From: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>,
"mhocko@kernel.org" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"mhocko@suse.com" <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom_adj: avoid meaningless loop to find processes sharing mm
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 17:38:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181008083855epcms1p20e691e5a001f3b94b267997c24e91128@epcms1p2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67eedc4c-7afa-e845-6c88-9716fd820de6@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
>
>On 2018/10/08 15:14, Yong-Taek Lee wrote:
>>> On 2018/10/08 10:19, Yong-Taek Lee wrote:
>>>> @@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ static int __set_oom_adj(struct file *file, int oom_adj, bool legacy)
>>>> struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
>>>> struct task_struct *task;
>>>> int err = 0;
>>>> + int mm_users = 0;
>>>>
>>>> task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file));
>>>> if (!task)
>>>> @@ -1092,7 +1093,8 @@ static int __set_oom_adj(struct file *file, int oom_adj, bool legacy)
>>>> struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(task);
>>>>
>>>> if (p) {
>>>> - if (atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) > 1) {
>>>> + mm_users = atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users);
>>>> + if ((mm_users > 1) && (mm_users != get_nr_threads(p))) {
>>>
>>> How can this work (even before this patch)? When clone(CLONE_VM without CLONE_THREAD/CLONE_SIGHAND)
>>> is requested, copy_process() calls copy_signal() in order to copy sig->oom_score_adj and
>>> sig->oom_score_adj_min before calling copy_mm() in order to increment mm->mm_users, doesn't it?
>>> Then, we will get two different "struct signal_struct" with different oom_score_adj/oom_score_adj_min
>>> but one "struct mm_struct" shared by two thread groups.
>>>
>>
>> Are you talking about race between __set_oom_adj and copy_process?
>> If so, i agree with your opinion. It can not set oom_score_adj properly for copied process if __set_oom_adj
>> check mm_users before copy_process calls copy_mm after copy_signal. Please correct me if i misunderstood anything.
>
> You understand it correctly.
>
> Reversing copy_signal() and copy_mm() is not sufficient either. We need to use a read/write lock
> (read lock for copy_process() and write lock for __set_oom_adj()) in order to make sure that
> the thread created by clone() becomes reachable from for_each_process() path in __set_oom_adj().
>
Thank you for your suggestion. But i think it would be better to seperate to 2 issues. How about think these
issues separately because there are no dependency between race issue and my patch. As i already explained,
for_each_process path is meaningless if there is only one thread group with many threads(mm_users > 1 but
no other thread group sharing same mm). Do you have any other idea to avoid meaningless loop ?
>>
>>>> mm = p->mm;
>>>> atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
>>>> }
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20181008011931epcms1p82dd01b7e5c067ea99946418bc97de46a@epcms1p8>
2018-10-08 1:19 ` [PATCH] mm, oom_adj: avoid meaningless loop to find processes sharing mm Yong-Taek Lee
2018-10-08 2:52 ` Tetsuo Handa
[not found] ` <CGME20181008011931epcms1p82dd01b7e5c067ea99946418bc97de46a@epcms1p5>
2018-10-08 6:14 ` Yong-Taek Lee
2018-10-08 6:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
[not found] ` <CGME20181008011931epcms1p82dd01b7e5c067ea99946418bc97de46a@epcms1p2>
2018-10-08 8:38 ` Yong-Taek Lee [this message]
2018-10-08 9:27 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 6:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 7:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 10:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 11:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 12:52 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 12:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 13:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 13:26 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 13:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 14:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 8:02 ` Michal Hocko
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