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Message-ID: <20181009125841.GP8528@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:58:41 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: ytk.lee@...sung.com, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom_adj: avoid meaningless loop to find processes
sharing mm
On Tue 09-10-18 21:52:12, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2018/10/09 20:10, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 09-10-18 19:00:44, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >>> 2) add OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN and do not kill tasks sharing mm and do not
> >>> reap the mm in the rare case of the race.
> >>
> >> That is no problem. The mistake we made in 4.6 was that we updated oom_score_adj
> >> to -1000 (and allowed unprivileged users to OOM-lockup the system).
> >
> > I do not follow.
> >
>
> http://tomoyo.osdn.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/source/mm/oom_kill.c?v=linux-4.6.7#L493
Ahh, so you are not referring to the current upstream code. Do you see
any specific problem with the current one (well, except for the possible
race which I have tried to evaluate).
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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