From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm,oom: speed up select_bad_process() loop Since commit 3a5dda7a17cf3706 ("oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics"), select_bad_process() is using for_each_process_thread(). Since oom_unkillable_task() scans all threads in the caller's thread group and oom_task_origin() scans signal_struct of the caller's thread group, we don't need to call oom_unkillable_task() and oom_task_origin() on each thread. Also, since !mm test will be done later at oom_badness(), we don't need to do !mm test on each thread. Therefore, we only need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. Although the original code was correct it was quite inefficient because each thread group was scanned num_threads times which can be a lot especially with processes with many threads. Even though the OOM is extremely cold path it is always good to be as effective as possible when we are inside rcu_read_lock() - aka unpreemptible context. If we track number of TIF_MEMDIE threads inside signal_struct, we don't need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. This will allow select_bad_process() to use for_each_process(). This patch adds a counter to signal_struct for tracking how many TIF_MEMDIE threads are in a given thread group, and check it at oom_scan_process_thread() so that select_bad_process() can use for_each_process() rather than for_each_process_thread(). [mhocko@xxxxxxxx: do not blow the signal_struct size] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520075035.GF19172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201605182230.IDC73435.MVSOHLFOQFOJtF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + mm/oom_kill.c | 17 ++++++----------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~mmoom-speed-up-select_bad_process-loop include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~mmoom-speed-up-select_bad_process-loop +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ struct signal_struct { atomic_t sigcnt; atomic_t live; int nr_threads; + atomic_t oom_victims; /* # of TIF_MEDIE threads in this thread group */ struct list_head thread_head; wait_queue_head_t wait_chldexit; /* for wait4() */ diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-speed-up-select_bad_process-loop mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-speed-up-select_bad_process-loop +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -283,12 +283,8 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread( * This task already has access to memory reserves and is being killed. * Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves. */ - if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_MEMDIE)) { - if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc)) - return OOM_SCAN_ABORT; - } - if (!task->mm) - return OOM_SCAN_CONTINUE; + if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims)) + return OOM_SCAN_ABORT; /* * If task is allocating a lot of memory and has been marked to be @@ -307,12 +303,12 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread( static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc, unsigned int *ppoints, unsigned long totalpages) { - struct task_struct *g, *p; + struct task_struct *p; struct task_struct *chosen = NULL; unsigned long chosen_points = 0; rcu_read_lock(); - for_each_process_thread(g, p) { + for_each_process(p) { unsigned int points; switch (oom_scan_process_thread(oc, p, totalpages)) { @@ -331,9 +327,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr points = oom_badness(p, NULL, oc->nodemask, totalpages); if (!points || points < chosen_points) continue; - /* Prefer thread group leaders for display purposes */ - if (points == chosen_points && thread_group_leader(chosen)) - continue; chosen = p; chosen_points = points; @@ -673,6 +666,7 @@ void mark_oom_victim(struct task_struct /* OOM killer might race with memcg OOM */ if (test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE)) return; + atomic_inc(&tsk->signal->oom_victims); /* * Make sure that the task is woken up from uninterruptible sleep * if it is frozen because OOM killer wouldn't be able to free @@ -690,6 +684,7 @@ void exit_oom_victim(struct task_struct { if (!test_and_clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE)) return; + atomic_dec(&tsk->signal->oom_victims); if (!atomic_dec_return(&oom_victims)) wake_up_all(&oom_victims_wait); _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html