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Message-ID: <20180709123524.GK22049@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 14:35:24 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch v3] mm, oom: fix unnecessary killing of additional
processes
On Fri 06-07-18 17:05:39, David Rientjes wrote:
[...]
> Blockable mmu notifiers and mlocked memory is not the extent of the
> problem, if a process has a lot of virtual memory we must wait until
> free_pgtables() completes in exit_mmap() to prevent unnecessary oom
> killing. For implementations such as tcmalloc, which does not release
> virtual memory, this is important because, well, it releases this only at
> exit_mmap(). Of course we cannot do that with only the protection of
> mm->mmap_sem for read.
And how exactly a timeout helps to prevent from "unnecessary killing" in
that case?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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