linux-kernel - [patch 7/7] oom: prevent possible OOM

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 17:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, San Mehat <san@...roid.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 7/7] oom: prevent possible OOM_DISABLE livelock

It is currently possible to livelock the oom killer if a task is chosen
for oom kill and another thread sharing the same memory has an oom_adj
value of OOM_DISABLE.  This occurs because oom_kill_task() repeatedly
returns 1 and refuses to kill the chosen task while select_bad_process()
will repeatedly chooses the same task during the next retry.

This moves the check for OOM_DISABLE to the badness heuristic while
holding task_lock().  Badness scores of 0 are now explicitly prohibited
from being oom killed and since the oom_adj value is a characteristic of
an mm and not a task, it is no longer necessary to check the oom_adj
value for threads sharing the same memory (except when simply issuing
SIGKILLs for threads in other thread groups).

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c |   40 ++++++++++------------------------------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
 		return 0;
 	}
 	oom_adj = mm->oom_adj;
+	if (oom_adj == OOM_DISABLE) {
+		task_unlock(p);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
@@ -253,13 +257,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
 			*ppoints = ULONG_MAX;
 		}
 
-		task_lock(p);
-		if (p->mm && p->mm->oom_adj == OOM_DISABLE)
-			continue;
-		task_unlock(p);
-
 		points = badness(p, uptime.tv_sec);
-		if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) {
+		if (points > *ppoints) {
 			chosen = p;
 			*ppoints = points;
 		}
@@ -352,32 +351,13 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	struct task_struct *g, *q;
 
+	task_lock(p);
 	mm = p->mm;
-
-	/* WARNING: mm may not be dereferenced since we did not obtain its
-	 * value from get_task_mm(p).  This is OK since all we need to do is
-	 * compare mm to q->mm below.
-	 *
-	 * Furthermore, even if mm contains a non-NULL value, p->mm may
-	 * change to NULL at any time since we do not hold task_lock(p).
-	 * However, this is of no concern to us.
-	 */
-
-	if (mm == NULL)
+	if (!mm || mm->oom_adj == OOM_DISABLE) {
+		task_unlock(p);
 		return 1;
-
-	/*
-	 * Don't kill the process if any threads are set to OOM_DISABLE
-	 */
-	do_each_thread(g, q) {
-		task_lock(q);
-		if (q->mm == mm && q->mm && q->mm->oom_adj == OOM_DISABLE) {
-			task_unlock(q);
-			return 1;
-		}
-		task_unlock(q);
-	} while_each_thread(g, q);
-
+	}
+	task_unlock(p);
 	__oom_kill_task(p, 1);
 
 	/*
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