The patch titled Subject: memcg: refactor mem_cgroup_oom has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-refactor-mem_cgroup_oom.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-refactor-mem_cgroup_oom.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-refactor-mem_cgroup_oom.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: refactor mem_cgroup_oom Patch series "memcg: robust enforcement of memory.high", v2. Due to the semantics of memory.high enforcement i.e. throttle the workload without oom-kill, we are trying to use it for right sizing the workloads in our production environment. However we observed the mechanism fails for some specific applications which does big chunck of allocations in a single syscall. The reason behind this failure is due to the limitation of the memory.high enforcement's current implementation. This patch series solves this issue by enforcing the memory.high synchronously if the current process has accumulated a large amount of high overcharge. This patch (of 4): The function mem_cgroup_oom returns enum which has four possible values but the caller does not care about such values and only cares if the return value is OOM_SUCCESS or not. So, remove the enum altogether and make mem_cgroup_oom returns a simple bool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220211064917.2028469-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220211064917.2028469-2-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-refactor-mem_cgroup_oom +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1796,20 +1796,16 @@ static void memcg_oom_recover(struct mem __wake_up(&memcg_oom_waitq, TASK_NORMAL, 0, memcg); } -enum oom_status { - OOM_SUCCESS, - OOM_FAILED, - OOM_ASYNC, - OOM_SKIPPED -}; - -static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order) +/* + * Returns true if successfully killed one or more processes. Though in some + * corner cases it can return true even without killing any process. + */ +static bool mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order) { - enum oom_status ret; - bool locked; + bool locked, ret; if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) - return OOM_SKIPPED; + return false; memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_OOM); @@ -1832,14 +1828,13 @@ static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(st * victim and then we have to bail out from the charge path. */ if (memcg->oom_kill_disable) { - if (!current->in_user_fault) - return OOM_SKIPPED; - css_get(&memcg->css); - current->memcg_in_oom = memcg; - current->memcg_oom_gfp_mask = mask; - current->memcg_oom_order = order; - - return OOM_ASYNC; + if (current->in_user_fault) { + css_get(&memcg->css); + current->memcg_in_oom = memcg; + current->memcg_oom_gfp_mask = mask; + current->memcg_oom_order = order; + } + return false; } mem_cgroup_mark_under_oom(memcg); @@ -1850,10 +1845,7 @@ static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(st mem_cgroup_oom_notify(memcg); mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg); - if (mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, mask, order)) - ret = OOM_SUCCESS; - else - ret = OOM_FAILED; + ret = mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, mask, order); if (locked) mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(memcg); @@ -2546,7 +2538,6 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_c int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit; struct page_counter *counter; - enum oom_status oom_status; unsigned long nr_reclaimed; bool passed_oom = false; bool may_swap = true; @@ -2649,9 +2640,8 @@ retry: * a forward progress or bypass the charge if the oom killer * couldn't make any progress. */ - oom_status = mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, - get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE)); - if (oom_status == OOM_SUCCESS) { + if (mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, + get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE))) { passed_oom = true; nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; goto retry; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx are memcg-replace-in_interrupt-with-in_task.patch memcg-refactor-mem_cgroup_oom.patch memcg-unify-force-charging-conditions.patch selftests-memcg-test-high-limit-for-single-entry-allocation.patch memcg-synchronously-enforce-memoryhigh-for-large-overcharges.patch