Re: process hangs on do_exit when oom happens

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 24-10-12 11:44:17, Qiang Gao wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Tue 23-10-12 18:10:33, Qiang Gao wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> > On Tue 23-10-12 15:18:48, Qiang Gao wrote:
>> >>> >> This process was moved to RT-priority queue when global oom-killer
>> >>> >> happened to boost the recovery of the system..
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Who did that? oom killer doesn't boost the priority (scheduling class)
>> >>> > AFAIK.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> but it wasn't get properily dealt with. I still have no idea why where
>> >>> >> the problem is ..
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Well your configuration says that there is no runtime reserved for the
>> >>> > group.
>> >>> > Please refer to Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more
>> >>> > information.
>> >>> >
>> >> [...]
>> >>> maybe this is not a upstream-kernel bug. the centos/redhat kernel
>> >>> would boost the process to RT prio when the process was selected
>> >>> by oom-killer.
>> >>
>> >> This still looks like your cpu controller is misconfigured. Even if the
>> >> task is promoted to be realtime.
>> >
>> >
>> > Precisely! You need to have rt bandwidth enabled for RT tasks to run,
>> > as a workaround please give the groups some RT bandwidth and then work
>> > out the migration to RT and what should be the defaults on the distro.
>> >
>> > Balbir
>>
>>
>> see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/719411/
>
> The patch surely "fixes" your problem but the primary fault here is the
> mis-configured cpu cgroup. If the value for the bandwidth is zero by
> default then all realtime processes in the group a screwed. The value
> should be set to something more reasonable.
> I am not familiar with the cpu controller but it seems that
> alloc_rt_sched_group needs some treat. Care to look into it and send a
> patch to the cpu controller and cgroup maintainers, please?
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

I'm trying to fix the problem. but no substantive progress yet.

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