On Fri 10-06-16 23:23:36, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > (1) freeze_processes() starts freezing user space threads. > (2) Somebody (maybe a kenrel thread) calls out_of_memory(). > (3) The OOM killer calls mark_oom_victim() on a user space thread > P1 which is already in __refrigerator(). > (4) oom_killer_disable() sets oom_killer_disabled = true. > (5) P1 leaves __refrigerator() and enters do_exit(). > (6) The OOM reaper calls exit_oom_victim(P1) before P1 can call > exit_oom_victim(P1). > (7) oom_killer_disable() returns while P1 is not yet frozen > again (i.e. not yet marked as PF_FROZEN). > (8) P1 perform IO/interfere with the freezer. You are right. I missed that kernel threads are still alive when writing e26796066fdf929c ("oom: make oom_reaper freezable"). I am trying to remember why we are disabling oom killer before kernel threads are frozen but not really sure about that right away. I guess it has something to do with freeze_kernel_threads being called from different contexts as well so freeze_processes was just more convinient and was OK for correctness at the time. > try_to_freeze_tasks(false) from freeze_kernel_threads() will freeze > P1 again, but it seems to me that freeze_kernel_threads() is not > always called when freeze_processes() suceeded. > > Therefore, we need to do like > > - exit_oom_victim(tsk); > + mutex_lock(&oom_lock); > + if (!oom_killer_disabled) > + exit_oom_victim(tsk); > + mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); > > in oom_reap_task(), don't we? I do not like this very much. I would rather make sure that all freezable kernel threads are frozen when disabling the oom killer. [...] > But we might be able to do like below patch rather than above patch. > If below approach is OK, "[PATCH 10/10] mm, oom: hide mm which is shared > with kthread or global init" will be able to call exit_oom_victim() when > can_oom_reap became false. I believe this is not really needed. I will follow up on the 10/10 later. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>