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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2016-03-08 20:01:32 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-04-04 12:41:24 -0700
commit77ed2c5745d93416992857d124f35834b62b3e70 (patch)
tree205e9362221f554bd9da0f83418481236ecc3ed3 /drivers/staging/android
parenteb7bfed901b9fea6e48bec10009dc8c8641e36e7 (diff)
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android,lowmemorykiller: Don't abuse TIF_MEMDIE.
Currently, lowmemorykiller (LMK) is using TIF_MEMDIE for two purposes. One is to remember processes killed by LMK, and the other is to accelerate termination of processes killed by LMK. But since LMK is invoked as a memory shrinker function, there still should be some memory available. It is very likely that memory allocations by processes killed by LMK will succeed without using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS via TIF_MEMDIE. Even if their allocations cannot escape from memory allocation loop unless they use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, lowmem_deathpending_timeout can guarantee forward progress by choosing next victim process. On the other hand, mark_oom_victim() assumes that it must be called with oom_lock held and it must not be called after oom_killer_disable() was called. But LMK is calling it without holding oom_lock and checking oom_killer_disabled. It is possible that LMK calls mark_oom_victim() due to allocation requests by kernel threads after current thread returned from oom_killer_disabled(). This will break synchronization for PM/suspend. This patch introduces per a task_struct flag for remembering processes killed by LMK, and replaces TIF_MEMDIE with that flag. By applying this patch, assumption by mark_oom_victim() becomes true. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Arve Hjonnevag <arve@android.com> Cc: Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c9
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
index 2509e5df7244..c79f22425fa8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
if (!p)
continue;
- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE) &&
+ if (task_lmk_waiting(p) && p->mm &&
time_before_eq(jiffies, lowmem_deathpending_timeout)) {
task_unlock(p);
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -162,13 +162,8 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
if (selected) {
task_lock(selected);
send_sig(SIGKILL, selected, 0);
- /*
- * FIXME: lowmemorykiller shouldn't abuse global OOM killer
- * infrastructure. There is no real reason why the selected
- * task should have access to the memory reserves.
- */
if (selected->mm)
- mark_oom_victim(selected);
+ task_set_lmk_waiting(selected);
task_unlock(selected);
lowmem_print(1, "Killing '%s' (%d), adj %hd,\n"
" to free %ldkB on behalf of '%s' (%d) because\n"
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