From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Subject: Re: zram OOM behavior
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:18:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121101051852.GE24883@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1210312136370.17607@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:38:47PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
>
> > If mutiple threads are page faulting and try to allocate memory, then they
> > should go to oom path and they will reach following code.
> >
> > if (task->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> > if (task == current)
> > return OOM_SCAN_SELECT;
> >
>
> No, OOM_SCAN_SELECT does not return immediately and kill that process; it
> only prefers to kill that process first iff the oom killer isn't deferred
> because it finds TIF_MEMDIE threads or other PF_EXITING threads other than
> current. So if multiple processes are in the exit path with PF_EXITING
> and require additional memory then the oom killed may defer without
> killing anything. That's what I suspect is happening in this case.
Indeed.
Thanks for correcting me, David.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-01 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 17:32 zram OOM behavior Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-03 13:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
[not found] ` <CAA25o9SwO209DD6CUx-LzhMt9XU6niGJ-fBPmgwfcrUvf0BPWA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-12 23:30 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-15 14:44 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-15 18:54 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-16 6:18 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-16 17:36 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-19 17:49 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-22 23:53 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-23 0:40 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-23 6:03 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-29 18:26 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-29 19:00 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-29 22:36 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-29 22:52 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-29 23:23 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-29 23:34 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-30 0:18 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-30 0:45 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-30 5:41 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-30 19:12 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-30 20:30 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-30 22:32 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 18:42 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-30 22:37 ` Sonny Rao
2012-10-31 4:46 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-31 6:14 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 6:28 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 18:45 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-31 0:57 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 1:06 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 1:27 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 3:49 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 7:24 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 16:07 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-10-31 17:49 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-10-31 18:54 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-31 21:40 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 2:11 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-01 4:38 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-01 5:18 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2012-11-01 2:43 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-01 4:48 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-01 5:26 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-01 8:28 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-01 15:57 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 15:58 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 21:48 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-01 17:50 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 21:50 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-01 21:58 ` [patch] mm, oom: allow exiting threads to have access to memory reserves David Rientjes
2012-11-01 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-01 23:05 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-01 23:06 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 22:04 ` zram OOM behavior Luigi Semenzato
2012-11-01 22:25 ` David Rientjes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-02 6:39 Minchan Kim
2012-11-02 8:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-02 22:36 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-05 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 0:25 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-06 8:58 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 10:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-09 9:50 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-12 13:32 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-12 14:06 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 13:31 ` Minchan Kim
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