The patch titled memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was memcg-avoid-oom-killing-innocent-task-in-case-of-use_hierarchy.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy From: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> task_in_mem_cgroup(), which is called by select_bad_process() to check whether a task can be a candidate for being oom-killed from memcg's limit, checks "curr->use_hierarchy"("curr" is the mem_cgroup the task belongs to). But this check return true(it's false positive) when: <some path>/aa use_hierarchy == 0 <- hitting limit <some path>/aa/00 use_hierarchy == 1 <- the task belongs to This leads to killing an innocent task in aa/00. This patch is a fix for this bug. And this patch also fixes the arg for mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(). We should print information of mem_cgroup which the task being killed, not current, belongs to. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 10 ++++++++-- mm/oom_kill.c | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-avoid-oom-killing-innocent-task-in-case-of-use_hierarchy mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-avoid-oom-killing-innocent-task-in-case-of-use_hierarchy +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -760,7 +760,13 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struc task_unlock(task); if (!curr) return 0; - if (curr->use_hierarchy) + /* + * We should check use_hierarchy of "mem" not "curr". Because checking + * use_hierarchy of "curr" here make this function true if hierarchy is + * enabled in "curr" and "curr" is a child of "mem" in *cgroup* + * hierarchy(even if use_hierarchy is disabled in "mem"). + */ + if (mem->use_hierarchy) ret = css_is_ancestor(&curr->css, &mem->css); else ret = (curr == mem); @@ -1009,7 +1015,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct me static char memcg_name[PATH_MAX]; int ret; - if (!memcg) + if (!memcg || !p) return; diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~memcg-avoid-oom-killing-innocent-task-in-case-of-use_hierarchy mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~memcg-avoid-oom-killing-innocent-task-in-case-of-use_hierarchy +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_ } while_each_thread(g, p); } -static void dump_header(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, struct mem_cgroup *mem) +static void dump_header(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, + struct mem_cgroup *mem) { pr_warning("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x, order=%d, " "oom_adj=%d\n", @@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ static void dump_header(gfp_t gfp_mask, cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current); task_unlock(current); dump_stack(); - mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, current); + mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, p); show_mem(); if (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks) dump_tasks(mem); @@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ struct task_struct *c; if (printk_ratelimit()) - dump_header(gfp_mask, order, mem); + dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, mem); /* * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill @@ -576,7 +577,7 @@ retry: /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */ if (!p) { read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); - dump_header(gfp_mask, order, NULL); + dump_header(NULL, gfp_mask, order, NULL); panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n"); } @@ -644,7 +645,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zone return; if (sysctl_panic_on_oom == 2) { - dump_header(gfp_mask, order, NULL); + dump_header(NULL, gfp_mask, order, NULL); panic("out of memory. Compulsory panic_on_oom is selected.\n"); } @@ -663,7 +664,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zone case CONSTRAINT_NONE: if (sysctl_panic_on_oom) { - dump_header(gfp_mask, order, NULL); + dump_header(NULL, gfp_mask, order, NULL); panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n"); } /* Fall-through */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- 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