Re: [PATCH 13/18] exec: make exec path waiting for mmap_sem killable

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> setup_arg_pages requires mmap_sem for write. If the waiting task
> gets killed by the oom killer it would block oom_reaper from
> asynchronous address space reclaim and reduce the chances of timely
> OOM resolving. Wait for the lock in the killable mode and return with
> EINTR if the task got killed while waiting. All the callers are already
> handling error path and the fatal signal doesn't need any additional
> treatment.
>
> The same applies to __bprm_mm_init.
>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>