlikely...
> >
> > I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
> > (and obviously incomplete) fix.
>
> There's a problem because none of this is currently even in linux-next.  I
> think we could make a case for getting Sameer's patch at
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138436313021133 to be merged for
> stable,

Probably.

Ah, I just noticed that this change

	-	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
	+	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING || !pid_alive(p)) {

is not needed. !pid_alive(p) obviously implies PF_EXITING.

> but then we'd have to revert it in linux-next

Or perhaps Sameer can just send his fix to stable/gregkh.

Just the changelog should clearly explain that this is the minimal
workaround for stable. Once again it doesn't (and can't) fix all
problems even in oom_kill_process() paths, but it helps anyway to
avoid the easy-to-trigger hang.

> before merging your
> series at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138616217925981.

Just in case, I won't mind to rediff my patches on top of Sameer's
patch and then add git-revert patch.

> All of the
> issues you present in that series seem to be stable material, so why not
> just go ahead with your series and mark it for stable for 3.13?

OK... I can do this too.

I do not really like this because it adds thread_head/node but doesn't
remove the old ->thread_group. We will do this later, but obviously
this is not the stable material.

IOW, if we send this to stable, thread_head/node/for_each_thread will
be only used by oom_kill.c.

And this is risky. For example, 1/4 depends on (at least) another patch
I sent in preparation for this change, commit 81907739851
"kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): don't add the uninitialized
child to thread/task/pid lists", perhaps on something else.

So personally I'd prefer to simply send the workaround for stable.

Oleg.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 12/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> And this is risky. For example, 1/4 depends on (at least) another patch
> I sent in preparation for this change, commit 81907739851
> "kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): don't add the uninitialized
> child to thread/task/pid lists", perhaps on something else.

Hmm. not too much actually, I re-checked v3.10:kernel/copy_process.c.
Yes, list_add(thread_node)) in copy_process() can add the new thread
with the wrong pids, but somehow I forgot that list_add(thread_group)
in v3.10 has the same problem, so this probably doesn't matter and
we can safely backport this change.

> So personally I'd prefer to simply send the workaround for stable.

Yes, anyway, bacause I will sleep better ;)

But OK, if you think it would be better to mark 1-4 series I sent
for stable - I won't argue.

Oleg.

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[Sameer Nanda]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/05, David Rientjes wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> > > Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
>> > > additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
>> > > stable?
>> >
>> > Unlikely...
>> >
>> > I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
>> > (and obviously incomplete) fix.
>>
>> There's a problem because none of this is currently even in linux-next.  I
>> think we could make a case for getting Sameer's patch at
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138436313021133 to be merged for
>> stable,
>
> Probably.
>
> Ah, I just noticed that this change
>
>         -       if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
>         +       if (p->flags & PF_EXITING || !pid_alive(p)) {
>
> is not needed. !pid_alive(p) obviously implies PF_EXITING.

Ah right.

>
>> but then we'd have to revert it in linux-next
>
> Or perhaps Sameer can just send his fix to stable/gregkh.
>
> Just the changelog should clearly explain that this is the minimal
> workaround for stable. Once again it doesn't (and can't) fix all
> problems even in oom_kill_process() paths, but it helps anyway to
> avoid the easy-to-trigger hang.

I don't mind doing that if that seems to be the consensus.  FWIW, I've
already added my patch to the Chrome OS kernel repo.

>
>> before merging your
>> series at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138616217925981.
>
> Just in case, I won't mind to rediff my patches on top of Sameer's
> patch and then add git-revert patch.
>
>> All of the
>> issues you present in that series seem to be stable material, so why not
>> just go ahead with your series and mark it for stable for 3.13?
>
> OK... I can do this too.
>
> I do not really like this because it adds thread_head/node but doesn't
> remove the old ->thread_group. We will do this later, but obviously
> this is not the stable material.
>
> IOW, if we send this to stable, thread_head/node/for_each_thread will
> be only used by oom_kill.c.
>
> And this is risky. For example, 1/4 depends on (at least) another patch
> I sent in preparation for this change, commit 81907739851
> "kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): don't add the uninitialized
> child to thread/task/pid lists", perhaps on something else.
>
> So personally I'd prefer to simply send the workaround for stable.
>
> Oleg.
>



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Sameer