linux-toradex.git/mm/oom_kill.c, branch v3.12.6

mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully

2013-10-17T04:35:53+00:00

Commit 3812c8c8f395 ("mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full
callstack on OOM") assumed that only a few places that can trigger a
memcg OOM situation do not return VM_FAULT_OOM, like optional page cache
readahead.  But there are many more and it's impractical to annotate
them all.

First of all, we don't want to invoke the OOM killer when the failed
allocation is gracefully handled, so defer the actual kill to the end of
the fault handling as well.  This simplifies the code quite a bit for
added bonus.

Second, since a failed allocation might not be the abrupt end of the
fault, the memcg OOM handler needs to be re-entrant until the fault
finishes for subsequent allocation attempts.  If an allocation is
attempted after the task already OOMed, allow it to bypass the limit so
that it can quickly finish the fault and invoke the OOM killer.

Reported-by: azurIt 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM

2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00

The memcg OOM handling is incredibly fragile and can deadlock.  When a
task fails to charge memory, it invokes the OOM killer and loops right
there in the charge code until it succeeds.  Comparably, any other task
that enters the charge path at this point will go to a waitqueue right
then and there and sleep until the OOM situation is resolved.  The problem
is that these tasks may hold filesystem locks and the mmap_sem; locks that
the selected OOM victim may need to exit.

For example, in one reported case, the task invoking the OOM killer was
about to charge a page cache page during a write(), which holds the
i_mutex.  The OOM killer selected a task that was just entering truncate()
and trying to acquire the i_mutex:

OOM invoking task:
  mem_cgroup_handle_oom+0x241/0x3b0
  mem_cgroup_cache_charge+0xbe/0xe0
  add_to_page_cache_locked+0x4c/0x140
  add_to_page_cache_lru+0x22/0x50
  grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x8b/0xe0
  ext3_write_begin+0x88/0x270
  generic_file_buffered_write+0x116/0x290
  __generic_file_aio_write+0x27c/0x480
  generic_file_aio_write+0x76/0xf0           # takes ->i_mutex
  do_sync_write+0xea/0x130
  vfs_write+0xf3/0x1f0
  sys_write+0x51/0x90
  system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d

OOM kill victim:
  do_truncate+0x58/0xa0              # takes i_mutex
  do_last+0x250/0xa30
  path_openat+0xd7/0x440
  do_filp_open+0x49/0xa0
  do_sys_open+0x106/0x240
  sys_open+0x20/0x30
  system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d

The OOM handling task will retry the charge indefinitely while the OOM
killed task is not releasing any resources.

A similar scenario can happen when the kernel OOM killer for a memcg is
disabled and a userspace task is in charge of resolving OOM situations.
In this case, ALL tasks that enter the OOM path will be made to sleep on
the OOM waitqueue and wait for userspace to free resources or increase
the group's limit.  But a userspace OOM handler is prone to deadlock
itself on the locks held by the waiting tasks.  For example one of the
sleeping tasks may be stuck in a brk() call with the mmap_sem held for
writing but the userspace handler, in order to pick an optimal victim,
may need to read files from /proc/, which tries to acquire the same
mmap_sem for reading and deadlocks.

This patch changes the way tasks behave after detecting a memcg OOM and
makes sure nobody loops or sleeps with locks held:

1. When OOMing in a user fault, invoke the OOM killer and restart the
   fault instead of looping on the charge attempt.  This way, the OOM
   victim can not get stuck on locks the looping task may hold.

2. When OOMing in a user fault but somebody else is handling it
   (either the kernel OOM killer or a userspace handler), don't go to
   sleep in the charge context.  Instead, remember the OOMing memcg in
   the task struct and then fully unwind the page fault stack with
   -ENOMEM.  pagefault_out_of_memory() will then call back into the
   memcg code to check if the -ENOMEM came from the memcg, and then
   either put the task to sleep on the memcg's OOM waitqueue or just
   restart the fault.  The OOM victim can no longer get stuck on any
   lock a sleeping task may hold.

Debugged by Michal Hocko.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reported-by: azurIt 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR().

2013-07-15T01:55:05+00:00

The normal expectation for ERR_PTR() is to put a negative errno into a
pointer.  oom_kill puts the magic -1 in the result (and has since
pre-git), which is probably clearer with an explicit cast.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while memcg oom happening

2013-02-24T01:50:08+00:00

Currently when a memcg oom is happening the oom dump messages is still
global state and provides few useful info for users.  This patch prints
more pointed memcg page statistics for memcg-oom and take hierarchy into
consideration:

Based on Michal's advice, we take hierarchy into consideration: supppose
we trigger an OOM on A's limit

        root_memcg
            |
            A (use_hierachy=1)
           / \
          B   C
          |
          D
then the printed info will be:

  Memory cgroup stats for /A:...
  Memory cgroup stats for /A/B:...
  Memory cgroup stats for /A/C:...
  Memory cgroup stats for /A/B/D:...

