linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

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Message-Id: <20110307135228.aad5a97d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:52:28 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:36:49 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Andrew Vagin wrote:
> 
> > > Andrey is patching the case where an eligible TIF_MEMDIE process is found
> > > but it has already detached its ->mm. __In combination with the patch
> > > posted to linux-mm, oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics,
> > > which makes select_bad_process() iterate over all threads, it is an
> > > effective solution.
> > 
> > Probably you said about the first version of my patch.
> > This version is incorrect because of
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd8e8f405ca386c7ce7cbb996ccd985d283b0e03
> > 
> > but my first patch is correct and it has a simple reproducer(I
> > attached it). You can execute it and your kernel hangs up, because the
> > parent doesn't wait children, but the one child (zombie) will have
> > flag TIF_MEMDIE, oom_killer will kill nobody
> > 
> 
> The second version of your patch works fine in combination with the 
> pending "oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics" patch from 
> linux-mm (included below).

Andrew's v2 doesn't apply on top of
oom-prevent-unnecessary-oom-kills-or-kernel-panics.patch and I'm
disinclined to fix that up and merge some untested patch combination.

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