Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-08-14 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > From 3d9001490ee1a71f39c7bfaf19e96821f9d3ff16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andrea Arcangeli > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:02:27 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap to run > concurrently > > This is purely require

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-08-10 Thread Michal Hocko
On Thu 10-08-17 20:51:38, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > OK, let's agree to disagree. As I've said I like when the critical > section is explicit and we _know_ what it protects. In this case it is > clear that we have to protect from the page tables tear down and the > vma destructions. But as I've sa

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-08-10 Thread Michal Hocko
On Thu 10-08-17 20:05:54, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:16:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Andrea has proposed and alternative solution [4] which should be > > equivalent functionally similar to {ksm,khugepaged}_exit. I have to > > confess I really don't like that approac

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-08-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:16:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Andrea has proposed and alternative solution [4] which should be > equivalent functionally similar to {ksm,khugepaged}_exit. I have to > confess I really don't like that approach but I can live with it if > that is a preferred way (to

[PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-08-10 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users dropped down to 0. The race is as follows oom_reap_task

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Thu 27-07-17 16:55:59, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:50:24AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Yes this will work and it won't depend on the oom_lock. But isn't it > > just more ugly than simply doing > > > > if (tsk_is_oom_victim) { > > down_write(&mm->mmap_

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-27 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:50:24AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Yes this will work and it won't depend on the oom_lock. But isn't it > just more ugly than simply doing > > if (tsk_is_oom_victim) { > down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > locked = true; > } > fre

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Thu 27-07-17 13:59:09, Manish Jaggi wrote: [...] > With 4.11.6 I was getting random kernel panics (Out of memory - No process > left to kill), > when running LTP oom01 /oom02 ltp tests on our arm64 hardware with ~256G > memory and high core count. > The issue experienced was as follows >

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-27 Thread Manish Jaggi
Hi Michal, On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: From: Michal Hocko David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_use

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-26 Thread Michal Hocko
n_write(&mm->mmap_sem); locked = true; } free_pgtables(...) [...] if (locked) down_up(&mm->mmap_sem); in general I do not like empty locked sections much, to be honest. Now with the conditional locking my patch looks as fo

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-26 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 26-07-17 18:39:28, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:45:33AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Yes, exit_aio is the only blocking call I know of currently. But I would > > like this to be as robust as possible and so I do not want to rely on > > the current implementation. Th

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > From 3d9001490ee1a71f39c7bfaf19e96821f9d3ff16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andrea Arcangeli > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:02:27 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap to run > concurrently This n

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:45:33AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Yes, exit_aio is the only blocking call I know of currently. But I would > like this to be as robust as possible and so I do not want to rely on > the current implementation. This can change in future and I can > guarantee that nobody

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:45:57AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 25-07-17 21:19:52, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:04:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > > > + if (tsk_is_oom_victim(current)) > > > + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); >

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 21:19:52, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:04:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > > + if (tsk_is_oom_victim(current)) > > + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > > free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, USER_PGTABLES_

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 20:26:19, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:45:14PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > That problem is real though as reported by David. > > I'm not against fixing it, I just think it's not a major concern, and > the solution doesn't seem optimal as measured by Kiril

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:04:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > + if (tsk_is_oom_victim(current)) > + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, USER_PGTABLES_CEILING); > tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, 0, -1); > >

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:45:14PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > That problem is real though as reported by David. I'm not against fixing it, I just think it's not a major concern, and the solution doesn't seem optimal as measured by Kirill. I'm just skeptical it's the best to solve that tiny race

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 18:31:10, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:23:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > what is stdev? > > Updated tables: > > 3 runs before the patch: >Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max. Stdev > 177200 205000 212900 217800 223700 2377000 32868

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 17:26:39, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > > the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks >

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:23:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > what is stdev? Updated tables: 3 runs before the patch: Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max. Stdev 177200 205000 212900 217800 223700 2377000 32868 172400 201700 209700 214300 220600 1343000 31191 175700 203

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks > the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users d

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 18:17:54, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > before the patch > > min: 306300.00 max: 6731916.00 avg: 437962.07 std: 92898.30 nr: 10 > > > > after > > min: 303196.00 max: 5728080.00 avg: 436081.87 std: 96165.98 nr: 10 > > > > The results are well withing noise as I would expect

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 04:26:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 24-07-17 18:11:46, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Mon 24-07-17 17:51:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > [...] > > > > What kind of scalability implication you have i

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 18:07:19, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > Thanks for retesting Kirill. Are those numbers stable over runs? E.g. > > the run without the patch has ~3% variance while the one with the patch > > has it smaller. This so

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 25-07-17 17:17:23, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > [...] > > Below are numbers for the same test case, but from bigger machine (48 > > threads, 64GiB of RAM). > > > > v4.13-rc2: > > > > Performance counter stats for './a.sh 1

