linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1-5] make request

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Date:	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:44:23 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, fhrbata@...hat.com,
	rientjes@...gle.com, apw@...onical.com,
	john.johansen@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1-5] make request_module() killable

On 02/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> OK. I am convinced we need this ;) Thanks Tetsuo.

So. Please see the attachments. COMPLETELY UNTESTED, only for
review/discussion.

For those who were not CC'ed. As Tetsuo pointed out, request_module()
is very much unfriendly wrt OOM. It needs "a lot" of time/memory to
finish while the caller is blocked in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

	0001-usermodehelper-kill-umh_wait-renumber-UMH_-consta.patch
	0002-usermodehelper-introduce-umh_complete-sub_info.patch
	0003-usermodehelper-implement-UMH_KILLABLE.patch

this adds UMH_KILLABLE,

	0004-kmod-introduce-call_modprobe-helper.patch
	0005-kmod-make-__request_module-killable.patch

this changes __request_module() to use UMH_KILLABLE.

Perhaps we should also mark the modprobe process as OOM_ADJUST_MAX.

What do you all think?

Oleg.

 include/linux/kmod.h        |   18 ++++-----
 kernel/kmod.c               |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 security/keys/request_key.c |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


View attachment "0001-usermodehelper-kill-umh_wait-renumber-UMH_-consta.patch" of type "text/plain" (4139 bytes)

View attachment "0002-usermodehelper-introduce-umh_complete-sub_info.patch" of type "text/plain" (1257 bytes)

View attachment "0003-usermodehelper-implement-UMH_KILLABLE.patch" of type "text/plain" (2800 bytes)

View attachment "0004-kmod-introduce-call_modprobe-helper.patch" of type "text/plain" (1982 bytes)

View attachment "0005-kmod-make-__request_module-killable.patch" of type "text/plain" (1705 bytes)