On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 18:36 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > What bounds the amount of memory waiting to be freed during an rcu grace
> > > period?
> >
> > Most RCU implementations don't have limits, so that could be quite a
> > lot. I think preemptible RCU has a batch limit at which point it tries
> > rather hard to force a grace period, but I'm not sure if even that
> > provides a hard limit.
> >
> > Practically though, I haven't had reports of PPC/Sparc going funny
> > because of this.
>
> It could be considered a DoS if a user is able to free page tables
> faster than rcu is able to recycle them, possibly triggering the oom
> killer (should that force a grace period before firing from the hip?)
One would think that would be a good thing, yes. However I cannot seem
to find anything like that in the current OOM killer. David, Paul, I
seem to have vague recollections of a discussion about RCU vs OOM, what
was the resolution (if anything) and would something like the below make
sense?
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 46bf2ed5..244a371 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ int try_set_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t
gfp_mask)
struct zone *zone;
int ret = 1;
+ synchronize_sched();
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
spin_lock(&zone_scan_lock);
for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(gfp_mask)) {
if (zone_is_oom_locked(zone)) {
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