The patch titled memcg: use find_lock_task_mm() in memory cgroups oom has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: use find_lock_task_mm() in memory cgroups oom From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> When the OOM killer scans task, it check a task is under memcg or not when it's called via memcg's context. But, as Oleg pointed out, a thread group leader may have NULL ->mm and task_in_mem_cgroup() may do wrong decision. We have to use find_lock_task_mm() in memcg as generic OOM-Killer does. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/oom.h | 2 ++ mm/memcontrol.c | 10 +++++++--- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/oom.h~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom include/linux/oom.h --- a/include/linux/oom.h~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom +++ a/include/linux/oom.h @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ static inline void oom_killer_enable(voi oom_killer_disabled = false; } +extern struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p); + /* sysctls */ extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ #include <linux/mm_inline.h> #include <linux/page_cgroup.h> #include <linux/cpu.h> +#include <linux/oom.h> #include "internal.h" #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -838,10 +839,13 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struc { int ret; struct mem_cgroup *curr = NULL; + struct task_struct *p; - task_lock(task); - curr = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(task->mm); - task_unlock(task); + p = find_lock_task_mm(task); + if (!p) + return 0; + curr = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(p->mm); + task_unlock(p); if (!curr) return 0; /* diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static bool has_intersects_mems_allowed( * pointer. Return p, or any of its subthreads with a valid ->mm, with * task_lock() held. */ -static struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p) +struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p) { struct task_struct *t = p; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch memcg-fix-wake-up-in-oom-wait-queue.patch percpu-online-cpu-before-memory-failed-in-pcpu_alloc_pages.patch vfs-introduce-fmode_neg_offset-for-allowing-negative-f_pos.patch mm-rename-anon_vma_lock-to-vma_lock_anon_vma.patch mm-change-direct-call-of-spin_lockanon_vma-lock-to-inline-function.patch mm-track-the-root-oldest-anon_vma.patch mm-always-lock-the-root-oldest-anon_vma.patch mm-extend-ksm-refcounts-to-the-anon_vma-root.patch mm-extend-ksm-refcounts-to-the-anon_vma-root-fix.patch oom-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch oom-give-current-access-to-memory-reserves-if-it-has-been-killed.patch oom-avoid-sending-exiting-tasks-a-sigkill.patch oom-filter-tasks-not-sharing-the-same-cpuset.patch oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent.patch oom-select-task-from-tasklist-for-mempolicy-ooms.patch oom-enable-oom-tasklist-dump-by-default.patch oom-avoid-oom-killer-for-lowmem-allocations.patch oom-extract-panic-helper-function.patch oom-remove-special-handling-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh.patch oom-remove-unnecessary-code-and-cleanup.patch mm-rename-try_set_zone_oom-to-try_set_zonelist_oom.patch oom-remove-constraint-argument-from-select_bad_process-and-__out_of_memory.patch oom-fold-__out_of_memory-into-out_of_memory.patch mm-use-for_each_online_cpu-in-vmstat.patch memcg-remove-experimental-from-swap-account-config.patch memcg-clean-up-try_charge-main-loop-v2.patch memcg-clean-up-waiting-move-acct-v2.patch memcg-remove-redundant-codes.patch memcg-remove-mem-from-arg-of-charge_common.patch memcg-use-find_lock_task_mm-in-memory-cgroups-oom.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