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x86,mm: make pagefault killable
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:11:30 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:39:08 +0000 (08:39 -0700)
commit757775a9be6b0a40ec4f62ed70ba4f63b39ca4f5
tree467e6fcd785108a21d836e1aad8fc1a68aa72e17
parentd341f3dc8d2a5938626afb9f71cb477bf086bb56
x86,mm: make pagefault killable

When an oom killing occurs, almost all processes are getting stuck at the
following two points.

1) __alloc_pages_nodemask
2) __lock_page_or_retry

1) is not very problematic because TIF_MEMDIE leads to an allocation
failure and getting out from page allocator.

2) is more problematic.  In an OOM situation, zones typically don't have
page cache at all and memory starvation might lead to greatly reduced IO
performance.  When a fork bomb occurs, TIF_MEMDIE tasks don't die quickly,
meaning that a fork bomb may create new process quickly rather than the
oom-killer killing it.  Then, the system may become livelocked.

This patch makes the pagefault interruptible by SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
include/linux/mm.h
mm/filemap.c