From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/18] prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:18:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426151841.GQ152091@stormcage.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461675385-5934-15-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org>
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:56:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> PR_SET_THP_DISABLE requires mmap_sem for write. If the waiting
> task gets killed by the oom killer it would block oom_reaper from
> asynchronous address space reclaim and reduce the chances of timely OOM
> resolving. Wait for the lock in the killable mode and return with EINTR
> if the task got killed while waiting.
>
> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Looks good to me - I wrote that bit of code so I think this can get an:
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Thanks for Ccing me!
- Alex
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-26 12:56 [PATCH 0/18] change mmap_sem taken for write killable v2 Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 01/18] mm: Make mmap_sem for write waits killable for mm syscalls Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 02/18] mm: make vm_mmap killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 03/18] mm: make vm_munmap killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 04/18] mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 05/18] mm, elf: handle vm_brk error Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 06/18] mm: make vm_brk killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 08/18] mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 09/18] ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 10/18] vdso: make arch_setup_additional_pages wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 11/18] coredump: make coredump_wait " Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 12/18] aio: make aio_setup_ring killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 13/18] exec: make exec path waiting for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 14/18] prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait " Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 15:18 ` Alex Thorlton [this message]
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 15/18] uprobes: wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 16/18] drm/i915: make i915_gem_mmap_ioctl wait for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 17/18] drm/radeon: make radeon_mn_get " Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 18/18] drm/amdgpu: make amdgpu_mn_get " Michal Hocko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-29 13:26 [PATCH 0/18] change mmap_sem taken for write killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 14/18] prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 12:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
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