oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem
task_will_free_mem is a misnomer for a more complex PF_EXITING test for early break out from the oom killer because it is believed that such a task would release its memory shortly and so we do not have to select an oom victim and perform a disruptive action. Currently we make sure that the given task is not participating in the core dumping because it might get blocked for a long time - see commit d003f371 ("oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soon"). The check can still do better though. We shouldn't consider the task unless the whole thread group is going down. This is rather unlikely but not impossible. A single exiting thread would surely leave all the address space behind. If we are really unlucky it might get stuck on the exit path and keep its TIF_MEMDIE and so block the oom killer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460452756-15491-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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