Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:29:05 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm, oom: do not grant oom victims full memory reserves access |
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On Tue 01-08-17 13:23:44, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 02:16:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Thu 27-07-17 11:03:55, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Hi, > > > this is a part of a larger series I posted back in Oct last year [1]. I > > > have dropped patch 3 because it was incorrect and patch 4 is not > > > applicable without it. > > > > > > The primary reason to apply patch 1 is to remove a risk of the complete > > > memory depletion by oom victims. While this is a theoretical risk right > > > now there is a demand for memcg aware oom killer which might kill all > > > processes inside a memcg which can be a lot of tasks. That would make > > > the risk quite real. > > > > > > This issue is addressed by limiting access to memory reserves. We no > > > longer use TIF_MEMDIE to grant the access and use tsk_is_oom_victim > > > instead. See Patch 1 for more details. Patch 2 is a trivial follow up > > > cleanup. > > > > Any comments, concerns? Can we merge it? > > I've rebased the cgroup-aware OOM killer and ran some tests. > Everything works well.
Thanks for your testing. Can I assume your Tested-by? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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