linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4] oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account

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Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:38:47 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	anfei <anfei.zhou@...il.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4] oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check
	should take ->mm into account

On 04/06, anfei wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > I do not really know what is the "right" solution. Even if we fix this
> > check for mt case, we also have CLONE_VM tasks.
> >
> What about checking mm->mm_users too? If there are any other users,
> just let badness judge.  CLONE_VM tasks but not mt seem rare, and
> badness doesn't consider it too.

Even if we forget about get_task_mm() which increments mm_users, it is not
clear to me how to do this check correctly.

Say, mm_users > 1 but SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set. This means this process is
exiting and (ignoring CLONE_VM task) it is going to release its ->mm. But
otoh mm can be NULL.

Perhaps we can do

	if ((PF_EXITING && thread_group_empty(p) ||
	    (p->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) {
		// OK, it is exiting

		bool has_mm = false;
		do {
			if (t->mm) {
				has_mm = true;
				break;
			}
		} while_each_thread(p, t);
			
		if (!has_mm)
			continue;

		if (p != current)
			return ERR_PTR(-1);
		...
	}

I dunno.

Oleg.

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