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

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:12:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.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 Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > > @@ -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;
> >
> > You can't do this for the reason I cited in another email, oom_badness()
> > returning 0 does not exclude a task from being chosen by
> > selcet_bad_process(), it will use that task if nothing else has been found
> > yet.  We must explicitly filter it from consideration by checking for
> > !p->mm.
> 
> Yes, you are right. OK, oom_badness() can never return points < 0,
> we can make it int and oom_badness() can return -1 if !mm. IOW,
> 
> 	- unsigned int points;
> 	+ int points;
> 	...
> 
> 	points = oom_badness(...);
> 	if (points >= 0 && (points > *ppoints || !chosen))
> 		chosen = p;
> 

oom_badness() and its predecessor badness() in mainline never return 
negative scores, so I don't see the value in doing this; just filter the 
task in select_bad_process() with !p->mm as it has always been done.
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