Re: process hangs on do_exit when oom happens

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On Mon 22-10-12 10:16:43, Qiang Gao wrote:
> I don't know whether  the process will exit finally, bug this stack lasts
> for hours, which is obviously unnormal.
> The situation:  we use a command calld "cglimit" to fork-and-exec the
> worker process,and the "cglimit" will
> set some limitation on the worker with cgroup. for now,we limit the
> memory,and we also use cpu cgroup,but with
> no limiation,so when the worker is running, the cgroup directory looks like
> following:
> 
> /cgroup/memory/worker : this directory limit the memory
> /cgroup/cpu/worker :with no limit,but worker process is in.
> 
> for some reason(some other process we didn't consider),  the worker process
> invoke global oom-killer,

Are you sure that this is really global oom? What was the limit for the
group?

> not cgroup-oom-killer.  then the worker process hangs there.
> 
> Actually, if we didn't set the worker process into the cpu cgroup, this
> will never happens.

Strange and it smells like a misconfiguration. Could you provide the
compllete setting for both controllers?
grep . -r /cgroup/

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 17-10-12 18:23:34, gaoqiang wrote:
> > > I looked up nothing useful with google,so I'm here for help..
> > >
> > > when this happens:  I use memcg to limit the memory use of a
> > > process,and when the memcg cgroup was out of memory,
> > > the process was oom-killed   however,it cannot really complete the
> > > exiting. here is the some information
> >
> > How many tasks are in the group and what kind of memory do they use?
> > Is it possible that you were hit by the same issue as described in
> > 79dfdacc memcg: make oom_lock 0 and 1 based rather than counter.
> >
> > > OS version:  centos6.2    2.6.32.220.7.1
> >
> > Your kernel is quite old and you should be probably asking your
> > distribution to help you out. There were many fixes since 2.6.32.
> > Are you able to reproduce the same issue with the current vanila kernel?
> >
> > > /proc/pid/stack
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > [<ffffffff810597ca>] __cond_resched+0x2a/0x40
> > > [<ffffffff81121569>] unmap_vmas+0xb49/0xb70
> > > [<ffffffff8112822e>] exit_mmap+0x7e/0x140
> > > [<ffffffff8105b078>] mmput+0x58/0x110
> > > [<ffffffff81061aad>] exit_mm+0x11d/0x160
> > > [<ffffffff81061c9d>] do_exit+0x1ad/0x860
> > > [<ffffffff81062391>] do_group_exit+0x41/0xb0
> > > [<ffffffff81077cd8>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1e8/0x430
> > > [<ffffffff8100a4c4>] do_notify_resume+0xf4/0x8b0
> > > [<ffffffff8100b281>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
> > > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> >
> > This looks strange because this is just an exit part which shouldn't
> > deadlock or anything. Is this stack stable? Have you tried to take check
> > it more times?
> >
> > --
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
> >

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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