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From:   zangchunxin@bytedance.com
To:     akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] mm/vmscan: add a fatal signals check in drop_slab_node
Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:27:41 +0800
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From: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>

On our server, there are about 10k memcg in one machine. They use memory
very frequently. We have observed that drop_caches can take a
considerable amount of time, and can't stop it.

There are two reasons:
1. There is somebody constantly generating more objects to reclaim
   on drop_caches, result the 'freed' always bigger than 10.
2. The process has no chance to process signals.

We can get the following info through 'ps':

  root:~# ps -aux | grep drop
  root  357956 ... R    Aug25 21119854:55 echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  root 1771385 ... R    Aug16 21146421:17 echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Add a bail out on the fatal signals in the main loop so that the
operation can be terminated by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
---

	changelogs in v4:
	changelogs in v3: 
	1) Fix some descriptive problems pointed out by Michal Hocko.
		v2 named: mm/vmscan: fix infinite loop in drop_slab_node

	changelogs in v2: 
	1) via check fatal signal break loop.

 mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b6d84326bdf2..6b2b5d420510 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -704,6 +704,9 @@ void drop_slab_node(int nid)
 	do {
 		struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
 
+		if (signal_pending(current))
+			return;
+
 		freed = 0;
 		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
 		do {
-- 
2.11.0