On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Oleg Nesterov <
oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+
+static void oom_unmap_func(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = xchg(&oom_unmap_mm, NULL);
+
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&mm->mm_users))
+ return;
+
+ // If this is not safe we can do use_mm() + unuse_mm()
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
I don't think this is safe.
What makes you sure that we might not deadlock on the mmap_sem here?
For all we know, the process that is going out of memory is in the
middle of a mmap(), and already holds the mmap_sem for writing. No?
So at the very least that needs to be a trylock, I think. And I'm not
sure zap_page_range() is ok with the mmap_sem only held for reading.
Normally our rule is that you can *populate* the page tables
concurrently, but you can't tear the down.