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

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 17-02-16 22:07:31, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 17-02-16 19:30:41, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > >From 22bd036766e70f0df38c38f3ecc226e857d20faf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Again, such a thread/task will have fatal_signal_pending and so have
> > access to memory reserves. So the text is slightly misleading imho.
> > Sure if the memory reserves are depleted then we will not move on but
> > then it is not clear whether the current patch helps either.
> 
> I don't think so.
> Please see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201602151958.HCJ48972.FFOFOLMHSQVJtO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .

I have missed this one. Reading...

Hmm, so you are not referring to OOM killed task but naturally exiting
thread which is racing with the OOM killer. I guess you have a point
there! Could you update the changelog with the above example and repost
please?

Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs