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oom: thaw the OOM victim if it is frozen
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oom_kill_process only sets TIF_MEMDIE flag and sends a signal to the
victim.  This is basically noop when the task is frozen though because the
task sleeps in the uninterruptible sleep.  The victim is eventually thawed
later when oom_scan_process_thread meets the task again in a later OOM
invocation so the OOM killer doesn't live lock.  But this is less than
optimal.

Let's add __thaw_task into mark_tsk_oom_victim after we set TIF_MEMDIE to
the victim.  We are not checking whether the task is frozen because that
would be racy and __thaw_task does that already.  oom_scan_process_thread
doesn't need to care about freezer anymore as TIF_MEMDIE and freezer are
excluded completely now.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Michal Hocko authored and torvalds committed Feb 12, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct task_struct *task,
* Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves.
*/
if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_MEMDIE)) {
if (unlikely(frozen(task)))
__thaw_task(task);
if (!force_kill)
return OOM_SCAN_ABORT;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -423,6 +421,14 @@ void note_oom_kill(void)
void mark_tsk_oom_victim(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE);

/*
* Make sure that the task is woken up from uninterruptible sleep
* if it is frozen because OOM killer wouldn't be able to free
* any memory and livelock. freezing_slow_path will tell the freezer
* that TIF_MEMDIE tasks should be ignored.
*/
__thaw_task(tsk);
}

/**
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