Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: drop oom code from exit_mmap

[Shuah Khan]

On 5/16/22 1:56 AM, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> The primary reason to invoke the oom reaper from the exit_mmap path used
> to be a prevention of an excessive oom killing if the oom victim exit
> races with the oom reaper (see [1] for more details). The invocation has
> moved around since then because of the interaction with the munlock
> logic but the underlying reason has remained the same (see [2]).
>
> Munlock code is no longer a problem since [3] and there shouldn't be
> any blocking operation before the memory is unmapped by exit_mmap so
> the oom reaper invocation can be dropped. The unmapping part can be done
> with the non-exclusive mmap_sem and the exclusive one is only required
> when page tables are freed.
>
> Remove the oom_reaper from exit_mmap which will make the code easier to
> read. This is really unlikely to make any observable difference although
> some microbenchmarks could benefit from one less branch that needs to be
> evaluated even though it almost never is true.
>
> [1] 212925802454 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently")
> [2] 27ae357fa82b ("mm, oom: fix concurrent munlock and oom reaper unmap, v3")
> [3] a213e5cf71cb ("mm/munlock: delete munlock_vma_pages_all(), allow oomreap")
>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah