Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: account the number of isolated pagesper zone

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Jan 25 2017 - 07:35:01 EST


On Wed 25-01-17 19:33:59, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I think we are missing a check for fatal_signal_pending in
> > iomap_file_buffered_write. This means that an oom victim can consume the
> > full memory reserves. What do you think about the following? I haven't
> > tested this but it mimics generic_perform_write so I guess it should
> > work.
>
> Looks OK to me. I worried
>
> #define AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 0x0001 /* will not do a short write */
>
> which forbids (!?) aborting the loop. But it seems that this flag is
> no longer checked (i.e. set but not used). So, everybody should be ready
> for short write, although I don't know whether exofs / hfs / hfsplus are
> doing appropriate error handling.

Those were using generic implementation before and that handles this
case AFAICS.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs