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, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
hughd@google.com, riel@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mm, oom_reaper: How to handle race with oom_killer_disable() ?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:40:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160622064015.GB7520@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201606220647.GGD48936.LMtJVOOOFFQFHS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Wed 22-06-16 06:47:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 22-06-16 00:32:29, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Hmm, what about the following instead. It is rather a workaround than a
> > > > full flaged fix but it seems much more easier and shouldn't introduce
> > > > new issues.
> > >
> > > Yes, I think that will work. But I think below patch (marking signal_struct
> > > to ignore TIF_MEMDIE instead of clearing TIF_MEMDIE from task_struct) on top of
> > > current linux.git will implement no-lockup requirement. No race is possible unlike
> > > "[PATCH 10/10] mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init".
> >
> > Not really. Because without the exit_oom_victim from oom_reaper you have
> > no guarantee that the oom_killer_disable will ever return. I have
> > mentioned that in the changelog. There is simply no guarantee the oom
> > victim will ever reach exit_mm->exit_oom_victim.
>
> Why? Since any allocation after setting oom_killer_disabled = true will be
> forced to fail, nobody will be blocked on waiting for memory allocation. Thus,
> the TIF_MEMDIE tasks will eventually reach exit_mm->exit_oom_victim, won't it?
What if it gets blocked waiting for an operation which cannot make any
forward progress because it cannot proceed with an allocation (e.g.
an open coded allocation retry loop - not that uncommon when sending
a bio)? I mean if we want to guarantee a forward progress then there has
to be something to clear the flag no matter in what state the oom victim
is or give up on oom_killer_disable.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 14:23 mm, oom_reaper: How to handle race with oom_killer_disable() ? Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-13 11:19 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 8:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 11:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-21 11:46 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 13:27 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 15:32 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-21 17:46 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 21:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-22 6:40 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-06-22 6:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-22 10:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-22 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-22 12:15 ` Michal Hocko
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