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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-12-12 16:56:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-13 12:42:49 -0800
commitd003f371b27016354c392464819530d47a915765 (patch)
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oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soon
oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump. A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread can need more memory. Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account, we add the new trivial helper for that. Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state, so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set. fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it. And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c6ac50e7d1c2..998fb1756d43 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
* select it. The goal is to allow it to allocate so that it may
* quickly exit and free its memory.
*/
- if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || current->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current)) {
set_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE);
return;
}