mm: oom_kill: generalize OOM progress waitqueue
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:57:13 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:49:43 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
commitc38f1025f2910d6183e9923d4b4d5804474b50c5
tree9aeb20c4677b010850267890b7bfc3dd3d575d73
parent464027785ff633468ecbb683ede14672d514b3d3
mm: oom_kill: generalize OOM progress waitqueue

It turns out that the mechanism to wait for exiting OOM victims is less
generic than it looks: it won't issue wakeups unless the OOM killer is
disabled.

The reason this check was added was the thought that, since only the OOM
disabling code would wait on this queue, wakeup operations could be
saved when that specific consumer is known to be absent.

However, this is quite the handgrenade.  Later attempts to reuse the
waitqueue for other purposes will lead to completely unexpected bugs and
the failure mode will appear seemingly illogical.  Generally, providers
shouldn't make unnecessary assumptions about consumers.

This could have been replaced with waitqueue_active(), but it only saves
a few instructions in one of the coldest paths in the kernel.  Simply
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c