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Kirill Tkhai committed f52ba1fef7b
mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn() In case of memory deficit and low percpu memory pages, pcpu_balance_workfn() takes pcpu_alloc_mutex for a long time (as it makes memory allocations itself and waits for memory reclaim). If tasks doing pcpu_alloc() are choosen by OOM killer, they can't exit, because they are waiting for the mutex. The patch makes pcpu_alloc() to care about killing signal and use mutex_lock_killable(), when it's allowed by GFP flags. This guarantees, a task does not miss SIGKILL from OOM killer. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>