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Message-Id: <20090730190216.5aae685a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:02:16 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm v2] mm: introduce oom_adj_child
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:31:04 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>
> > 1. IIUC, the name is strange.
> >
> > At job scheduler, which does this.
> >
> > if (vfork() == 0) {
> > /* do some job */
> > execve(.....)
> > }
> >
> > Then, when oom_adj_child can be effective is after execve().
> > IIUC, the _child_ means a process created by vfork().
> >
>
> It's certainly a difficult thing to name and I don't claim that "child" is
> completely accurate since, as you said, vfork'd tasks are also children
> of the parent yet they share the same oom_adj value since it's an
> attribute of the shared mm.
>
> If you have suggestions for a better name, I'd happily ack it.
>
Simply, reset_oom_adj_at_new_mm_context or some.
> > 2. More simple plan is like this, IIUC.
> >
> > fix oom-killer's select_bad_process() not to be in deadlock.
> >
>
> Alternate ideas?
>
At brief thiking.
1. move oom_adj from mm_struct to signal struct. or somewhere.
(see copy_signal())
Then,
- all threads in a process will have the same oom_adj.
- vfork()'ed thread will inherit its parent's oom_adj.
- vfork()'ed thread can override oom_adj of its own.
In other words, oom_adj is shared when CLONE_PARENT is not set.
2. rename mm_struct's oom_adj as shadow_oom_adj.
update this shadow_oom_adj as the highest oom_adj among
the values all threads share this mm_struct have.
This update is done when
- mm_init()
- oom_adj is written.
User's
# echo XXXX > /proc/<x>/oom_adj
is not necessary to be very very fast.
I don't think a process which calls vfork() is multi-threaded.
3. use shadow_oom_adj in select_bad_process().
> > rather than this new stupid interface.
> >
>
> Well, thank you. Regardless of whether you think it's stupid or not, it
> doesn't allow you to livelock the kernel in a very trivial way when the
> oom killer gets invoked prior to execve() and the parent is OOM_DISABLE.
>
just plz consider more.
Thanks,
-Kame
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