Re: [patch] oom: avoid killing kthreads if they assume the oom killed thread's mm

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Mon 25-07-11 17:12:37, David Rientjes wrote:
> After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and
> kills all other threads that share the same mm_struct in different thread
> groups.  It would not otherwise be helpful to kill a thread if its memory
> would not be subsequently freed.
> 
> A kernel thread, however, may assume a user thread's mm by using
> use_mm().  This is only temporary and should not result in sending a
> SIGKILL to that kthread.

Good catch. Have you ever seen this happening?

> 
> This patch ensures that only user threads and not kthreads are sent a
> SIGKILL if they share the same mm_struct as the oom killed task.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
>  	task_unlock(p);
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Kill all processes sharing p->mm in other thread groups, if any.
> +	 * Kill all user processes sharing p->mm in other thread groups, if any.
>  	 * They don't get access to memory reserves or a higher scheduler
>  	 * priority, though, to avoid depletion of all memory or task
>  	 * starvation.  This prevents mm->mmap_sem livelock when an oom killed
> @@ -443,7 +443,8 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
>  	 * signal.
>  	 */
>  	for_each_process(q)
> -		if (q->mm == mm && !same_thread_group(q, p)) {
> +		if (q->mm == mm && !same_thread_group(q, p) &&
> +		    !(q->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
>  			task_lock(q);	/* Protect ->comm from prctl() */
>  			pr_err("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n",
>  				task_pid_nr(q), q->comm);
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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