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David Rientjes 7b98c2e402 oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed 
It's possible to livelock the page allocator if a thread has mm->mmap_sem
and fails to make forward progress because the oom killer selects another
thread sharing the same ->mm to kill that cannot exit until the semaphore
is dropped.

The oom killer will not kill multiple tasks at the same time; each oom
killed task must exit before another task may be killed.  Thus, if one
thread is holding mm->mmap_sem and cannot allocate memory, all threads
sharing the same ->mm are blocked from exiting as well.  In the oom kill
case, that means the thread holding mm->mmap_sem will never free
additional memory since it cannot get access to memory reserves and the
thread that depends on it with access to memory reserves cannot exit
because it cannot acquire the semaphore.  Thus, the page allocators
livelocks.

When the oom killer is called and current happens to have a pending
SIGKILL, this patch automatically gives it access to memory reserves and
returns.  Upon returning to the page allocator, its allocation will
hopefully succeed so it can quickly exit and free its memory.  If not, the
page allocator will fail the allocation if it is not __GFP_NOFAIL.

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
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Kconfig lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
Makefile lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
backing-dev.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 09:23:07 -07:00
bootmem.c x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used 2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
bounce.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
fremap.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage 2010-08-05 09:22:24 -05:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ksm.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
memblock.c lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix wake up in oom wait queue 2010-06-29 15:29:30 -07:00
memory-failure.c KVM: Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address() 2010-08-01 10:47:11 +03:00
memory.c mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area 2010-07-30 18:56:09 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone 2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol 2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mincore.c mincore: do nested page table walks 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c mm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices 2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed 2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove writeback_inodes_wbc 2010-07-06 08:54:03 +02:00
page_alloc.c x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used 2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
page_cgroup.c kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup() 2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online 2010-06-27 18:50:00 +02:00
percpu_up.c percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
prio_tree.c
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quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
shmem.c fix truncate inode time modification breakage 2010-06-04 17:16:30 -04:00
slab.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slob.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too 2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap.c mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules 2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swap_state.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swapfile.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6 2010-05-21 15:26:46 -07:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c fs: introduce new truncate sequence 2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
util.c mm: use memdup_user 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: use ERR_CAST 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmscan.c mm/vmscan.c: fix mapping use after free 2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation fails 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00