[PATCH 06/18] mm: make vm_brk killable

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 08:59:41 EST


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Now that all the callers handle vm_brk failure we can change it
wait for mmap_sem killable to help oom_reaper to not get blocked
just because vm_brk gets blocked behind mmap_sem readers.

Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
mm/mmap.c | 9 +++------
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 1085e025852a..7b52750caf9e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2003,7 +2003,7 @@ static inline void mm_populate(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) {}
#endif

/* These take the mm semaphore themselves */
-extern unsigned long vm_brk(unsigned long, unsigned long);
+extern unsigned long __must_check vm_brk(unsigned long, unsigned long);
extern int vm_munmap(unsigned long, size_t);
extern unsigned long __must_check vm_mmap(struct file *, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long,
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 032605bda665..62cb02310494 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2712,12 +2712,9 @@ unsigned long vm_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
unsigned long ret;
bool populate;

- /*
- * XXX not all users are chcecking the return value, convert
- * to down_write_killable after they are able to cope with
- * error
- */
- down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
+ return -EINTR;
+
ret = do_brk(addr, len);
populate = ((mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED) != 0);
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
--
2.8.0.rc3