The patch titled oom: avoid race for oom killed tasks detaching mm prior to exit has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oom: avoid race for oom killed tasks detaching mm prior to exit From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Tasks detach its ->mm prior to exiting so it's possible that in progress oom kills or already exiting tasks may be missed during the oom killer's tasklist scan. When an eligible task is found with either TIF_MEMDIE or PF_EXITING set, the oom killer is supposed to be a no-op to avoid needlessly killing additional tasks. This closes the race between a task detaching its ->mm and being removed from the tasklist. Out of memory conditions as the result of memory controllers will automatically filter tasks that have detached their ->mm (since task_in_mem_cgroup() will return 0). This is acceptable, however, since memcg constrained ooms aren't the result of a lack of memory resources but rather a limit imposed by userspace that requires a task be killed regardless. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -305,12 +305,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr for_each_process(p) { unsigned int points; - /* - * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released - * their mm. - */ - if (!p->mm) - continue; /* skip the init task */ if (is_global_init(p)) continue; @@ -351,6 +345,12 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr *ppoints = 1000; } + /* + * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released + * their mm. + */ + if (!p->mm) + continue; if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) continue; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-code.patch oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit.patch oom-select_bad_process-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch oom-select_bad_process-pf_exiting-check-should-take-mm-into-account.patch oom-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives.patch oom-oom_forkbomb_penalty-move-thread_group_cputime-out-of-task_lock.patch oom-hold-tasklist_lock-when-dumping-tasks.patch oom-give-current-access-to-memory-reserves-if-it-has-been-killed.patch oom-avoid-sending-exiting-tasks-a-sigkill.patch oom-clean-up-oom_kill_task.patch oom-clean-up-oom_badness.patch oom-select_bad_process-never-choose-tasks-with-badness-==-0.patch oom-avoid-divide-by-zero.patch mempolicy-remove-case-mpol_interleave-from-policy_zonelist.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-check.patch mempolicy-dont-call-mpol_set_nodemask-when-no_context.patch mempolicy-lose-unnecessary-loop-variable-in-mpol_parse_str.patch mempolicy-rename-policy_types-and-cleanup-initialization.patch mempolicy-factor-mpol_shared_policy_init-return-paths.patch mempolicy-document-cpuset-interaction-with-tmpfs-mpol-mount-option.patch mempolicy-restructure-rebinding-mempolicy-functions.patch cpusetmm-fix-no-node-to-alloc-memory-when-changing-cpusets-mems.patch cpusetmm-fix-no-node-to-alloc-memory-when-changing-cpusets-mems-fix2.patch mm-default-to-node-zonelist-ordering-when-nodes-have-only-lowmem.patch mmcompaction-memory-compaction-core-do-not-schedule-work-on-other-cpus-for-compaction.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter-update.patch memcg-oom-notifier.patch memcg-oom-notifier-update.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status-update.patch memcg-make-oom-killer-a-no-op-when-no-killable-task-can-be-found.patch numa-add-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation.patch numa-add-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation-fix1.patch numa-add-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation-fix2.patch numa-x86_64-use-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation.patch numa-x86_64-use-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation-fix1.patch numa-x86_64-use-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation-fix2.patch numa-ia64-use-generic-percpu-var-numa_node_id-implementation.patch numa-introduce-numa_mem_id-effective-local-memory-node-id.patch numa-introduce-numa_mem_id-effective-local-memory-node-id-fix2.patch numa-introduce-numa_mem_id-effective-local-memory-node-id-fix3.patch numa-ia64-support-numa_mem_id-for-memoryless-nodes.patch numa-slab-use-numa_mem_id-for-slab-local-memory-node.patch numa-in-kernel-profiling-use-cpu_to_mem-for-per-cpu-allocations.patch numa-update-documentation-vm-numa-add-memoryless-node-info.patch numa-update-documentation-vm-numa-add-memoryless-node-info-fix1.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