From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com, mgorman@suse.de,
oleg@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com,
andrea@kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:50:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160215205028.GE9223@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201602062222.HJH86328.SMFVtFOJFHQOLO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Sat 06-02-16 22:22:20, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > There is one notable exception to this, though, if the OOM victim was
> > in the process of coredumping the result would be incomplete. This is
> > considered a reasonable constrain because the overall system health is
> > more important than debugability of a particular application.
>
> Is it possible to clarify what "the result would be incomplete" mean?
>
> (1) The size of coredump file becomes smaller than it should be, and
> data in reaped pages is not included into the file.
>
> (2) The size of coredump file does not change, and data in reaped pages
> is included into the file as NUL byte.
AFAIU this will be the case. We are not destroying VMAs we are just
unmapping the page ranges. So what would happen is that the core dump
will contain zero pages for anonymous mappings. This might change in
future though because the oom repear might be extended to do more work
(e.g. drop associated page tables when I would expect the core dumping
could SEGV).
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-15 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-03 13:13 [PATCH 0/5] oom reaper v5 Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 23:48 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-04 6:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 13:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-15 20:50 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-02-03 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] oom reaper: handle mlocked pages Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 23:57 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-23 1:36 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-23 13:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 3:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-02-29 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 13:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 20:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-09 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed to unmap the address space Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 14:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-04 14:43 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 15:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-04 16:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-05 11:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-06 8:30 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 11:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-15 20:47 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 14:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-15 20:40 ` [PATCH 3.1/5] oom: make oom_reaper freezable Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 13:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm, oom_reaper: report success/failure Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 23:10 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-04 6:46 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 22:31 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-05 9:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 6:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 13:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, oom_reaper: implement OOM victims queuing Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 10:49 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-04 14:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 5:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-06 8:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-06 15:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-15 20:15 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-16 11:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-16 15:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 6/5] oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for Michal Hocko
2016-02-17 10:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-17 11:33 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-19 18:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-20 2:32 ` [PATCH 6/5] oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_task Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-22 9:41 ` Michal Hocko
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