From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118E36B0038 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:51:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by pacej9 with SMTP id ej9so54161141pac.2 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pa0-x22a.google.com (mail-pa0-x22a.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22a]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id lq8si428360pab.72.2015.11.25.02.51.40 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by pacej9 with SMTP id ej9so54160934pac.2 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:51:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:51:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: Give __GFP_NOFAIL allocations access to memory reserves In-Reply-To: <1448448054-804-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <1448448054-804-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <1448448054-804-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Michal Hocko On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > __GFP_NOFAIL is a big hammer used to ensure that the allocation > request can never fail. This is a strong requirement and as such > it also deserves a special treatment when the system is OOM. The > primary problem here is that the allocation request might have > come with some locks held and the oom victim might be blocked > on the same locks. This is basically an OOM deadlock situation. > > This patch tries to reduce the risk of such a deadlocks by giving > __GFP_NOFAIL allocations a special treatment and let them dive into > memory reserves after oom killer invocation. This should help them > to make a progress and release resources they are holding. The OOM > victim should compensate for the reserves consumption. > > Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko > --- > mm/page_alloc.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 8034909faad2..70db11c27046 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -2766,8 +2766,13 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, > goto out; > } > /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */ > - if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) > + if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) { > *did_some_progress = 1; > + > + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) > + page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, > + ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS|ALLOC_CPUSET, ac); > + } > out: > mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); > return page; I don't understand why you're setting ALLOC_CPUSET if you're giving them "special treatment". If you want to allow access to memory reserves to prevent an oom livelock, then why not also allow it access to allocate outside its cpuset? -- 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