The patch titled Subject: mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task more than twice has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task more than twice oom_reaper relies on the mmap_sem for read to do its job. Many places which might block readers have been converted to use down_write_killable and that has reduced chances of the contention a lot. Some paths where the mmap_sem is held for write can take other locks and they might either be not prepared to fail due to fatal signal pending or too impractical to be changed. This patch introduces MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE flag which gets set after the first attempt to reap a task's mm fails. If the flag is present after the failure then we set MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide this mm from the oom killer completely so it can go and chose another victim. As a result a risk of OOM deadlock when the oom victim would be blocked indefinetly and so the oom killer cannot make any progress should be mitigated considerably while we still try really hard to perform all reclaim attempts and stay predictable in the behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-10-git-send-email-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + mm/oom_kill.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm #define MMF_HAS_UPROBES 19 /* has uprobes */ #define MMF_RECALC_UPROBES 20 /* MMF_HAS_UPROBES can be wrong */ #define MMF_OOM_REAPED 21 /* mm has been already reaped */ +#define MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE 22 /* mm couldn't be reaped */ #define MMF_INIT_MASK (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -556,8 +556,27 @@ static void oom_reap_task(struct task_st schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10); if (attempts > MAX_OOM_REAP_RETRIES) { + struct task_struct *p; + pr_info("oom_reaper: unable to reap pid:%d (%s)\n", task_pid_nr(tsk), tsk->comm); + + /* + * If we've already tried to reap this task in the past and + * failed it probably doesn't make much sense to try yet again + * so hide the mm from the oom killer so that it can move on + * to another task with a different mm struct. + */ + p = find_lock_task_mm(tsk); + if (p) { + if (test_and_set_bit(MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE, &p->mm->flags)) { + pr_info("oom_reaper: giving up pid:%d (%s)\n", + task_pid_nr(tsk), tsk->comm); + set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags); + } + task_unlock(p); + } + debug_show_all_locks(); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are tree-wide-get-rid-of-__gfp_repeat-for-order-0-allocations-part-i.patch x86-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch x86-efi-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm64-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch nios2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch parisc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch score-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch powerpc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sparc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch s390-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sh-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch tile-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch unicore32-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch jbd2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch slab-make-gfp_slab_bug_mask-information-more-human-readable.patch slab-do-not-panic-on-invalid-gfp_mask.patch mm-oom_reaper-make-sure-that-mmput_async-is-called-only-when-memory-was-reaped.patch mm-memcg-use-consistent-gfp-flags-during-readahead.patch mm-memcg-use-consistent-gfp-flags-during-readahead-fix.patch proc-oom-drop-bogus-task_lock-and-mm-check.patch proc-oom-drop-bogus-sighand-lock.patch proc-oom_adj-extract-oom_score_adj-setting-into-a-helper.patch mm-oom_adj-make-sure-processes-sharing-mm-have-same-view-of-oom_score_adj.patch mm-oom-skip-vforked-tasks-from-being-selected.patch mm-oom-kill-all-tasks-sharing-the-mm.patch mm-oom-fortify-task_will_free_mem.patch mm-oom-task_will_free_mem-should-skip-oom_reaped-tasks.patch mm-oom_reaper-do-not-attempt-to-reap-a-task-more-than-twice.patch mm-oom-hide-mm-which-is-shared-with-kthread-or-global-init.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html