Michal, I am already sleeping, I'll try to reply to other parts of your email (and other emails) tomorrow, just some notes about the patch you propose. And cough sorry for noise... I personally hate-hate-hate every new "oom" member you and Tetsuo add into task/signal_struct ;) But not in this case, because I _think_ we need signal_struct->mm anyway in the long term. So at first glance this patch makes sense, but unless I missed something (the patch doesn't apply I can be easily wrong), On 06/28, Michal Hocko wrote: > > @@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ static inline void free_signal_struct(struct signal_struct *sig) > { > taskstats_tgid_free(sig); > sched_autogroup_exit(sig); > + if (sig->oom_mm) > + mmdrop(sig->oom_mm); > kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig); > } OK, iiuc this is not that bad because only oom-killer can set it, > +void mark_oom_victim(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) > { > WARN_ON(oom_killer_disabled); > /* OOM killer might race with memcg OOM */ > if (test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE)) > return; > + > atomic_inc(&tsk->signal->oom_victims); > + > + /* oom_mm is bound to the signal struct life time */ > + if (!tsk->signal->oom_mm) { > + atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); > + tsk->signal->oom_mm = mm; Looks racy, but it is not because we rely on oom_lock? Perhaps a comment makes sense. > @@ -828,7 +816,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p, > struct task_struct *victim = p; > struct task_struct *child; > struct task_struct *t; > - struct mm_struct *mm; > + struct mm_struct *mm = READ_ONCE(p->mm); > unsigned int victim_points = 0; > static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL, > DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST); > @@ -838,8 +826,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p, > * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill > * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly > */ > - if (task_will_free_mem(p)) { > - mark_oom_victim(p); > + if (mm && task_will_free_mem(p)) { > + mark_oom_victim(p, mm); And this looks really racy at first glance. Suppose that this memory hog execs (this changes its ->mm) and then exits so that task_will_free_mem() == T, in this case "mm" has nothing to do with tsk->mm and it can be already freed. Oleg. -- 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>