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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, jsavitz@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	dvhart@infradead.org, dave@stgolabs.net,
	andrealmeid@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/oom: do not oom reap task with an unresolved robust futex
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 15:24:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yh9+O/xqNLnV1jmA@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118fc685-c68d-614f-006a-7d5487302122@redhat.com>

Sorry, this has slipped through cracks.

On Mon 14-02-22 15:39:31, Nico Pache wrote:
[...]
> We've recently been discussing the following if statement in __oom_reap_task_mm:
> 	if (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
> 
> Given the comment above it, and some of the upstream discussion the original
> RFC, we are struggling to see why this should be a `||` and not an `&&`. If we
> only want to reap anon memory and reaping shared memory can be dangerous is this
> statement incorrect?
> 
> We have a patch queued up to make this change, but wanted to get your opinion on
> why this was originally designed this way in case we are missing something.

I do not really see why this would be wrong. Private file backed
mappings can contain a reapable memory as well. I do not see how this
would solve the futex issue.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-02 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-14 18:01 Nico Pache
2022-01-17  8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-17 16:05   ` Waiman Long
2022-01-17 22:56     ` Nico Pache
2022-01-18  8:51       ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-14 20:39         ` Nico Pache
2022-03-02 14:24           ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-03-02 17:26             ` Nico Pache
2022-03-03  7:48               ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-09  0:24                 ` Nico Pache

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