From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com, oleg@redhat.com,
vdavydov@parallels.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are no external tasks sharing mm
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160526145930.GF23675@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201605262330.EEB52182.OtMFOJHFLOSFVQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Thu 26-05-16 23:30:06, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > index 5bb2f7698ad7..0e33e912f7e4 100644
> > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > @@ -820,6 +820,13 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
> > task_unlock(victim);
> >
> > /*
> > + * skip expensive iterations over all tasks if we know that there
> > + * are no users outside of threads in the same thread group
> > + */
> > + if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= get_nr_threads(victim))
> > + goto oom_reap;
>
> Is this really safe? Isn't it possible that victim thread's thread group has
> more than atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) threads which are past exit_mm() and blocked
> at exit_task_work() which are before __exit_signal() from release_task() from
> exit_notify()?
You are right. The race window between exit_mm and __exit_signal is
really large. I thought about == check instead but that wouldn't work
for the same reason, dang, it looked so promissing.
Scratch this patch then.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-26 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-26 12:40 [PATCH 0/5] Handle oom bypass more gracefully Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are no external tasks sharing mm Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 14:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-26 14:59 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-05-26 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are noexternal " Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-26 15:35 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are no external " Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-27 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 7:15 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 8:03 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] proc, oom_adj: extract oom_score_adj setting into a helper Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 11:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 16:18 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 7:07 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 8:47 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 9:39 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 10:26 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 11:11 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 12:19 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 12:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm, oom: skip over vforked tasks Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 16:48 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 7:13 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 9:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 10:40 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 10:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm, oom: kill all tasks sharing the mm Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 12:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm, oom: fortify task_will_free_mem Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 14:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-26 14:23 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-26 14:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-26 14:56 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 16:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] Handle oom bypass more gracefully Michal Hocko
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