Re: + make-get_user_pages-interruptible.patch added to -mm tree

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 15:06:46 EST


Ying Han wrote:
>
> -static int sigkill_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +int sigkill_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> return sigismember(&tsk->pending.signal, SIGKILL) ||
> sigismember(&tsk->signal->shared_pending.signal, SIGKILL);
> diff -puN mm/memory.c~make-get_user_pages-interruptible mm/memory.c
> --- a/mm/memory.c~make-get_user_pages-interruptible
> +++ a/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1219,12 +1219,12 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
> struct page *page;
>
> /*
> - * If tsk is ooming, cut off its access to large memory
> - * allocations. It has a pending SIGKILL, but it can't
> - * be processed until returning to user space.
> + * If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep
> + * allocating memory.
> */
> - if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE)))
> - return i ? i : -ENOMEM;
> + if (unlikely(sigkill_pending(current) ||
> + sigkill_pending(tsk)))

Please do not export/use sigkill_pending(). It is "private" for ptrace_stop()
(and actually should die imho).

We have fatal_signal_pending() for that.

Oleg.

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