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author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2016-06-24 14:50:16 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -0700 |
commit | 74070542099c66d87aebeacd7b54dc0e8b6a73f9 (patch) | |
tree | 211ec6be9be7c8ac97abf9c54e8c11f8758d2adb /kernel/power | |
parent | 7186ee06b66313dae0d34ec5241fda7c4a537cb9 (diff) |
oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race
Tetsuo has reported the following potential oom_killer_disable vs.
oom_reaper race:
(1) freeze_processes() starts freezing user space threads.
(2) Somebody (maybe a kenrel thread) calls out_of_memory().
(3) The OOM killer calls mark_oom_victim() on a user space thread
P1 which is already in __refrigerator().
(4) oom_killer_disable() sets oom_killer_disabled = true.
(5) P1 leaves __refrigerator() and enters do_exit().
(6) The OOM reaper calls exit_oom_victim(P1) before P1 can call
exit_oom_victim(P1).
(7) oom_killer_disable() returns while P1 not yet finished
(8) P1 perform IO/interfere with the freezer.
This situation is unfortunate. We cannot move oom_killer_disable after
all the freezable kernel threads are frozen because the oom victim might
depend on some of those kthreads to make a forward progress to exit so
we could deadlock. It is also far from trivial to teach the oom_reaper
to not call exit_oom_victim() because then we would lose a guarantee of
the OOM killer and oom_killer_disable forward progress because
exit_mm->mmput might block and never call exit_oom_victim.
It seems the easiest way forward is to workaround this race by calling
try_to_freeze_tasks again after oom_killer_disable. This will make sure
that all the tasks are frozen or it bails out.
Fixes: 449d777d7ad6 ("mm, oom_reaper: clear TIF_MEMDIE for all tasks queued for oom_reaper")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466597634-16199-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/power/process.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c index df058bed53ce..0c2ee9761d57 100644 --- a/kernel/power/process.c +++ b/kernel/power/process.c @@ -146,6 +146,18 @@ int freeze_processes(void) if (!error && !oom_killer_disable()) error = -EBUSY; + /* + * There is a hard to fix race between oom_reaper kernel thread + * and oom_killer_disable. oom_reaper calls exit_oom_victim + * before the victim reaches exit_mm so try to freeze all the tasks + * again and catch such a left over task. + */ + if (!error) { + pr_info("Double checking all user space processes after OOM killer disable... "); + error = try_to_freeze_tasks(true); + pr_cont("\n"); + } + if (error) thaw_processes(); return error; |