linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom

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Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:15:59 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>, mingo@...nel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, esyr@...hat.com,
        christian@...lner.me, areber@...hat.com,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, cyphar@...har.com,
        adobriyan@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in
 __set_oom_adj when not necessary

On 08/20, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> That said if we are going for a small change why not:
>
> 	/*
> 	 * Make sure we will check other processes sharing the mm if this is
> 	 * not vfrok which wants its own oom_score_adj.
> 	 * pin the mm so it doesn't go away and get reused after task_unlock
> 	 */
> 	if (!task->vfork_done) {
> 		struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(task);
>
> 		if (p) {
> -			if (atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) > 1) {
> +			if (atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) > p->signal->nr_threads) {

In theory this needs a barrier to avoid the race with do_exit(). And I'd
suggest to use signal->live, I think signal->nr_threads should die...
Something like

	bool probably_has_other_mm_users(tsk)
	{
		return	atomic_read_acquire(&tsk->mm->mm_users) >
			atomic_read(&tsk->signal->live);
	}

The barrier implied by _acquire ensures that if we race with the exiting
task and see the result of exit_mm()->mmput(mm), then we must also see
the result of atomic_dec_and_test(signal->live).

Either way, if we want to fix the race with clone(CLONE_VM) we need other
changes.

Oleg.