Hi Andrew, Rafael,
this has been originally discussed here [1] and previously posted here [2].
I have updated patches according to feedback from Oleg.
The first and third patch are regression fixes and they are a stable
material IMO. The second and fourth patch are simple cleanups.
The 1st patch is fixing a regression introduced in 3.3 since when OOM
killer is not able to kill any frozen task and live lock as a result.
The fix gets us back to the 3.2. As it turned out during the discussion [3]
this was still not 100% sufficient and that's why we need the 3rd patch.
I was thinking about the proper 1st vs. 3rd patch ordering because
the 1st patch basically opens a race window considerably reduced by the
later patch. This path is hard to do completely race free without a complete
synchronization of OOM path (including the allocator) and freezer which is not
worth the trouble.
Original patch from Cong Wang has covered this by checking
cgroup_freezing(current) in __refrigarator path [4]. But this approach
still suffers from OOM vs. PM freezer interaction (OOM killer would
still live lock waiting for a PM frozen task this time).
So I think the most straight forward way is to address only OOM vs.
frozen task interaction in the first patch, mark it for stable 3.3+ and
leave the race to a separate follow up patch which is applicable to
stable 3.2+ (before a3201227f803 made it inefficient).
Switching 1st and 3rd patches would make some sense as well but then
it might end up even more confusing because we would be fixing a
non-existent issue in upstream first...
Cong Wang (2):
freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer
freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task()
Michal Hocko (2):
OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend
PM: convert do_each_thread to for_each_process_thread
And diffstat says:
include/linux/oom.h | 3 +++
kernel/freezer.c | 9 +++------
kernel/power/process.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
mm/oom_kill.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++++
5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140986986423092
[2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141277728508500&w=2
[3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141074263721166
[4] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140986986423092
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