[PATCH 2/6] mm,oom: don't abort on exiting processes when selecting a victim.

[Tetsuo Handa]

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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:30:59 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] mm,oom: don't abort on exiting processes when selecting a victim.

Currently, oom_scan_process_thread() returns OOM_SCAN_ABORT when there
is a thread which is exiting. But it is possible that that thread is
blocked at down_read(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm() called from do_exit()
whereas one of threads sharing that memory is doing a GFP_KERNEL
allocation between down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) and up_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
(e.g. mmap()). Under such situation, the OOM killer does not choose a
victim, which results in silent OOM livelock problem.

This patch changes oom_scan_process_thread() not to return OOM_SCAN_ABORT
when there is a thread which is exiting.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 27949ef..a3868fd 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -311,9 +311,6 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct oom_control *oc,
 	if (oom_task_origin(task))
 		return OOM_SCAN_SELECT;
 
-	if (task_will_free_mem(task) && !is_sysrq_oom(oc))
-		return OOM_SCAN_ABORT;
-
 	return OOM_SCAN_OK;
 }
 
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