From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm/oom_kill: convert process/thread iterators to for_each_*_rcu
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 13:04:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apqlqLeCyS94csaH@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904083001.553587-3-ye.liu@linux.dev>
On Fri 04-09-26 16:29:54, Ye Liu wrote:
> From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>
> Replace the manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs wrapping
> for_each_process()/for_each_thread() loops with for_each_process_rcu()
> and for_each_thread_rcu(), so that the RCU read-side critical section
> is scoped to the loop body.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> mm/oom_kill.c | 20 +++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 5f372f6e26fa..8dd025965810 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -94,8 +94,7 @@ static bool oom_cpuset_eligible(struct task_struct *start,
> bool ret = false;
> const nodemask_t *mask = oc->nodemask;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - for_each_thread(start, tsk) {
> + for_each_thread_rcu(start, tsk) {
> if (mask) {
> /*
> * If this is a mempolicy constrained oom, tsk's
> @@ -114,7 +113,6 @@ static bool oom_cpuset_eligible(struct task_struct *start,
> if (ret)
> break;
> }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -368,11 +366,9 @@ static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
> else {
> struct task_struct *p;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - for_each_process(p)
> + for_each_process_rcu(p)
> if (oom_evaluate_task(p, oc))
> break;
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> }
> }
>
> @@ -430,14 +426,12 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct oom_control *oc)
> struct task_struct *p;
> int i = 0;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - for_each_process(p) {
> + for_each_process_rcu(p) {
> /* Avoid potential softlockup warning */
> if ((++i & 1023) == 0)
> touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> dump_task(p, oc);
> }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> }
> }
>
> @@ -894,8 +888,7 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
> * are dying as well to make sure that a) nobody pins its mm and
> * b) the task is also reapable by the oom reaper.
> */
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - for_each_process(p) {
> + for_each_process_rcu(p) {
> if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
> continue;
> if (same_thread_group(task, p))
> @@ -904,7 +897,6 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
> if (!ret)
> break;
> }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -960,8 +952,7 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
> * That thread will now get access to memory reserves since it has a
> * pending fatal signal.
> */
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - for_each_process(p) {
> + for_each_process_rcu(p) {
> if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
> continue;
> if (same_thread_group(p, victim))
> @@ -982,7 +973,6 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
> continue;
> do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
> }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>
> if (can_oom_reap)
> queue_oom_reaper(victim);
> --
> 2.25.1
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 8:29 [PATCH 0/8] mm: introduce for_each_process_rcu and for_each_thread_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 1/8] " Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:03 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-04 16:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-09-04 21:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 23:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-09-05 7:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm/oom_kill: convert process/thread iterators to for_each_*_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:04 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2026-09-05 0:32 ` SJ Park
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm/ksm: convert process iterator to for_each_process_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:04 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-05 0:33 ` SJ Park
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/memory-failure: " Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-05 0:39 ` SJ Park
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 5/8] kernel: convert process/thread iterators to for_each_*_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:06 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-04 14:14 ` Günther Noack
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 6/8] fs: " Ye Liu
2026-09-04 9:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-09-04 9:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-04 11:06 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-04 8:29 ` [PATCH 7/8] lib: convert process iterator to for_each_process_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-04 8:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] security/landlock: convert thread iterator to for_each_thread_rcu Ye Liu
2026-09-04 12:21 ` Justin Suess
2026-09-04 14:17 ` Günther Noack
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