On Sat 28-11-15 13:39:11, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > for write while write but the probability is reduced considerably wrt. > > Is this "while write" garbage? Fixed > > Users of mmap_sem which need it for write should be carefully reviewed > > to use _killable waiting as much as possible and reduce allocations > > requests done with the lock held to absolute minimum to reduce the risk > > even further. > > It will be nice if we can have down_write_killable()/down_read_killable(). Yes that is an idea. > > The API between oom killer and oom reaper is quite trivial. wake_oom_reaper > > updates mm_to_reap with cmpxchg to guarantee only NUll->mm transition > > NULL->mm fixed > > and oom_reaper clear this atomically once it is done with the work. > > Can't oom_reaper() become as compact as below? Good idea! I think we still need {READ,WRITE}_ONCE to prevent from any potential mis optimizations, though. Here is what I did: diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 333953bf4968..b50ce41194b3 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -477,21 +477,11 @@ static void oom_reap_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm) static int oom_reaper(void *unused) { - DEFINE_WAIT(wait); - while (true) { struct mm_struct *mm; - - prepare_to_wait(&oom_reaper_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - mm = READ_ONCE(mm_to_reap); - if (!mm) { - freezable_schedule(); - finish_wait(&oom_reaper_wait, &wait); - } else { - finish_wait(&oom_reaper_wait, &wait); - oom_reap_vmas(mm); - WRITE_ONCE(mm_to_reap, NULL); - } + wait_event_freezable(oom_reaper_wait, (mm = READ_ONCE(mm_to_reap))); + oom_reap_vmas(mm); + WRITE_ONCE(mm_to_reap, NULL); } return 0; -- 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>