Re: 2.5.74-mm1

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 06:46:58 EST


On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:18:44AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> How about this, then? I think it's still racy against something doing
> daemonize(), though (i.e. if q does daemonize() it shoots it regardless).

Take 2:

===== mm/oom_kill.c 1.23 vs edited =====
--- 1.23/mm/oom_kill.c Wed Apr 23 03:15:53 2003
+++ edited/mm/oom_kill.c Sat Jul 5 04:46:17 2003
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
         struct task_struct *chosen = NULL;
 
         do_each_thread(g, p)
- if (p->pid) {
+ if (p->pid && p->mm) {
                         int points = badness(p);
                         if (points > maxpoints) {
                                 chosen = p;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
  * CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set, send SIGTERM instead (but it's unlikely that
  * we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set).
  */
-void oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
+static void __oom_kill_task(task_t *p)
 {
         printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, p->comm);
 
@@ -161,6 +161,16 @@
         }
 }
 
+static struct mm_struct *oom_kill_task(task_t *p)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p);
+ if (!mm || mm == &init_mm)
+ return NULL;
+ __oom_kill_task(p);
+ return mm;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * oom_kill - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory
  *
@@ -171,9 +181,11 @@
  */
 static void oom_kill(void)
 {
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
         struct task_struct *g, *p, *q;
         
         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+retry:
         p = select_bad_process();
 
         /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
@@ -182,17 +194,20 @@
                 panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
         }
 
- oom_kill_task(p);
+ mm = oom_kill_task(p);
+ if (!mm)
+ goto retry;
         /*
          * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
          * but are in a different thread group
          */
         do_each_thread(g, q)
- if (q->mm == p->mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
- oom_kill_task(q);
+ if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
+ __oom_kill_task(q);
         while_each_thread(g, q);
 
         read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ mmput(mm);
 
         /*
          * Make kswapd go out of the way, so "p" has a good chance of
-
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