Re: [PATCH] Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector

[dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:32:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:04:02 -0700
> 
> > This is an implementation of David Miller's suggested fix in:
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201
> > 
> > It has been updated to use wait_event() instead of
> > wait_event_interruptible().
> > 
> > Paraphrasing the description from the above report, it makes sendmsg()
> > block while UNIX garbage collection is in progress. This avoids a
> > situation where child processes continue to queue new FDs over a
> > AF_UNIX socket to a parent which is in the exit path and running
> > garbage collection on these FDs. This contention can result in soft
> > lockups and oom-killing of unrelated processes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks a lot Dann.

I was asked if this patch may introduce blocking during operations on
non-blocking sockets. Should we update wait_for_unix_gc (and its
callers) to something like this?

int wait_for_unix_gc(bool can_block)
{
    if (!can_block)
        return gc_in_progress ? -EWOULDBLOCK : 0;

    wait_event(unix_gc_wait, gc_in_progress == false);
    return 0;
}

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dann frazier