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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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  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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