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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Nico Pache" <npache@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Darren Hart" <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	"Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: wake futex waiters before annihilating victim shared mutex
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:51:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbG1mu0CLONo+Z7l@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1p7m4ka1v-Zoi-RpDy5ME-bMikGPX5V_4Hod-Y0KHOq_G8zA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed 08-12-21 21:59:29, Joel Savitz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 11:05 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
[...]
> > I have had a closer look and I guess I can see what you are trying to
> > achieve. futex_exit_release is normally called from exit_mm context. You
> > are likely seeing a situation when the oom victim is blocked and cannot
> > exit. That is certainly possible but it shouldn't be a permanent state.
> > So I would be more interested about your particular issue and how long
> > the task has been stuck unable to exit.
> 
> Before applying this patch I never saw a task eventually exit during
> the reproduction of this system state.

What has happened to the oom victim and why it has never exited?

Side note. I have noticed that you have sent v2 with minor changes. It
is usualy better to resolve review feedback before posting a new
version. Discussion gets rather hard to follow otherwise.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-07 21:49 Joel Savitz
2021-12-07 22:34 ` Joel Savitz
2021-12-07 23:47 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-08  0:46   ` Nico Pache
2021-12-08  1:58     ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-08  3:38       ` Joel Savitz
2021-12-08  9:01   ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-08 16:05     ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-09  2:59       ` Joel Savitz
2021-12-09  7:51         ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-01-14 14:39           ` Joel Savitz
2022-01-14 14:55             ` Waiman Long
2022-01-14 14:58               ` Waiman Long
2022-01-17 11:33             ` Michal Hocko

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