ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs
Just as the swapoff system call allocates many pages of RAM to various
processes, perhaps triggering OOM, so "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run"
(unmerge) is liable to allocate many pages of RAM to various processes,
perhaps triggering OOM; and each is normally run from a modest admin
process (swapoff or shell), easily repeated until it succeeds.
So treat unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() in the same way that we treat
try_to_unuse(): generalize PF_SWAPOFF to PF_OOM_ORIGIN, and bracket both
with that, to ask the OOM killer to kill them first, to prevent them from
spawning more and more OOM kills.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index e11e7a5..37cc373 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,9 @@
if (ksm_run != flags) {
ksm_run = flags;
if (flags & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE) {
+ current->flags |= PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
err = unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items();
+ current->flags &= ~PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
if (err) {
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
count = err;
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index a7b2460..da4c342 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
/*
* swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
*/
- if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
+ if (p->flags & PF_OOM_ORIGIN)
return ULONG_MAX;
/*
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 74f1102..f1bf19d 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1575,9 +1575,9 @@
p->flags &= ~SWP_WRITEOK;
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
- current->flags |= PF_SWAPOFF;
+ current->flags |= PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
err = try_to_unuse(type);
- current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPOFF;
+ current->flags &= ~PF_OOM_ORIGIN;
if (err) {
/* re-insert swap space back into swap_list */