linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm: improve OOM mechanism v2

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2015 14:02:10 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm: improve OOM mechanism v2

Hi Andrew,

since patches 8 and 9 are still controversial, would you mind picking
up just 1-7 for now?  They're cleaunps nice to have on their own.

Thanks,
Johannes

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:05:46PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> There is a possible deadlock scenario between the page allocator and
> the OOM killer.  Most allocations currently retry forever inside the
> page allocator, but when the OOM killer is invoked the chosen victim
> might try taking locks held by the allocating task.  This series, on
> top of many cleanups in the allocator & OOM killer, grants such OOM-
> killing allocations access to the system's memory reserves in order
> for them to make progress without relying on their own kill to exit.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - drop GFP_NOFS deadlock fix (Dave Chinner)
> - drop low-order deadlock fix (Michal Hocko)
> - fix missing oom_lock in sysrq+f (Michal Hocko)
> - fix PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY retry condition (Michal Hocko)
> - ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS only for OOM victims, not all killed tasks (Tetsuo Handa)
> - bump OOM wait timeout from 1s to 5s (Vlastimil Babka & Michal Hocko)
> 
>  drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/sysrq.c                       |   2 +
>  include/linux/oom.h                       |  12 +-
>  kernel/exit.c                             |   2 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c                           |  20 ++--
>  mm/oom_kill.c                             | 167 +++++++---------------------
>  mm/page_alloc.c                           | 161 ++++++++++++---------------
>  7 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
> 
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