On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:32:44PM -0700, Shawn Landden wrote: > It is common for services to be stateless around their main event loop. > If a process passes the EPOLL_KILLME flag to epoll_wait5() then it > signals to the kernel that epoll_wait5() may not complete, and the kernel > may send SIGKILL if resources get tight. > > See my systemd patch: https://github.com/shawnl/systemd/tree/killme > > Android uses this memory model for all programs, and having it in the > kernel will enable integration with the page cache (not in this > series). I'm not taking a position on whether this is a good feature to have, but your implementation could do with some improvement. > +static LIST_HEAD(deathrow_q); > +static long deathrow_len __read_mostly; In what sense is this __read_mostly when it's modified by every call that has EPOLL_KILLME set? Also, why do you think this is a useful statistic to gather in the kernel and expose to userspace? > +/* TODO: Can this lock be removed by using atomic instructions to update > + * queue? > + */ > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(deathrow_mutex); This doesn't need to be a mutex; you don't do anything that sleeps while holding it. It should be a spinlock instead (but see below). > @@ -380,6 +380,9 @@ struct sched_entity { > struct list_head group_node; > unsigned int on_rq; > > + unsigned on_deathrow:1; > + struct list_head deathrow; > + > u64 exec_start; > u64 sum_exec_runtime; > u64 vruntime; You're adding an extra 16 bytes to each task to implement this feature. I don't like that, and I think you can avoid it. Turn 'deathrow' into a wait_queue_head_t. Declare the wait_queue_entry on the stack. While you're at it, I don't think 'deathrow' is an epoll concept. I think it's an OOM killer concept which happens to be only accessible through epoll today (but we could consider allowing other system calls to place tasks on it in the future). So the central place for all this is in oom_kill.c and epoll only calls into it. Maybe we have 'deathrow_enroll()' and 'deathrow_remove()' APIs in oom_killer. And I don't like the name 'deathrow'. How about oom_target?
