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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] mm, oom: hand over MMF_OOM_SKIP to exit path if it is guranteed to finish
On Tue 30-10-18 18:47:43, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2018/10/30 15:31, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 30-10-18 13:45:22, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >> Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> @@ -3156,6 +3166,13 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
> >>> vma = remove_vma(vma);
> >>> }
> >>> vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
> >>> +
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * Now that the full address space is torn down, make sure the
> >>> + * OOM killer skips over this task
> >>> + */
> >>> + if (oom)
> >>> + set_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP, &mm->flags);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> /* Insert vm structure into process list sorted by address
> >>
> >> I don't like setting MMF_OOF_SKIP after remove_vma() loop. 50 users might
> >> call vma->vm_ops->close() from remove_vma(). Some of them are doing fs
> >> writeback, some of them might be doing GFP_KERNEL allocation from
> >> vma->vm_ops->open() with a lock also held by vma->vm_ops->close().
> >>
> >> I don't think that waiting for completion of remove_vma() loop is safe.
> >
> > What do you mean by 'safe' here?
> >
>
> safe = "Does not cause OOM lockup."
>
> remove_vma() is allowed to sleep, and some users might depend on memory
> allocation when the OOM killer is waiting for remove_vma() to complete.

But MMF_OOF_SKIP is set after we are done with remove_vma. In fact it is
the very last thing in exit_mmap. So I do not follow what you mean.

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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