linux-kernel - Re: [patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed

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Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:47:18 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	anfei <anfei.zhou@...il.com>,
	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] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has
	been killed

On 03/31, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> OK, but I guess this !p->mm check is still wrong for the same reason.
> In fact I do not understand why it is needed in select_bad_process()
> right before oom_badness() which checks ->mm too (and this check is
> equally wrong).

Probably something like the patch below makes sense. Note that
"skip kernel threads" logic is wrong too, we should check PF_KTHREAD.
Probably it is better to check it in select_bad_process() instead,
near is_global_init().

The new helper, find_lock_task_mm(), should be used by
oom_forkbomb_penalty() too.

dump_tasks() doesn't need it, it does do_each_thread(). Cough,
__out_of_memory() and out_of_memory() call it without tasklist.
We are going to panic() anyway, but still.

Oleg.

--- x/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ x/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ static unsigned long oom_forkbomb_penalt
 				(child_rss / sysctl_oom_forkbomb_thres) : 0;
 }
 
+static find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	struct task_struct *t = p;
+	do {
+		task_lock(t);
+		if (likely(t->mm && !(t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)))
+			return t;
+		task_unlock(t);
+	} while_each_thred(p, t);
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 /**
  * oom_badness - heuristic function to determine which candidate task to kill
  * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate
@@ -159,13 +172,9 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_str
 	if (p->flags & PF_OOM_ORIGIN)
 		return 1000;
 
-	task_lock(p);
-	mm = p->mm;
-	if (!mm) {
-		task_unlock(p);
+	p = find_lock_task_mm(p);
+	if (!p)
 		return 0;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
 	 * task's rss and swap space use.
@@ -330,12 +339,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr
 			*ppoints = 1000;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released
-		 * their mm.
-		 */
-		if (!p->mm)
-			continue;
 		if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN)
 			continue;
 

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