(add Roland)
On 06/02, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > Otoh, if we make do_coredump() interruptible (and we should do this
> > in any case), then perhaps the TIF_MEMDIE+PF_COREDUMP is not really
> > needed? Afaics we always send SIGKILL along with TIF_MEMDIE.
>
> How is to make per-process oom flag + interruptible coredump?
>
> this per-process oom flag can be used vmscan shortcut exiting too.
> (IOW, It can help DavidR mmap_sem issue)
Firstly, this solution is not complete. We should make it really
interruptible (from user-space too), but we need more changes for
this (in particular we need to distinguish group-exit/exec cases
from the explicit SIGKILL case). Let's not discuss this here, this
is the different story.
But. I agree very much that it makes sense to add the quick fix
right now. Even if this fix will be superseded by the "proper"
fixes later.
> --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> @@ -2038,6 +2038,11 @@ static int elf_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm)
> page_cache_release(page);
> } else
> stop = !dump_seek(cprm->file, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + /* Now, The process received OOM. Exit soon! */
> + if (current->signal->oom_victim)
> + stop = 1;
Agreed, most problems with memory allocations should come from this loop.
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ struct signal_struct {
> int notify_count;
> struct task_struct *group_exit_task;
>
> + /* true mean the process is OOM-killer victim. */
> + bool oom_victim;
Well, the new word in signal_struct is not nice. It is better to
set SIGNAL_OOM_XXX in ->signal->flags (this needs ->siglock).
But. I don't think that signal_struct is the right place for the marker.
The thread which actually dumps the core doesn't necessarily belong
to the same thread group, but it can share ->mm with the selected
oom victim.
IOW, we should mark ->mm instead (perhaps mm->flags) or mm->core_state.
This in turn means we need find_lock_task_mm().
What do you think?
Oleg.
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