Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 23-08-11 11:31:01, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> All frozen tasks are unkillable, and if one of them has TIF_MEMDIE
> we must kill something else to avoid deadlock.

This is a livelock rather than a deadlock, isn't it? We are picking the
same process all the time and cannot do any progress.

> After this patch select_bad_process() will skip frozen task before
> checking TIF_MEMDIE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Anyway the patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 626303b..931ab20 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static bool oom_unkillable_task(struct task_struct *p,
>  		return true;
>  	if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
>  		return true;
> +	if (p->flags & PF_FROZEN)
> +		return true;
>  
>  	/* When mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() and p is not member of the group */
>  	if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
> 
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