From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04 of 24] serialize oom killer
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:04:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070912050447.2722f4dc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912050205.a6b243a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:02:05 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > + up(&OOM_lock);
> > +}
>
> Please use mutexes, not semaphores. I'll make this change.
gargh, shit, OOM_lock is all over the patch series.
Is there some reason why it had to be a semaphore? Does it get upped by
tasks which didn't down it? Does the semaphore counting feature get used?
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Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 12:48 [PATCH 00 of 24] OOM related fixes Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 01 of 24] remove nr_scan_inactive/active Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 11:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-02 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 02 of 24] avoid oom deadlock in nfs_create_request Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 23:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 03 of 24] prevent oom deadlocks during read/write operations Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 11:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 2:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-03 0:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 04 of 24] serialize oom killer Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 12:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-12 12:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03 0:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-13 0:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 18:32 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-13 18:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 18:46 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-13 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 0:36 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-14 2:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 3:33 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 16:44 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 16:44 ` [patch 1/4] oom: move prototypes to appropriate header file David Rientjes
2007-09-18 16:44 ` [patch 2/4] oom: move constraints to enum David Rientjes
2007-09-18 16:44 ` [patch 3/4] oom: save zonelist pointer for oom killer calls David Rientjes
2007-09-18 16:44 ` [patch 4/4] oom: serialize out of memory calls David Rientjes
2007-09-18 19:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 19:56 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 20:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:06 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 20:23 ` [patch 5/4] oom: rename serialization helper functions David Rientjes
2007-09-18 20:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:39 ` [patch 5/4 v2] " David Rientjes
2007-09-18 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 19:57 ` [patch 3/4] oom: save zonelist pointer for oom killer calls Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:13 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 20:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:47 ` [patch 6/4] oom: pass null to kfree if zonelist is not cleared David Rientjes
2007-09-18 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 21:13 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 21:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 22:16 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 17:09 ` Paul Jackson
2007-09-19 18:21 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-18 19:55 ` [patch 2/4] oom: move constraints to enum Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 05 of 24] avoid selecting already killed tasks Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-13 0:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 06 of 24] reduce the probability of an OOM livelock Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03 1:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 07 of 24] balance_pgdat doesn't return the number of pages freed Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 0:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 08 of 24] don't depend on PF_EXITING tasks to go away Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03 0:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 09 of 24] fallback killing more tasks if tif-memdie doesn't " Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 12:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03 1:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 10 of 24] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 0:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-21 19:10 ` David Rientjes
2008-01-03 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 11 of 24] the oom schedule timeout isn't needed with the VM_is_OOM logic Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 12:48 ` [PATCH 12 of 24] show mem information only when a task is actually being killed Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 13 of 24] simplify oom heuristics Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 13:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 14 of 24] oom select should only take rss into account Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-13 0:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 15 of 24] limit reclaim if enough pages have been freed Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:57 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03 1:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 13:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 16 of 24] avoid some lock operation in vm fast path Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 12:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 0:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 1:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 1:41 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-09-13 1:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 17 of 24] apply the anti deadlock features only to global oom Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 13:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 0:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 0:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 18 of 24] run panic the same way in both places Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-13 0:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 19 of 24] cacheline align VM_is_OOM to prevent false sharing Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 13:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 13:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-13 0:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 20 of 24] extract deadlock helper function Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 21 of 24] select process to kill for cpusets Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 13:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 0:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 5:13 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-13 17:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 22 of 24] extract select helper function Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 23 of 24] serialize for cpusets Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 13:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-12 13:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 19:08 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-13 1:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH 24 of 24] add oom_kill_asking_task flag Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-12 13:11 ` Andrew Morton
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