From 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:11:30 -0700 Subject: x86,mm: make pagefault killable When an oom killing occurs, almost all processes are getting stuck at the following two points. 1) __alloc_pages_nodemask 2) __lock_page_or_retry 1) is not very problematic because TIF_MEMDIE leads to an allocation failure and getting out from page allocator. 2) is more problematic. In an OOM situation, zones typically don't have page cache at all and memory starvation might lead to greatly reduced IO performance. When a fork bomb occurs, TIF_MEMDIE tasks don't die quickly, meaning that a fork bomb may create new process quickly rather than the oom-killer killing it. Then, the system may become livelocked. This patch makes the pagefault interruptible by SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/mm') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index bcb394dfbb35..f7a2a054a3c0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) struct mm_struct *mm; int fault; int write = error_code & PF_WRITE; - unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | + unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE | (write ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0); tsk = current; @@ -1138,6 +1138,16 @@ good_area: return; } + /* + * Pagefault was interrupted by SIGKILL. We have no reason to + * continue pagefault. + */ + if ((fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) && fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + if (!(error_code & PF_USER)) + no_context(regs, error_code, address); + return; + } + /* * Major/minor page fault accounting is only done on the * initial attempt. If we go through a retry, it is extremely -- cgit v1.2.1