mm, oom_reaper: do not mmput synchronously from the oom reaper context

Tetsuo has properly noted that mmput slow path might get blocked waiting
for another party (e.g.  exit_aio waits for an IO).  If that happens the
oom_reaper would be put out of the way and will not be able to process
next oom victim.  We should strive for making this context as reliable
and independent on other subsystems as much as possible.

Introduce mmput_async which will perform the slow path from an async
(WQ) context.  This will delay the operation but that shouldn't be a
problem because the oom_reaper has reclaimed the victim's address space
for most cases as much as possible and the remaining context shouldn't
bind too much memory anymore.  The only exception is when mmap_sem
trylock has failed which shouldn't happen too often.

The issue is only theoretical but not impossible.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko
2016-05-20 16:57:21 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bb8a4b7fd1
commit ec8d7c14ea
4 changed files with 49 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -2730,6 +2730,11 @@ static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct * mm)
/* mmput gets rid of the mappings and all user-space */
extern void mmput(struct mm_struct *);
/* same as above but performs the slow path from the async kontext. Can
* be called from the atomic context as well
*/
extern void mmput_async(struct mm_struct *);
/* Grab a reference to a task's mm, if it is not already going away */
extern struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task);
/*