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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() instead of unmap_page_range()
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On 2016/12/16 23:15, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Logic on whether we can reap pages from the VMA should match what we
> have in madvise_dontneed(). In particular, we should skip, VM_PFNMAP
> VMAs, but we don't now.
>
> Let's just call madvise_dontneed() from __oom_reap_task_mm(), so we
> won't need to sync the logic in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> mm/internal.h | 7 +++----
> mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> mm/oom_kill.c | 15 ++-------------
> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

madvise_dontneed() calls zap_page_range().
zap_page_range() calls mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start().
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() calls __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start().
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() calls srcu_read_lock()/srcu_read_unlock().
This means that madvise_dontneed() might sleep.

I don't know what individual notifier will do, but for example

static const struct mmu_notifier_ops i915_gem_userptr_notifier = {
.invalidate_range_start = i915_gem_userptr_mn_invalidate_range_start,
};

i915_gem_userptr_mn_invalidate_range_start() calls flush_workqueue()
which means that we can OOM livelock if work item involves memory allocation.
Some of other notifiers call mutex_lock()/mutex_unlock().

Even if none of currently in-tree notifier users are blocked on memory
allocation, I think it is not guaranteed that future changes/users won't be
blocked on memory allocation.

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