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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch v3] mm, oom: fix unnecessary killing of additional processes
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 14:35:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180709123524.GK22049@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1807061652430.71359@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri 06-07-18 17:05:39, David Rientjes wrote:
[...]
> Blockable mmu notifiers and mlocked memory is not the extent of the 
> problem, if a process has a lot of virtual memory we must wait until 
> free_pgtables() completes in exit_mmap() to prevent unnecessary oom 
> killing.  For implementations such as tcmalloc, which does not release 
> virtual memory, this is important because, well, it releases this only at 
> exit_mmap().  Of course we cannot do that with only the protection of 
> mm->mmap_sem for read.

And how exactly a timeout helps to prevent from "unnecessary killing" in
that case?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-21 21:35 David Rientjes
2018-07-04  1:43 ` David Rientjes
2018-07-04  2:26   ` penguin-kernel
2018-07-05 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-06  5:39   ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-07  0:05   ` David Rientjes
2018-07-09 12:35     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-07-09 20:30       ` David Rientjes
2018-07-10 11:01         ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-17 21:09 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-18 20:22   ` David Rientjes
2018-07-18 21:21     ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-19 14:23       ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-20  8:41       ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20  9:57         ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-20 20:19           ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20 20:47             ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-20 22:19               ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20 20:14         ` [patch v4] " David Rientjes
2018-07-20 20:43           ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-20 22:13             ` David Rientjes
2018-07-21  2:47               ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-24 21:45                 ` David Rientjes
2018-07-24 22:31                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-24 22:51                     ` David Rientjes
2018-07-24 22:55                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-25  0:24                         ` David Rientjes
2018-07-24 21:44           ` [patch v5] " David Rientjes

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