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  1. 23 Mar, 2011 3 commits
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics · 3a5dda7a
      David Rientjes authored 
      This patch prevents unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics by reverting
two commits:

	495789a5 (oom: make oom_score to per-process value)
	cef1d352 (oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock)

First, 495789a5 (oom: make oom_score to per-process value) ignores the
fact that all threads in a thread group do not necessarily exit at the
same time.

It is imperative that select_bad_process() detect threads that are in the
exit path, specifically those with PF_EXITING set, to prevent needlessly
killing additional tasks.  If a process is oom killed and the thread group
leader exits, select_bad_process() cannot detect the other threads that
are PF_EXITING by iterating over only processes.  Thus, it currently
chooses another task unnecessarily for oom kill or panics the machine when
nothing else is eligible.

By iterating over threads instead, it is possible to detect threads that
are exiting and nominate them for oom kill so they get access to memory
reserves.

Second, cef1d352 (oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make
deadlock) erroneously avoids making the oom killer a no-op when an
eligible thread other than current isfound to be exiting.  We want to
detect this situation so that we may allow that exiting thread time to
exit and free its memory; if it is able to exit on its own, that should
free memory so current is no loner oom.  If it is not able to exit on its
own, the oom killer will nominate it for oom kill which, in this case,
only means it will get access to memory reserves.

Without this change, it is easy for the oom killer to unnecessarily target
tasks when all threads of a victim don't exit before the thread group
leader or, in the worst case, panic the machine.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3a5dda7a
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: swap: unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles · 52c50567
      Mel Gorman authored 
      If an administrator tries to swapon a file backed by NFS, the inode mutex is
taken (as it is for any swapfile) but later identified to be a bad swapfile
due to the lack of bmap and tries to cleanup. During cleanup, an attempt is
made to close the file but with inode->i_mutex still held. Closing an NFS
file syncs it which tries to acquire the inode mutex leading to deadlock. If
lockdep is enabled the following appears on the console;

    =============================================
    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1
    ---------------------------------------------
    swapon/2192 is trying to acquire lock:
     (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c

    but task is already holding lock:
     (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7

    other info that might help us debug this:
    1 lock held by swapon/2192:
     #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7

    stack backtrace:
    Pid: 2192, comm: swapon Not tainted 2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1
    Call Trace:
        __lock_acquire+0x2eb/0x1623
        find_get_pages_tag+0x14a/0x174
        pagevec_lookup_tag+0x25/0x2e
        vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
        lock_acquire+0xd3/0x100
        vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
        nfs_flush_one+0x0/0xdf [nfs]
        mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x2b1
        vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
        vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
        vfs_fsync+0x1c/0x1e
        nfs_file_flush+0x64/0x69 [nfs]
        filp_close+0x43/0x72
        sys_swapon+0xa39/0xae7
        sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
        system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This patch releases the mutex if its held before calling filep_close()
so swapon fails as expected without deadlock when the swapfile is backed
by NFS.  If accepted for 2.6.39, it should also be considered a -stable
candidate for 2.6.38 and 2.6.37.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      52c50567
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      include/asm-generic/unistd.h: fix syncfs syscall number · c7a1fcd8
      Andrew Morton authored 
      syncfs() is duplicating name_to_handle_at() due to a merging mistake.

Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c7a1fcd8
  3. 22 Mar, 2011 37 commits
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