From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with cpuset update
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:08:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518090846.GD25462@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1705171021570.9487@east.gentwo.org>
On Wed 17-05-17 10:25:09, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > > If you have screwy things like static mbinds in there then you are
> > > hopelessly lost anyways. You may have moved the process to another set
> > > of nodes but the static bindings may refer to a node no longer
> > > available. Thus the OOM is legitimate.
> >
> > The point is that you do _not_ want such a process to trigger the OOM
> > because it can cause other processes being killed.
>
> Nope. The OOM in a cpuset gets the process doing the alloc killed. Or what
> that changed?
>
> At this point you have messed up royally and nothing is going to rescue
> you anyways. OOM or not does not matter anymore. The app will fail.
Not really. If you can trick the system to _think_ that the intersection
between mempolicy and the cpuset is empty then the OOM killer might
trigger an innocent task rather than the one which tricked it into that
situation.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-11 14:06 [RFC 0/6] cpuset/mempolicies related fixes and cleanups Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with cpuset update Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 17:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-04-11 19:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-12 21:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-04-13 6:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-14 20:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-04-26 8:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-30 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-17 9:20 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-17 13:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-17 14:05 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-17 14:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-17 14:56 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-17 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-18 9:08 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-05-18 16:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-18 17:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-18 19:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-19 7:37 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-17 15:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-18 10:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-05-18 17:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-19 11:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-13 5:42 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-04-13 6:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-13 6:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 2/6] mm, mempolicy: stop adjusting current->il_next in mpol_rebind_nodemask() Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 17:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-04-11 19:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-12 8:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-12 21:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-04-12 21:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 3/6] mm, page_alloc: pass preferred nid instead of zonelist to allocator Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 4/6] mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 5/6] mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-12 8:10 ` Hillf Danton
2017-04-12 8:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 14:06 ` [RFC 6/6] mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter Vlastimil Babka
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