From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: simplify remaining RCU sections with guard(rcu)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:51:29 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce245833-025b-497a-8a73-9862d033d48a@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <an2FHDjYy2IFEKsr@tiehlicka>
在 2026/8/13 16:49, Michal Hocko 写道:
> On Thu 13-08-26 11:26:33, Ye Liu wrote:
>> From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>>
>> Replace the remaining manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs
>> in oom_cpuset_eligible(), select_bad_process(), dump_tasks(),
>> task_will_free_mem(), and __oom_kill_process() with guard(rcu)() for
>> consistency and simpler control flow.
>
> Could you use scoped_guard instead? While all these functions do not
> perform anything pas the for loop this might change in the future and I
> find it more obvious what the actual scope for the RCU is rather than
> the full function one.
>>
Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated to V2.
>> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>> ---
>> mm/oom_kill.c | 15 +++++----------
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> index 4b5c70aaece4..8bbb5ca00bb6 100644
>> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
>> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static bool oom_cpuset_eligible(struct task_struct *start,
>> bool ret = false;
>> const nodemask_t *mask = oc->nodemask;
>>
>> - rcu_read_lock();
>> + guard(rcu)();
>> for_each_thread(start, tsk) {
>> if (mask) {
>> /*
>> @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ static bool oom_cpuset_eligible(struct task_struct *start,
>> if (ret)
>> break;
>> }
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> return ret;
>> }
>> @@ -368,11 +367,10 @@ static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
>> else {
>> struct task_struct *p;
>>
>> - rcu_read_lock();
>> + guard(rcu)();
>> for_each_process(p)
>> if (oom_evaluate_task(p, oc))
>> break;
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> @@ -430,14 +428,13 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct oom_control *oc)
>> struct task_struct *p;
>> int i = 0;
>>
>> - rcu_read_lock();
>> + guard(rcu)();
>> for_each_process(p) {
>> /* Avoid potential softlockup warning */
>> if ((++i & 1023) == 0)
>> touch_softlockup_watchdog();
>> dump_task(p, oc);
>> }
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> @@ -894,7 +891,7 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
>> * are dying as well to make sure that a) nobody pins its mm and
>> * b) the task is also reapable by the oom reaper.
>> */
>> - rcu_read_lock();
>> + guard(rcu)();
>> for_each_process(p) {
>> if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
>> continue;
>> @@ -904,7 +901,6 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
>> if (!ret)
>> break;
>> }
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> return ret;
>> }
>> @@ -960,7 +956,7 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
>> * That thread will now get access to memory reserves since it has a
>> * pending fatal signal.
>> */
>> - rcu_read_lock();
>> + guard(rcu)();
>> for_each_process(p) {
>> if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
>> continue;
>> @@ -982,7 +978,6 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
>> continue;
>> do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
>> }
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> if (can_oom_reap)
>> queue_oom_reaper(victim);
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>
--
Thanks,
Ye Liu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-13 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-13 3:26 [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: simplify remaining RCU sections with guard(rcu) Ye Liu
2026-08-13 8:49 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-13 9:51 ` Ye Liu [this message]
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