Re: + make-get_user_pages-interruptible.patch added to -mm tree

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

Ying Han wrote:
>
> -static int sigkill_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +int sigkill_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>  	return	sigismember(&tsk->pending.signal, SIGKILL) ||
>  		sigismember(&tsk->signal->shared_pending.signal, SIGKILL);
> diff -puN mm/memory.c~make-get_user_pages-interruptible mm/memory.c
> --- a/mm/memory.c~make-get_user_pages-interruptible
> +++ a/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1219,12 +1219,12 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct 
>  			struct page *page;
>
>  			/*
> -			 * If tsk is ooming, cut off its access to large memory
> -			 * allocations. It has a pending SIGKILL, but it can't
> -			 * be processed until returning to user space.
> +			 * If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep
> +			 * allocating memory.
>  			 */
> -			if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE)))
> -				return i ? i : -ENOMEM;
> +			if (unlikely(sigkill_pending(current) ||
> +					sigkill_pending(tsk)))

Please do not export/use sigkill_pending(). It is "private" for ptrace_stop()
(and actually should die imho).

We have fatal_signal_pending() for that.

Oleg.