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There are several blockable mmu notifiers which might sleep in mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and that is a problem for the oom_reaper because it needs to guarantee a forward progress so it cannot depend on any sleepable locks. Currently we simply back off and mark an oom victim with blockable mmu notifiers as done after a short sleep. That can result in selecting a new oom victim prematurely because the previous one still hasn't torn its memory down yet. We can do much better though. Even if mmu notifiers use sleepable locks there is no reason to automatically assume those locks are held. Moreover majority of notifiers only care about a portion of the address space and there is absolutely zero reason to fail when we are unmapping an unrelated range. Many notifiers do really block and wait for HW which is harder to handle and we have to bail out though. This patch handles the low hanging fruit. __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start gets a blockable flag and callbacks are not allowed to sleep if the flag is set to false. This is achieved by using trylock instead of the sleepable lock for most callbacks and continue as long as we do not block down the call chain. I think we can improve that even further because there is a common pattern to do a range lookup first and then do something about that. The first part can be done without a sleeping lock in most cases AFAICS. The oom_reaper end then simply retries if there is at least one notifier which couldn't make any progress in !blockable mode. A retry loop is already implemented to wait for the mmap_sem and this is basically the same thing. The simplest way for driver developers to test this code path is to wrap userspace code which uses these notifiers into a memcg and set the hard limit to hit the oom. This can be done e.g. after the test faults in all the mmu notifier managed memory and set the hard limit to something really small. Then we are looking for a proper process tear down. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: minor code simplification] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716115058.5559-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> # AMD notifiers Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # mlx and umem_odp Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "David (ChunMing) Zhou" <David1.Zhou@amd.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Cc: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.