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Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap
Date 2017-06-27 14:10 +0200
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On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after all
> > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took
> > > more than one second.
> > 
> > if we reach down_write then we have unmapped the address space in
> > exit_mmap and oom reaper cannot do much more.
> 
> So, by the time down_write() is called, majority of memory is already released, isn't it?

In most cases yes. To be put it in other words. By the time exit_mmap
takes down_write there is nothing more oom reaper could reclaim.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-26 15:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-06-27 13:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 13:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-06-27 13:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 14:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-06-27 15:40 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 16:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-06-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 16:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-29 10:50 +0200

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