From fb794bcbb4e5552242f9a4c5e1ffe4c6da29a968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:07:58 -0700 Subject: mm, oom: remove unnecessary exit_state check The oom killer scans each process and determines whether it is eligible for oom kill or whether the oom killer should abort because of concurrent memory freeing. It will abort when an eligible process is found to have TIF_MEMDIE set, meaning it has already been oom killed and we're waiting for it to exit. Processes with task->mm == NULL should not be considered because they are either kthreads or have already detached their memory and killing them would not lead to memory freeing. That memory is only freed after exit_mm() has returned, however, and not when task->mm is first set to NULL. Clear TIF_MEMDIE after exit_mm()'s mmput() so that an oom killed process is no longer considered for oom kill, but only until exit_mm() has returned. This was fragile in the past because it relied on exit_notify() to be reached before no longer considering TIF_MEMDIE processes. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index e5c4668f1799..88c6b3e42583 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk) task_unlock(tsk); mm_update_next_owner(mm); mmput(mm); + clear_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3