On Thu 12-12-13 13:11:40, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 12-12-13 11:31:59, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > The semantic would be as simple as "notification is sent only when
> > an action is due". It will be still racy as nothing prevents a task
> > which is not under OOM to exit and release some memory but there is no
> > sensible way to address that. On the other hand such a semantic would be
> > sensible for oom_control listeners because they will know that an action
> > has to be or will be taken (the line was drawn).
> >
> > Can we agree on this, Johannes? Or you see the line drawn when
> > mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize has been reached already no matter whether
> > the action is to be done or not?
>
> Something like the following:
I forgot to mention that this patch assumes "memcg: Do not hang on OOM
when killed by userspace OOM"
> From 5d9c01e2814a7ade49db7945ad3890f4f138855e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:50:17 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] memcg: notify userspace about OOM when and action is due
>
> Userspace is currently notified about OOM condition after fails
> to reclaim any memory after MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES rounds.
> This usually means that the memcg is really in troubles and an
> OOM action (either done by userspace or kernel) has to be taken.
> The kernel OOM killer however bails out and doesn't kill anything
> if it sees an already dying/exiting task in a good hope a memory
> will be released and OOM situation will be resolved.
>
> Therefore it makes sense to notify userspace only after really all
> measures have been taken and an userspace action is required or
> the kernel kills a task.
>
> This patch also removes fatal_signal_pending and PF_EXITING check from
> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize because __mem_cgroup_try_charge already
> checks for both and bypasses charge so we cannot end up in the oom path.
Hmm, I have just noticed that oom_scan_process_thread aborts scanning
only if it sees PF_EXITING or TIF_MEMDIE. Why the same is not done for
fatal_signal_pending tasks as well? Following the same logic as for the
current we should do that no?
The different sets of checks is so confusing :/
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 17 ++++-------------
> mm/oom_kill.c | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 98900c070045..af7148c77bac 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2235,16 +2235,6 @@ bool mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(bool handle)
> if (!handle)
> goto cleanup;
>
> - /*
> - * If current has a pending SIGKILL or is exiting, then automatically
> - * select it. The goal is to allow it to allocate so that it may
> - * quickly exit and free its memory.
> - */
> - if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || current->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> - set_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE);
> - goto cleanup;
> - }
> -
> owait.memcg = memcg;
> owait.wait.flags = 0;
> owait.wait.func = memcg_oom_wake_function;
> @@ -2256,15 +2246,16 @@ bool mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(bool handle)
>
> locked = mem_cgroup_oom_trylock(memcg);
>
> - if (locked)
> - mem_cgroup_oom_notify(memcg);
> -
> if (locked && !memcg->oom_kill_disable) {
> mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
> finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
> + /* calls mem_cgroup_oom_notify if there is a task to kill */
> mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, current->memcg_oom.gfp_mask,
> current->memcg_oom.order);
> } else {
> + if (locked && memcg->oom_kill_disable)
> + mem_cgroup_oom_notify(memcg);
> +
> schedule();
> mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
> finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 1e4a600a6163..47c9de8da36d 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ static void dump_header(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> dump_tasks(memcg, nodemask);
> }
>
> +extern void mem_cgroup_oom_notify(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
> +
> #define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10))
> /*
> * Must be called while holding a reference to p, which will be released upon
> @@ -470,6 +472,9 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> victim = p;
> }
>
> + if (memcg)
> + mem_cgroup_oom_notify(memcg);
> +
> /* mm cannot safely be dereferenced after task_unlock(victim) */
> mm = victim->mm;
> pr_err("Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB\n",
> --
> 1.8.4.4
>
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> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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