From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> PR_SET_THP_DISABLE requires mmap_sem for write. If the waiting task gets killed by the oom killer it would block oom_reaper from asynchronous address space reclaim and reduce the chances of timely OOM resolving. Wait for the lock in the killable mode and return with EINTR if the task got killed while waiting. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sys.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index cf8ba545c7d3..89d5be418157 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -2246,7 +2246,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3, case PR_SET_THP_DISABLE: if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5) return -EINVAL; - down_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem); + if (down_write_killable(&me->mm->mmap_sem)) + return -EINTR; if (arg2) me->mm->def_flags |= VM_NOHUGEPAGE; else -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>