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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-12-13 01:56:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-13 21:42:49 +0100 |
| commit | d003f371b27016354c392464819530d47a915765 (patch) | |
| tree | 0615df29b862f71b0ef14d8079218ba9edb201fd /mm | |
| parent | mm: remove the highmem zones' memmap in the highmem zone (diff) | |
| download | linux-d003f371b27016354c392464819530d47a915765.tar.xz linux-d003f371b27016354c392464819530d47a915765.zip | |
oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soon
oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory
soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump.
A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread
can need more memory.
Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account,
we add the new trivial helper for that.
Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other
problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can
participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state,
so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set.
fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so
out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it.
And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread
can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index c6ac50e7d1c2..998fb1756d43 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, * select it. The goal is to allow it to allocate so that it may * quickly exit and free its memory. */ - if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || current->flags & PF_EXITING) { + if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current)) { set_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE); return; } diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 864bba992735..f694ef0d9f9a 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct task_struct *task, if (oom_task_origin(task)) return OOM_SCAN_SELECT; - if (task->flags & PF_EXITING && !force_kill) { + if (task_will_free_mem(task) && !force_kill) { /* * If this task is not being ptraced on exit, then wait for it * to finish before killing some other task unnecessarily. @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, * 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) { + if (task_will_free_mem(p)) { set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE); put_task_struct(p); return; @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, * select it. The goal is to allow it to allocate so that it may * quickly exit and free its memory. */ - if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || current->flags & PF_EXITING) { + if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current)) { set_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE); return; } |