Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary

Michal Hocko
2020-08-20T11:30:54Z

On Thu 20-08-20 13:13:55, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 20-08-20 12:55:56, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 08/19, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > >
> > > Since the combination of CLONE_VM and !CLONE_SIGHAND is rarely
> > > used the additional mutex lock in that path of the clone() syscall should
> > > not affect its overall performance. Clearing the MMF_PROC_SHARED flag
> > > (when the last process sharing the mm exits) is left out of this patch to
> > > keep it simple and because it is believed that this threading model is
> > > rare.
> >
> > vfork() ?
>
> Could you be more specific?
>
> > > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > > @@ -1403,6 +1403,15 @@ static int copy_mm(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > > if (clone_flags & CLONE_VM) {
> > > mmget(oldmm);
> > > mm = oldmm;
> > > + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)) {
> >
> > I agree with Christian, you need CLONE_THREAD
>
> This was my suggestion to Suren, likely because I've misrememberd which
> clone flag is responsible for the signal delivery. But now, after double
> checking we do explicitly disallow CLONE_SIGHAND && !CLONE_VM. So
> CLONE_THREAD is the right thing to check.

I have tried to remember but I have to say that after reading man page I
am still confused. So what is the actual difference between CLONE_THREAD
and CLONE_SIGHAND? Essentially all we care about from the OOM (and
oom_score_adj) POV is that signals are delivered to all entities and
that thay share signal struct. copy_signal is checking for CLONE_THREAD
but CLONE_THREAD requires CLONE_SIGHAND AFAIU. So is there any cae where
checking for CLONE_SIGHAND would wrong for our purpose?

This is mostly an academic question because I do agree that checking for
CLONE_THREAD is likely more readable. And in fact the MMF_PROC_SHARED is
likely more suitable to be set in copy_signal.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs