On Wed 15-06-16 16:37:01, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Michal, > > I am going to ack the whole series, but send some nits/questions, > > On 06/09, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > @@ -283,10 +283,22 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct oom_control *oc, > > > > /* > > * This task already has access to memory reserves and is being killed. > > - * Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves. > > + * Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves unless > > + * the task has MMF_OOM_REAPED because chances that it would release > > + * any memory is quite low. > > */ > > - if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims)) > > - return OOM_SCAN_ABORT; > > + if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims)) { > > + struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(task); > > + enum oom_scan_t ret = OOM_SCAN_ABORT; > > + > > + if (p) { > > + if (test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags)) > > + ret = OOM_SCAN_CONTINUE; > > + task_unlock(p); > > OK, but perhaps it would be beter to change oom_badness() to return zero if > MMF_OOM_REAPED is set? We already do that: if (adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN || test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags) || in_vfork(p)) { task_unlock(p); return 0; } It is kind of subtle that we have to check it 2 times but we would have to rework this code much more because oom_badness only can tell to ignore the task but not to abort scanning altogether currently. If we should change this I would suggest a separate patch. -- 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>