From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] vhost, mm: make sure that oom_reaper doesn't reap memory read by vhost
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 18:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707164602.GC3063@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160707084159.GE5379@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 07/07, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> On Sun 03-07-16 17:18:29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> [...]
> > Or perhaps we can change oom_kill_process() to send SIGKILL to kthreads as
> > well, this should not have any effect unless kthread does allow_signal(SIGKILL),
> > then we can change vhost_worker() to catch SIGKILL and react somehow. Not sure
> > this is really possible.
>
> But then we would have to check for the signal after every memory
> access no? This sounds much more error prone than the test being wrapped
> inside the copy_from... API to me.
At least I agree this doesn't look nice too.
Oleg.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-07 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-01 9:26 [RFC PATCH 0/6] fortify oom killer even more Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] oom: keep mm of the killed task available Michal Hocko
2016-07-03 2:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-07-07 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-07 11:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-07-07 13:32 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] oom, suspend: fix oom_killer_disable vs. pm suspend properly Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] exit, oom: postpone exit_oom_victim to later Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] oom, oom_reaper: consider mmget_not_zero as a failure Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] vhost, mm: make sure that oom_reaper doesn't reap memory read by vhost Michal Hocko
2016-07-03 13:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-03 14:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-07-03 15:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-03 15:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-07-03 16:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-03 21:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-07-07 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-07 15:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-07-08 12:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-11 14:14 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-12 14:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-07 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-07 16:46 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-07-07 8:39 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-22 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-01 9:26 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the kthreads Michal Hocko
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