On Fri, 30 May 2014 02:51:10 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
wrote:
> Currently memory error handler handles action optional errors in the deferred
> manner by default. And if a recovery aware application wants to handle it
> immediately, it can do it by setting PF_MCE_EARLY flag. However, such signal
> can be sent only to the main thread, so it's problematic if the application
> wants to have a dedicated thread to handler such signals.
>
> So this patch adds dedicated thread support to memory error handler. We have
> PF_MCE_EARLY flags for each thread separately, so with this patch AO signal
> is sent to the thread with PF_MCE_EARLY flag set, not the main thread. If
> you want to implement a dedicated thread, you call prctl() to set PF_MCE_EARLY
> on the thread.
>
> Memory error handler collects processes to be killed, so this patch lets it
> check PF_MCE_EARLY flag on each thread in the collecting routines.
>
> No behavioral change for all non-early kill cases.
>
> ...
>
> --- mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -380,15 +380,44 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int
> forcekill, int trapno,
> }
> }
>
> -static int task_early_kill(struct task_struct *tsk, int force_early)
> +/*
> + * Find a dedicated thread which is supposed to handle SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO)
> + * on behalf of the thread group. Return task_struct of the (first found)
> + * dedicated thread if found, and return NULL otherwise.
> + */
> +static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *t;
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + for_each_thread(tsk, t)
> + if ((t->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS) && (t->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY))
> + goto found;
> + t = NULL;
> +found:
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + return t;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Determine whether a given process is "early kill" process which expects
> + * to be signaled when some page under the process is hwpoisoned.
> + * Return task_struct of the dedicated thread (main thread unless explicitly
> + * specified) if the process is "early kill," and otherwise returns NULL.
> + */
> +static struct task_struct *task_early_kill(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + int force_early)
> {
> + struct task_struct *t;
> if (!tsk->mm)
> - return 0;
> + return NULL;
> if (force_early)
> - return 1;
> - if (tsk->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS)
> - return !!(tsk->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY);
> - return sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill;
> + return tsk;
> + t = find_early_kill_thread(tsk);
> + if (t)
> + return t;
> + if (sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill)
> + return tsk;
> + return NULL;
> }
The above two functions are to be called under
read_lock(tasklist_lock), which is rather important...
Given this requirement, did find_early_kill_thread() need rcu_read_lock()?
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