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 17:17:23, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: [...] > Below are numbers for the same test case, but from bigger machine (48 > threads, 64GiB of RAM). > > v4.13-rc2: > > Performance counter stats for './a.sh 10' (5 runs): > > 159857.233790 task-clock:u (msec) #1.000

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 24-07-17 18:11:46, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 24-07-17 17:51:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > What kind of scalability implication you have in mind? There is > > > basically a zero contention on the mmap_sem that

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-25 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 06:11:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 24-07-17 17:51:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > What kind of scalability implication you have in mind? There is > > > basically a zero contention on th

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-07-17 00:42:05, kbuild test robot wrote: > Hi Michal, > > [auto build test ERROR on mmotm/master] > [also build test ERROR on v4.13-rc2 next-20170724] > [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to > help improve the system] > > url: > https://github.co

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread kbuild test robot
Hi Michal, [auto build test ERROR on mmotm/master] [also build test ERROR on v4.13-rc2 next-20170724] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Michal-Hocko/mm-oom-allow-oom-reaper-to-race-

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 24-07-17 17:51:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > What kind of scalability implication you have in mind? There is > > basically a zero contention on the mmap_sem that late in the exit path > > so this should be pretty much

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Michal Hocko
Dohh, the full conflict resolution didn't make it into the commit. The full patch is below --- >From be69b355a56649167dce901d24c2296ef3a3f7ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:23:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mma

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 24-07-17 17:00:08, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > > >

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 24-07-17 17:00:08, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > > the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks

Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks > the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users d

[PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-24 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while the exiting oom victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users dropped down to 0. The race is as follows oom_reap_task

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 19-07-17 18:18:27, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > But I haven't looked at the oom_kill or oom_reaper end of it at all, > > perhaps you have an overriding argument on the placement from that end. > > Well, the main problem here is that the oom_reaper

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-20 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 19-07-17 18:18:27, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Thu 29-06-17 10:46:21, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Forgot to CC Hugh. > > > > > > Hugh, Andrew, do you see this could cause any problem wrt. > > > ksm/khugepaged exit path? > > > > ping. I would really a

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-19 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 29-06-17 10:46:21, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Forgot to CC Hugh. > > > > Hugh, Andrew, do you see this could cause any problem wrt. > > ksm/khugepaged exit path? > > ping. I would really appreciate some help here. I would like to resend > the patch s

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-18 Thread Michal Hocko
On Thu 29-06-17 10:46:21, Michal Hocko wrote: > Forgot to CC Hugh. > > Hugh, Andrew, do you see this could cause any problem wrt. > ksm/khugepaged exit path? ping. I would really appreciate some help here. I would like to resend the patch soon. > On Mon 26-06-17 15:03:46, Michal Hocko wrote: > >

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-12 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 11-07-17 13:40:04, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > This? > > --- > > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c > > index 5dc0ff22d567..e155d1d8064f 100644 > > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c > > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c > > @@ -470,11 +470,14 @@ static bool __oom_reap

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-11 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > This? > --- > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c > index 5dc0ff22d567..e155d1d8064f 100644 > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c > @@ -470,11 +470,14 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, > struct mm_struct *mm) > { >

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-10 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 10-07-17 16:55:22, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c > > index 3bd5ecd20d4d..253808e716dc 100644 > > --- a/mm/mmap.c > > +++ b/mm/mmap.c > > @@ -2962,6 +2962,11 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) > > /* Use -1

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-10 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after all > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took > more than one second. lock_anon_vma_root() from unlink_anon_vmas() from > free_pgtables() for example cal

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-07-10 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c > index 3bd5ecd20d4d..253808e716dc 100644 > --- a/mm/mmap.c > +++ b/mm/mmap.c > @@ -2962,6 +2962,11 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) > /* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */ > unma

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-29 Thread Michal Hocko
Forgot to CC Hugh. Hugh, Andrew, do you see this could cause any problem wrt. ksm/khugepaged exit path? On Mon 26-06-17 15:03:46, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > the existing victim hasn't terminated yet beca

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 27-06-17 23:26:22, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 27-06-17 22:31:58, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > > > shouldn't we try __oom_reap_task_mm() before calling these down_write() > > > if mm is OOM victim's? > > > > This is what we try. We simply try to get mmap_sem for read

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 27-06-17 22:31:58, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > > > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will > > > > > > after all > > > > > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 27-06-17 22:31:58, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after > > > > > all > > > > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write(

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after > > > > all > > > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took > > > > more than one second. > > >

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after all > > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took > > > more than one second. > > > > if we reach down_write then we have

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michal Hocko wrote: > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after all > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took > > more than one second. > > if we reach down_write then we have unmapped the address space in > exit_mmap and oom reaper c

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 27-06-17 19:52:03, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > > the existing victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks > > the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when m

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-27 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while > the existing victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks > the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users dropped down > to 0. The race is as follows >

[RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

2017-06-26 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while the existing victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users dropped down to 0. The race is as follows oom_reap_task