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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
	mhocko@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during reclaim/compaction retry attempt
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 20:32:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKVn69o1UizH0kJD@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210519192321.3247175-1-atomlin@redhat.com>

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 08:23:21PM +0100, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -4252,6 +4252,9 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
>  	if (!order)
>  		return false;
>  
> +	if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> +		goto out;

I think 'goto out' will be confusing.  It'll output a tracepoint, which
isn't going to record that a fatal signal is pending, so it'll cause
some head scratching for someone looking through the traces.  I
think we should just return false here and skip the tracepoint.

But I'd defer to someone like Vlastimil or Michal who know this code far
better than I do.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-19 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 19:23 [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during reclaim/compaction retry attempt Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-19 19:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-05-19 19:48   ` Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-19 20:17   ` [PATCH v3] " Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-20  4:34     ` Andrew Morton
2021-05-20 10:20       ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-20 11:42         ` Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-20 11:56           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-20 13:30             ` Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-20 14:29             ` [PATCH v4] " Aaron Tomlin
2021-05-28 12:53               ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-31 11:33               ` Michal Hocko
2021-05-31 11:35                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-31 13:21                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-05-20 11:09       ` [PATCH v3] " Matthew Wilcox

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