On Mon 06-08-18 11:30:37, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > More interesting stuff is higher in the kernel log > > : [ 366.435015] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/ile0,task_memcg=/ile0,task=syz-executor3,pid=23766,uid=0 > > : [ 366.449416] memory: usage 112kB, limit 0kB, failcnt 1605 > > > > Are you sure you want to have hard limit set to 0? > > syzkaller really does not mind to have it. So what do you use it for? What do you actually test by this setting? [...] > > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c > > index 4603ad75c9a9..852cd3dbdcd9 100644 > > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c > > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c > > @@ -1388,6 +1388,8 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, > > bool ret; > > > > mutex_lock(&oom_lock); > > + pr_info("task=%s pid=%d invoked memcg oom killer. oom_victim=%d\n", > > + current->comm, current->pid, tsk_is_oom_victim(current)); > > ret = out_of_memory(&oc); > > mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); > > return ret; > > > > Anyway your memcg setup is indeed misconfigured. Memcg with 0 hard limit > > and basically no memory charged by existing tasks is not going to fly > > and the warning is exactly to call that out. > > > Please-please-please do not mix kernel bugs and notices to user into > the same bucket: Well, WARN_ON used to be a standard way to make user aware of a misbehavior. In this case it warns about a pottential runaway when memcg is misconfigured. I do not insist on using WARN_ON here of course. If there is a general agreement that such a condition is better handled by pr_err then I am fine with it. Users tend to be more sensitive on WARN_ONs though. Btw. running with the above diff on top might help us to ideantify whether this is a pre-mature warning or a valid one. Still useful to find out. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html