Re: [PATCH 4/4] oom: don't ignore rss in nascent mm

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 13:48:57 EST


On 09/16, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> ChangeLog
> o since v1
> - Always use thread group leader's ->in_exec_mm.

Confused ;)

> +static unsigned long oom_rss_swap_usage(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *t = p;
> + struct task_struct *leader = p->group_leader;
> + unsigned long points = 0;
> +
> + do {
> + task_lock(t);
> + if (t->mm) {
> + points += get_mm_rss(t->mm);
> + points += get_mm_counter(t->mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
> + task_unlock(t);
> + break;
> + }
> + task_unlock(t);
> + } while_each_thread(p, t);
> +
> + /*
> + * If the process is in execve() processing, we have to concern
> + * about both old and new mm.
> + */
> + task_lock(leader);
> + if (leader->in_exec_mm) {
> + points += get_mm_rss(leader->in_exec_mm);
> + points += get_mm_counter(leader->in_exec_mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
> + }
> + task_unlock(leader);
> +
> + return points;
> +}

This patch relies on fact that we can't race with de_thread() (and btw
the change in de_thread() looks bogus). Then why ->in_exec_mm lives in
task_struct ?

To me, this looks a bit strange. I think we should either do not use
->group_leader to hold ->in_exec_mm like your previous patch did, or
move ->in_exec_mm into signal_struct. The previous 3/4 ensures that
only one thread can set ->in_exec_mm.

And I don't think oom_rss_swap_usage() should replace find_lock_task_mm()
in oom_badness(), I mean something like this:

static unsigned long oom_rss_swap_usage(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return get_mm_rss(mm) + get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
}

unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, ...)
{
int points = 0;

if (unlikely(p->signal->in_exec_mm)) {
task_lock(p->group_leader);
if (p->signal->in_exec_mm)
points = oom_rss_swap_usage(p->signal->in_exec_mm);
task_unlock(p->group_leader);
}

p = find_lock_task_mm(p);
if (!p)
return points;

...
}

but this is the matter of taste.

What do you think?

Oleg.

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