From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/madvise: add process_madvise MADV_DONTNEER support
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:59:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJuCfpFJFZyOANvmOn0sw-sDDrk4WFgtLcRtQBKOSELohWaDuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez1M5tT=4T2RREhs1U3yMJH2N7HPWySBnMJyMSg0WtdD2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:40 PM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:50 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote:
> > In modern systems it's not unusual to have a system component monitoring
> > memory conditions of the system and tasked with keeping system memory
> > pressure under control. One way to accomplish that is to kill
> > non-essential processes to free up memory for more important ones.
> > Examples of this are Facebook's OOM killer daemon called oomd and
> > Android's low memory killer daemon called lmkd.
> > For such system component it's important to be able to free memory
> > quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately the time process takes to free
> > up its memory after receiving a SIGKILL might vary based on the state
> > of the process (uninterruptible sleep), size and OPP level of the core
> > the process is running.
> > In such situation it is desirable to be able to free up the memory of the
> > process being killed in a more controlled way.
> > Enable MADV_DONTNEED to be used with process_madvise when applied to a
> > dying process to reclaim its memory. This would allow userspace system
> > components like oomd and lmkd to free memory of the target process in
> > a more predictable way.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> [...]
> > @@ -1239,6 +1256,23 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
> > goto release_task;
> > }
> >
> > + if (madvise_destructive(behavior)) {
> > + /* Allow destructive madvise only on a dying processes */
> > + if (!signal_group_exit(task->signal)) {
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + goto release_mm;
> > + }
>
> Technically Linux allows processes to share mm_struct without being in
> the same thread group, so I'm not sure whether this check is good
> enough? AFAICS the normal OOM killer deals with this case by letting
> __oom_kill_process() always kill all tasks that share the mm_struct.
Thanks for the comment Jann.
You are right. I think replacing !signal_group_exit(task->signal) with
task_will_free_mem(task) would address both your and Oleg's comments.
IIUC, task_will_free_mem() calls __task_will_free_mem() on the task
itself and on all processes sharing the mm_struct ensuring that they
are all dying.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-24 5:39 [PATCH 0/2] userspace memory reaping using process_madvise Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-11-24 5:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/madvise: allow process_madvise operations on entire memory range Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-11-25 23:13 ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-25 23:23 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-11-25 23:43 ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-30 19:01 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-12-08 7:23 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-12-11 20:27 ` Jann Horn
2020-12-11 23:01 ` Minchan Kim
2020-12-12 0:16 ` Jann Horn
2020-12-22 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-22 17:48 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-12-23 4:09 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-12-23 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-23 17:32 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-11-24 5:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/madvise: add process_madvise MADV_DONTNEER support Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-11-24 13:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-11-24 16:42 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-12-08 23:40 ` Jann Horn
2020-12-08 23:59 ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
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