memcg: fix hierarchical oom locking
authorJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:59:16 +0000 (15:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:25:34 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
commit23751be0094012eb6b4756fa80ca54b3eb83069f
tree30c33d9165bb33d64bd42d6e9bc1e4cbed1c0780
parent86383b55791bd97e88ef493e33ef521ee244f3d9
memcg: fix hierarchical oom locking

Commit 79dfdaccd1d5 ("memcg: make oom_lock 0 and 1 based rather than
counter") tried to oom lock the hierarchy and roll back upon
encountering an already locked memcg.

The code is confused when it comes to detecting a locked memcg, though,
so it would fail and rollback after locking one memcg and encountering
an unlocked second one.

The result is that oom-locking hierarchies fails unconditionally and
that every oom killer invocation simply goes to sleep on the oom
waitqueue forever.  The tasks practically hang forever without anyone
intervening, possibly holding locks that trip up unrelated tasks, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c