kernel-ark/mm
David Rientjes 2b45ab3398 oom: fix constraint deadlock
Fixes a deadlock in the OOM killer for allocations that are not
__GFP_HARDWALL.

Before the OOM killer checks for the allocation constraint, it takes
callback_mutex.

constrained_alloc() iterates through each zone in the allocation zonelist
and calls cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() to determine whether an allocation
for gfp_mask is possible.  If a zone's node is not in the OOM-triggering
task's mems_allowed, it is not exiting, and we did not fail on a
__GFP_HARDWALL allocation, cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() attempts to take
callback_mutex to check the nearest exclusive ancestor of current's cpuset.
 This results in deadlock.

We now take callback_mutex after iterating through the zonelist since we
don't need it yet.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
filemap.h
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
internal.h Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Kconfig Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
madvise.c mm: madvise avoid exclusive mmap_sem 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Makefile Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mmap.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c oom: fix constraint deadlock 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: optimize compound_head() by avoiding a shared page flag 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
page_io.c
page-writeback.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
rmap.c
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c
slab.c fault injection: fix failslab with CONFIG_NUMA 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
slob.c slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
slub.c slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c