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Message-ID: <20131222150918.GB12544@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:09:18 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vaibhav Shinde <v.bhav.shinde@...il.com>,
Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skip increamenting nr for TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
Vaibhav,
again, I think that everything was explained by Linus, let me
add some details.
> > In coredump case, where thread_1 faults while thread_2 is in
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, it cannot handle the SIGKILL.
> > Thus the process hangs on event.
> > The coredump routine freezes until the thread state is
> > uninterruptible.
Yes. But why we should even try to "fix" coredump in this case?
> > Solution: Continue for coredump, without waiting for uninterruptible
> > thread,
This can't work, please see below.
> > as it will get killed as soon as it returns from
> > uninterruptible state.
Not necessarily. It can play with ->mm before it notices the pending
SIGKILL. And, if nothing else, the coredumping paths do not even take
mmap_sem because we assume that the dumper is the only user.
But even if this doesn't happen,
> > Therefore do not increament thread count for threads with
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.
This is very wrong too. This means that we can start the coredump before
the _accounted_ thread exits (because a skipped thread can exit first and
decrement the counter). This also means that coredump_finish() can race
with the unaccounted threads.
> > sigaddset(&t->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
> > signal_wake_up(t, 1);
> > - nr++;
> > + if(!(t->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE))
> > + nr++;
Again, we can't simply check t->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. This can
be false positive or it can sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE right after
the check. And even "& TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE" is wrong, please look at
TASK_KILLABLE.
Oleg.
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