On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:
> yes. I will fold the following in if this turned out to really address
> David's issue. But I suspect this will be the case considering the NULL
> pmd in the report which would suggest racing with free_pgtable...
>
I'm backporting and testing the following patch against Linus's tree. To
clarify an earlier point, we don't actually have any change from upstream
code that allows for free_pgtables() before the
set_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP);down_write();up_write() cycle.
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ static inline bool tsk_is_oom_victim(struct task_struct *
tsk)
return tsk->signal->oom_mm;
}
+/*
+ * Use this helper if tsk->mm != mm and the victim mm needs a special
+ * handling. This is guaranteed to stay true after once set.
+ */
+static inline bool mm_is_oom_victim(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ return test_bit(MMF_OOM_VICTIM, &mm->flags);
+}
+
/*
* Checks whether a page fault on the given mm is still reliable.
* This is no longer true if the oom reaper started to reap the
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
--- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
#define MMF_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE 23 /* mm has ever used the global huge
zero page */
#define MMF_DISABLE_THP 24 /* disable THP for all VMAs */
#define MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK (1 << MMF_DISABLE_THP)
+#define MMF_OOM_VICTIM 25 /* mm is the oom victim */
#define MMF_INIT_MASK (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK |\
MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK)
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -3019,20 +3019,20 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
/* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */
unmap_vmas(&tlb, vma, 0, -1);
- set_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP, &mm->flags);
- if (unlikely(tsk_is_oom_victim(current))) {
+ if (unlikely(mm_is_oom_victim(mm))) {
/*
* Wait for oom_reap_task() to stop working on this
* mm. Because MMF_OOM_SKIP is already set before
* calling down_read(), oom_reap_task() will not run
* on this "mm" post up_write().
*
- * tsk_is_oom_victim() cannot be set from under us
+ * mm_is_oom_victim() cannot be set from under us
* either because current->mm is already set to NULL
* under task_lock before calling mmput and oom_mm is
* set not NULL by the OOM killer only if current->mm
* is found not NULL while holding the task_lock.
*/
+ set_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP, &mm->flags);
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
}
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -683,8 +683,10 @@ static void mark_oom_victim(struct task_struct *tsk)
return;
/* oom_mm is bound to the signal struct life time. */
- if (!cmpxchg(&tsk->signal->oom_mm, NULL, mm))
+ if (!cmpxchg(&tsk->signal->oom_mm, NULL, mm)) {
mmgrab(tsk->signal->oom_mm);
+ set_bit(MMF_OOM_VICTIM, &mm->flags);
+ }
/*
* Make sure that the task is woken up from uninterruptible sleep
