On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:53 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu 11-04-19 08:33:13, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 06:43:53PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > > > Add new SS_EXPEDITE flag to be used when sending SIGKILL via > > > pidfd_send_signal() syscall to allow expedited memory reclaim of the > > > victim process. The usage of this flag is currently limited to SIGKILL > > > signal and only to privileged users. > > > > What is the downside of doing expedited memory reclaim? ie why not do it > > every time a process is going to die? > > Well, you are tearing down an address space which might be still in use > because the task not fully dead yeat. So there are two downsides AFAICS. > Core dumping which will not see the reaped memory so the resulting Test for SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP before doing any of this then. If you try to start a core dump after reaping begins, too bad: you could have raced with process death anyway. > coredump might be incomplete. And unexpected #PF/gup on the reaped > memory will result in SIGBUS. It's a dying process. Why even bother returning from the fault handler? Just treat that situation as a thread exit. There's no need to make this observable to userspace at all.
