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mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()
authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:32:10 +0000 (18:32 +0300)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:38:50 +0000 (09:38 -0700)
commitf52ba1fef7b92e74d58efef8eae7b6f48c6d218d
treebe3bfd5e52ea11827506db4397dcd29e9dd6a83e
parent71546d100422bcc2c543dadeb9328728997cd23a
mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()

In case of memory deficit and low percpu memory pages,
pcpu_balance_workfn() takes pcpu_alloc_mutex for a long
time (as it makes memory allocations itself and waits
for memory reclaim). If tasks doing pcpu_alloc() are
choosen by OOM killer, they can't exit, because they
are waiting for the mutex.

The patch makes pcpu_alloc() to care about killing signal
and use mutex_lock_killable(), when it's allowed by GFP
flags. This guarantees, a task does not miss SIGKILL
from OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
mm/percpu.c