Re: [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at should_reclaim_retry().

[Tetsuo Handa]

On 2018/08/03 15:16, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 03-08-18 07:05:54, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> On 2018/07/31 14:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Tue 31-07-18 06:01:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>>> On 2018/07/31 4:10, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> Since should_reclaim_retry() should be a natural reschedule point,
>>>>> let's do the short sleep for PF_WQ_WORKER threads unconditionally in
>>>>> order to guarantee that other pending work items are started. This will
>>>>> workaround this problem and it is less fragile than hunting down when
>>>>> the sleep is missed. E.g. we used to have a sleeping point in the oom
>>>>> path but this has been removed recently because it caused other issues.
>>>>> Having a single sleeping point is more robust.
>>>>
>>>> linux.git has not removed the sleeping point in the OOM path yet. Since removing the
>>>> sleeping point in the OOM path can mitigate CVE-2016-10723, please do so immediately.
>>>
>>> is this an {Acked,Reviewed,Tested}-by?
>>>
>>> I will send the patch to Andrew if the patch is ok. 
>>>
>>>> (And that change will conflict with Roman's cgroup aware OOM killer patchset. But it
>>>> should be easy to rebase.)
>>>
>>> That is still a WIP so I would lose sleep over it.
>>>
>>
>> Now that Roman's cgroup aware OOM killer patchset will be dropped from linux-next.git ,
>> linux-next.git will get the sleeping point removed. Please send this patch to linux-next.git .
> 
> I still haven't heard any explicit confirmation that the patch works for
> your workload. Should I beg for it? Or you simply do not want to have
> your stamp on the patch? If yes, I can live with that but this playing
> hide and catch is not really a lot of fun.
> 

I noticed that the patch has not been sent to linux-next.git yet.
Please send to linux-next.git without my stamp on the patch.

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[  121.915873]     pending: vmpressure_work_fn, vmw_fb_dirty_flush [vmwgfx], e1000_watchdog [e1000], vmstat_shepherd, free_work, mmdrop_async_fn, mmdrop_async_fn, check_corruption
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[  121.933983]     pending: fb_flashcursor, gc_worker [nf_conntrack], neigh_periodic_work, neigh_periodic_work
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[  121.948975]     pending: drain_local_pages_wq BAR(1830), vmstat_update
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