-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Fixes a deadlock in the OOM killer for allocations that are not
__GFP_HARDWALL.
Before the OOM killer checks for the allocation constraint, it takes
callback_mutex.
constrained_alloc() iterates through each zone in the allocation zonelist
and calls cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() to determine whether an allocation
for gfp_mask is possible. If a zone's node is not in the OOM-triggering
task's mems_allowed, it is not exiting, and we did not fail on a
__GFP_HARDWALL allocation, cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() attempts to take
callback_mutex to check the nearest exclusive ancestor of current's cpuset.
This results in deadlock.
We now take callback_mutex after iterating through the zonelist since we
don't need it yet.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.1/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zone
struct task_struct *p;
unsigned long points = 0;
unsigned long freed = 0;
+ int constraint;
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
if (freed > 0)
@@ -411,14 +412,15 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zone
show_mem();
}
- cpuset_lock();
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-
/*
* Check if there were limitations on the allocation (only relevant for
* NUMA) that may require different handling.
*/
- switch (constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
+ constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask);
+ cpuset_lock();
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+ switch (constraint) {
case CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY:
oom_kill_process(current, points,
"No available memory (MPOL_BIND)");
--
-
