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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: KUROSAWA Takahiro <kurosawa@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oom-killer causes lockups in cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap()
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:23:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B6866F.9080701@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051228004026.72F3474005@sv1.valinux.co.jp>

yes, we found the same problem while looking at the code.
and this is not the only cpuset function which might sleep, but is 
called from atomic context... :(

> The oom-killer causes lockups because it calls
> cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap() with tasklist_lock read-locked.
> cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap() gets cpuset_sem (or callback_sem in
> later linux versions) semaphore, which might_sleep even if the
> semaphore could be down without sleeping.  If processes call
> exit() or fork() when the oom-killer sleeps in the down(), they
> lockup because they call write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock).
> 
> The lockup occurred on linux-2.6.14.  The problem also seems to exist
> in linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm3 and linux-2.6.15-rc7.
> 
> Regards,
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-31 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-28  0:40 oom-killer causes lockups in cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap() KUROSAWA Takahiro
2005-12-31 13:23 ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2006-01-03 21:34 ` Paul Jackson

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