arch: mm: do not invoke OOM killer on kernel fault OOM
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:13:38 +0000 (15:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:38:01 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
Kernel faults are expected to handle OOM conditions gracefully (gup,
uaccess etc.), so they should never invoke the OOM killer.  Reserve this
for faults triggered in user context when it is the only option.

Most architectures already do this, fix up the remaining few.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm/mm/fault.c
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
arch/avr32/mm/fault.c
arch/mips/mm/fault.c
arch/um/kernel/trap.c
arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c

index c97f794..217bcbf 100644 (file)
@@ -349,6 +349,13 @@ retry:
        if (likely(!(fault & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_BADMAP | VM_FAULT_BADACCESS))))
                return 0;
 
+       /*
+        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we
+        * have no context to handle this fault with.
+        */
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               goto no_context;
+
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) {
                /*
                 * We ran out of memory, call the OOM killer, and return to
@@ -359,13 +366,6 @@ retry:
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we
-        * have no context to handle this fault with.
-        */
-       if (!user_mode(regs))
-               goto no_context;
-
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
                /*
                 * We had some memory, but were unable to
index 6c8ba25..0bb7db4 100644 (file)
@@ -288,6 +288,13 @@ retry:
                              VM_FAULT_BADACCESS))))
                return 0;
 
+       /*
+        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we have no context to
+        * handle this fault with.
+        */
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               goto no_context;
+
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) {
                /*
                 * We ran out of memory, call the OOM killer, and return to
@@ -298,13 +305,6 @@ retry:
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we have no context to
-        * handle this fault with.
-        */
-       if (!user_mode(regs))
-               goto no_context;
-
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
                /*
                 * We had some memory, but were unable to successfully fix up
index b2f2d2d..2ca27b0 100644 (file)
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ no_context:
         */
 out_of_memory:
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-       pagefault_out_of_memory();
        if (!user_mode(regs))
                goto no_context;
+       pagefault_out_of_memory();
        return;
 
 do_sigbus:
index 85df1cd..94d3a31 100644 (file)
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ out_of_memory:
         * (which will retry the fault, or kill us if we got oom-killed).
         */
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               goto no_context;
        pagefault_out_of_memory();
        return;
 
index 089f398..b2f5adf 100644 (file)
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ out_of_memory:
         * (which will retry the fault, or kill us if we got oom-killed).
         */
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+       if (!is_user)
+               goto out_nosemaphore;
        pagefault_out_of_memory();
        return 0;
 }
index f9b5c10..8ed3c45 100644 (file)
@@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ retry:
               (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_BADMAP | VM_FAULT_BADACCESS))))
                return 0;
 
+       /*
+        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we
+        * have no context to handle this fault with.
+        */
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               goto no_context;
+
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) {
                /*
                 * We ran out of memory, call the OOM killer, and return to
@@ -288,13 +295,6 @@ retry:
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * If we are in kernel mode at this point, we
-        * have no context to handle this fault with.
-        */
-       if (!user_mode(regs))
-               goto no_context;
-
        if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
                /*
                 * We had some memory, but were unable to