Subject: Re: oom-kill && frozen()

From: Oleg Nesterov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:15:43 +0100

On 11/13, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 	4. Finally, change try_to_wake_up() path to do
> >
> > 		-	p->state = TASK_WAKING;
> > 		+	p->state &= ~state;
> > 		+	if (p->state & ~(TASK_DEAD | TASK_WAKEKILL | TASK_PARKED))
> > 		+		return;
> > 		+	else
> > 		+		p->state = TASK_WAKING;
> >
> > 	   IOW, if the task sleeps in, say, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | __TASK_FROZEN
> > 	   then it need both try_to_wake_up(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) and
> > 	   try_to_wake_up(__TASK_FROZEN) to wake up.
>
> > Tejun, Peter, do you think this makes any sense? I am just curious, but
> > "selective wakeup" looks potentially useful.
>
> I've never looked at any of this freeze stuff, so I cannot comment too
> much. However we should be very careful not to add too much to relative
> hot paths for the relative rare case of freezing stuff.

Yes, yes, sure.

Plus my description was confusing and incomplete (and I am sure I missed
something more). I forgot to mention that freeze_task() should also add
the FROZEN state if it sees FROZEN qualifier, this needs more changes.

So please forget. May be I'll _try_ to make something working (at least
for discussion), but I am not sure.

Oleg.