> Od: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> > Komu: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong...@intel.com> > Dátum: 28.11.2013 07:54 > Predmet: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit > > CC: "a...@linux-foundation.org" <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "mho...@suse.cz" > <mho...@suse.cz>, "rient...@google.com" <rient...@google.com>, > "ru...@rustcorp.com.au" <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>, "linux...@kvack.org" > <linux...@kvack.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "'Peter Zijlstra'" <pet...@infradead.org>, > "'gre...@linuxfoundation.org'" <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>, "Tu, Xiaobing" > <xiaobing...@intel.com>, "William Dauchy" <wdau...@gmail.com> >Cc William and azur who might have encountered this problem. > >On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 05:09:16AM +0000, Ma, Xindong wrote: >> From: Leon Ma <xindong...@intel.com> >> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:46:09 +0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit >> >> There is a race between oom kill and task exit. Scenario is: >> TASK A TASK B >> TASK B is selected to oom kill >> in oom_kill_process() >> check PF_EXITING of TASK B >> task call do_exit() >> task set PF_EXITING flag >> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); >> remove TASK B from thread group in >> __unhash_process() >> write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); >> read_lock(&tasklist_lock); >> traverse threads of TASK B >> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); >> >> After that, the following traversal of threads in TASK B will not end >> because TASK B is not in the thread group: >> do { >> .... >> } while_each_thread(p, t); >> >> Signed-off-by: Leon Ma <xindong...@intel.com> >> Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing...@intel.com> >> --- >> mm/oom_kill.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- >> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c >> index 1e4a600..32ec88d 100644 >> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c >> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c >> @@ -412,16 +412,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t >> gfp_mask, int order, >> static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL, >> DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST); >> >> - /* >> - * 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) { >> - set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE); >> - put_task_struct(p); >> - return; >> - } >> - >> if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs)) >> dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, memcg, nodemask); >> >> @@ -437,6 +427,16 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t >> gfp_mask, int order, >> * still freeing memory. >> */ >> read_lock(&tasklist_lock); >> + /* >> + * 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) { >> + set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE); >> + put_task_struct(p); >> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); >> + return; >> + } >> do { >> list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) { >> unsigned int child_points; >> -- >> 1.7.4.1 >> >
Hi Johannes, thank you very much! Fortunately, i didn't notice anything like this yet. azur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/