Hi Andrew, since patches 8 and 9 are still controversial, would you mind picking up just 1-7 for now? They're cleaunps nice to have on their own.
Thanks, Johannes On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:05:46PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > There is a possible deadlock scenario between the page allocator and > the OOM killer. Most allocations currently retry forever inside the > page allocator, but when the OOM killer is invoked the chosen victim > might try taking locks held by the allocating task. This series, on > top of many cleanups in the allocator & OOM killer, grants such OOM- > killing allocations access to the system's memory reserves in order > for them to make progress without relying on their own kill to exit. > > Changes since v1: > - drop GFP_NOFS deadlock fix (Dave Chinner) > - drop low-order deadlock fix (Michal Hocko) > - fix missing oom_lock in sysrq+f (Michal Hocko) > - fix PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY retry condition (Michal Hocko) > - ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS only for OOM victims, not all killed tasks (Tetsuo > Handa) > - bump OOM wait timeout from 1s to 5s (Vlastimil Babka & Michal Hocko) > > drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 2 +- > drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 2 + > include/linux/oom.h | 12 +- > kernel/exit.c | 2 +- > mm/memcontrol.c | 20 ++-- > mm/oom_kill.c | 167 +++++++--------------------- > mm/page_alloc.c | 161 ++++++++++++--------------- > 7 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-) > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majord...@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"d...@kvack.org";> em...@kvack.org </a> -- 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/
