[PATCH v2] mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()

[Kirill Tkhai]

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In case of memory deficit and low percpu memory pages,
pcpu_balance_workfn() takes pcpu_alloc_mutex for a long
time (as it makes memory allocations itself and waits
for memory reclaim). If tasks doing pcpu_alloc() are
choosen by OOM killer, they can't exit, because they
are waiting for the mutex.

The patch makes pcpu_alloc() to care about killing signal
and use mutex_lock_killable(), when it's allowed by GFP
flags. This guarantees, a task does not miss SIGKILL
from OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Added explaining comment
 mm/percpu.c |   13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 50e7fdf84055..605e3228baa6 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1369,8 +1369,17 @@ static void __percpu *pcpu_alloc(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	if (!is_atomic)
-		mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
+	if (!is_atomic) {
+		/*
+		 * pcpu_balance_workfn() allocates memory under this mutex,
+		 * and it may wait for memory reclaim. Allow current task
+		 * to become OOM victim, in case of memory pressure.
+		 */
+		if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL)
+			mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
+		else if (mutex_lock_killable(&pcpu_alloc_mutex))
+			return NULL;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);