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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2016-10-08 02:58:51 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 04:46:27 +0300
commit26db62f179d112d345031e14926a4cda9cd40d6e (patch)
tree12d1fca0155dd6f1b3e16f660a74a0b55432b204 /mm/oom_kill.c
parent8496afaba93ece80a83cbd096f0675a1020ddfc4 (diff)
downloadlinux-26db62f179d112d345031e14926a4cda9cd40d6e.tar.xz
oom: keep mm of the killed task available
oom_reap_task has to call exit_oom_victim in order to make sure that the oom vicim will not block the oom killer for ever. This is, however, opening new problems (e.g oom_killer_disable exclusion - see commit 74070542099c ("oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race")). exit_oom_victim should be only called from the victim's context ideally. One way to achieve this would be to rely on per mm_struct flags. We already have MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide a task from the oom killer since "mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init". The problem is that the exit path: do_exit exit_mm tsk->mm = NULL; mmput __mmput exit_oom_victim doesn't guarantee that exit_oom_victim will get called in a bounded amount of time. At least exit_aio depends on IO which might get blocked due to lack of memory and who knows what else is lurking there. This patch takes a different approach. We remember tsk->mm into the signal_struct and bind it to the signal struct life time for all oom victims. __oom_reap_task_mm as well as oom_scan_process_thread do not have to rely on find_lock_task_mm anymore and they will have a reliable reference to the mm struct. As a result all the oom specific communication inside the OOM killer can be done via tsk->signal->oom_mm. Increasing the signal_struct for something as unlikely as the oom killer is far from ideal but this approach will make the code much more reasonable and long term we even might want to move task->mm into the signal_struct anyway. In the next step we might want to make the oom killer exclusion and access to memory reserves completely independent which would be also nice. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-4-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c51
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 45097f5a8f30..f16ec0840a0e 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -300,14 +300,7 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
* any memory is quite low.
*/
if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims)) {
- struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(task);
- bool reaped = false;
-
- if (p) {
- reaped = test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags);
- task_unlock(p);
- }
- if (reaped)
+ if (test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &task->signal->oom_mm->flags))
goto next;
goto abort;
}
@@ -537,11 +530,6 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
- * This task can be safely ignored because we cannot do much more
- * to release its memory.
- */
- set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &mm->flags);
- /*
* Drop our reference but make sure the mmput slow path is called from a
* different context because we shouldn't risk we get stuck there and
* put the oom_reaper out of the way.
@@ -556,20 +544,7 @@ unlock_oom:
static void oom_reap_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
int attempts = 0;
- struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
- struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(tsk);
-
- /*
- * Make sure we find the associated mm_struct even when the particular
- * thread has already terminated and cleared its mm.
- * We might have race with exit path so consider our work done if there
- * is no mm.
- */
- if (!p)
- goto done;
- mm = p->mm;
- atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
- task_unlock(p);
+ struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->signal->oom_mm;
/* Retry the down_read_trylock(mmap_sem) a few times */
while (attempts++ < MAX_OOM_REAP_RETRIES && !__oom_reap_task_mm(tsk, mm))
@@ -578,8 +553,6 @@ static void oom_reap_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
if (attempts <= MAX_OOM_REAP_RETRIES)
goto done;
- /* Ignore this mm because somebody can't call up_write(mmap_sem). */
- set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &mm->flags);
pr_info("oom_reaper: unable to reap pid:%d (%s)\n",
task_pid_nr(tsk), tsk->comm);
@@ -595,11 +568,14 @@ done:
tsk->oom_reaper_list = NULL;
exit_oom_victim(tsk);
+ /*
+ * Hide this mm from OOM killer because it has been either reaped or
+ * somebody can't call up_write(mmap_sem).
+ */
+ set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &mm->flags);
+
/* Drop a reference taken by wake_oom_reaper */
put_task_struct(tsk);
- /* Drop a reference taken above. */
- if (mm)
- mmdrop(mm);
}
static int oom_reaper(void *unused)
@@ -665,14 +641,25 @@ static inline void wake_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
*
* Has to be called with oom_lock held and never after
* oom has been disabled already.
+ *
+ * tsk->mm has to be non NULL and caller has to guarantee it is stable (either
+ * under task_lock or operate on the current).
*/
static void mark_oom_victim(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
+
WARN_ON(oom_killer_disabled);
/* OOM killer might race with memcg OOM */
if (test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE))
return;
+
atomic_inc(&tsk->signal->oom_victims);
+
+ /* oom_mm is bound to the signal struct life time. */
+ if (!cmpxchg(&tsk->signal->oom_mm, NULL, mm))
+ atomic_inc(&tsk->signal->oom_mm->mm_count);
+
/*
* Make sure that the task is woken up from uninterruptible sleep
* if it is frozen because OOM killer wouldn't be able to free