linux-kernel - Re: Possible race condition in oom-killer

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Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2017 16:47:49 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:     mjaggi@...iumnetworks.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Possible race condition in oom-killer

On Tue 01-08-17 23:16:13, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> >                       Once we merge [1] then the oom victim wouldn't
> > need to get TIF_MEMDIE to access memory reserves.
> > 
> > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170727090357.3205-2-mhocko@kernel.org
> 
> False. We are not setting oom_mm to all thread groups (!CLONE_THREAD) sharing
> that mm (CLONE_VM). Thus, one thread from each thread group sharing that mm
> will have to call out_of_memory() in order to set oom_mm, and they will find
> task_will_free_mem() returning false due to MMF_OOM_SKIP already set, and
> after all goes to next OOM victim selection.

Once the patch is merged we can mark_oom_victim all of them as well.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs