From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC5B96B01AC for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:58:33 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: Make coredump interruptible In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:53:25 +0200 <20100602175325.GA16474@redhat.com> References: <20100601093951.2430.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100601201843.GA20732@redhat.com> <20100602221805.F524.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100602154210.GA9622@redhat.com> <20100602172956.5A3E34A491@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20100602175325.GA16474@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20100602185812.4B5894A549@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML , linux-mm , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Nick Piggin List-ID: > Because it is per-thread. I see. > when select_bad_process() finds the task P to kill it can participate > in the core dump (sleep in exit_mm), but we should somehow inform the > thread which actually dumps the core: P->mm->core_state->dumper. Perhaps it should simply do that: if you would choose P to oom-kill, and P->mm->core_state!=NULL, then choose P->mm->core_state->dumper instead. > Well, we can use TIF_MEMDIE if we chose the right thread, I think. > But perhaps mm->flags |= MMF_OOM is better, it can have other user. > I dunno. This is all the quick hack before get around to just making core dumping fully-interruptible, no? So we should go with whatever is the simplest change now. Perhaps this belongs in another thread as you suggested. But I wonder what we might get just from s/TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE/TASK_KILLABLE/ in exit_mm. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org