Following are samples of oom output:

(1) Before change:

    mal-80 invoked oom-killer:gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
    mal-80 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
    Pid: 2976, comm: mal-80 Not tainted 3.7.0+ #10
    Call Trace:
     [] dump_header+0x83/0x1ca
     ..... (call trace)
     [] page_fault+0x28/0x30
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< memcg specific information
    Task in /A/B/D killed as a result of limit of /A
    memory: usage 101376kB, limit 101376kB, failcnt 57
    memory+swap: usage 101376kB, limit 101376kB, failcnt 0
    kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print per cpu pageset stat
    Mem-Info:
    Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
    CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
    ......
    CPU    3: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
    Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
    CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 173
    ......
    CPU    3: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 130
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print global page state
    active_anon:92963 inactive_anon:40777 isolated_anon:0
     active_file:33027 inactive_file:51718 isolated_file:0
     unevictable:0 dirty:3 writeback:0 unstable:0
     free:729995 slab_reclaimable:6897 slab_unreclaimable:6263
     mapped:20278 shmem:35971 pagetables:5885 bounce:0
     free_cma:0
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print per zone page state
    Node 0 DMA free:15836kB ... all_unreclaimable? no
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3175 3899 3899
    Node 0 DMA32 free:2888564kB ... all_unrelaimable? no
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 724 724
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
    Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB (U) ... 3*4096kB (M) = 15836kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 41*4kB (UM) ... 702*4096kB (MR) = 2888316kB
    120710 total pagecache pages
    0 pages in swap cache
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print global swap cache stat
    Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
    Free swap  = 499708kB
    Total swap = 499708kB
    1040368 pages RAM
    58678 pages reserved
    169065 pages shared
    173632 pages non-shared
    [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
    [ 2693]     0  2693     6005     1324      17        0             0 god
    [ 2754]     0  2754     6003     1320      16        0             0 god
    [ 2811]     0  2811     5992     1304      18        0             0 god
    [ 2874]     0  2874     6005     1323      18        0             0 god
    [ 2935]     0  2935     8720     7742      21        0             0 mal-30
    [ 2976]     0  2976    21520    17577      42        0             0 mal-80
    Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 2976 (mal-80) score 665 or sacrifice child
    Killed process 2976 (mal-80) total-vm:86080kB, anon-rss:69964kB, file-rss:344kB

We can see that messages dumped by show_free_areas() are longsome and can
provide so limited info for memcg that just happen oom.

(2) After change
    mal-80 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
    mal-80 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
    Pid: 2704, comm: mal-80 Not tainted 3.7.0+ #10
    Call Trace:
     [] dump_header+0x83/0x1d1
     .......(call trace)
     [] page_fault+0x28/0x30
    Task in /A/B/D killed as a result of limit of /A
                             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< memcg specific information
    memory: usage 102400kB, limit 102400kB, failcnt 140
    memory+swap: usage 102400kB, limit 102400kB, failcnt 0
    kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0
    Memory cgroup stats for /A: cache:32KB rss:30984KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:6912KB active_anon:24072KB inactive_file:32KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
    Memory cgroup stats for /A/B: cache:0KB rss:0KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
    Memory cgroup stats for /A/C: cache:0KB rss:0KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
    Memory cgroup stats for /A/B/D: cache:32KB rss:71352KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:6656KB active_anon:64696KB inactive_file:16KB active_file:16KB unevictable:0KB
    [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
    [ 2260]     0  2260     6006     1325      18        0             0 god
    [ 2383]     0  2383     6003     1319      17        0             0 god
    [ 2503]     0  2503     6004     1321      18        0             0 god
    [ 2622]     0  2622     6004     1321      16        0             0 god
    [ 2695]     0  2695     8720     7741      22        0             0 mal-30
    [ 2704]     0  2704    21520    17839      43        0             0 mal-80
    Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 2704 (mal-80) score 669 or sacrifice child
    Killed process 2704 (mal-80) total-vm:86080kB, anon-rss:71016kB, file-rss:340kB

This version provides more pointed info for memcg in "Memory cgroup stats
for XXX" section.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler

2012-12-13T01:38:34+00:00

out_of_memory() will already cause current to schedule if it has not been
killed, so doing it again in pagefault_out_of_memory() is redundant.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: cleanup pagefault oom handler

2012-12-13T01:38:34+00:00

To lock the entire system from parallel oom killing, it's possible to pass
in a zonelist with all zones rather than using for_each_populated_zone()
for the iteration.  This obsoletes try_set_system_oom() and
clear_system_oom() so that they can be removed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY

2012-12-13T01:38:32+00:00

N_HIGH_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has normal or high memory.
N_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has any memory.

The code here need to handle with the nodes which have memory, we should
use N_MEMORY instead.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Lin Feng 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin

2012-12-12T01:22:27+00:00

test_set_oom_score_adj() and compare_swap_oom_score_adj() are used to
specify that current should be killed first if an oom condition occurs in
between the two calls.

The usage is

	short oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX);
	...
	compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj);

to store the thread's oom_score_adj, temporarily change it to the maximum
score possible, and then restore the old value if it is still the same.

This happens to still be racy, however, if the user writes
OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX to /proc/pid/oom_score_adj in between the two calls.
The compare_swap_oom_score_adj() will then incorrectly reset the old value
prior to the write of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX.

To fix this, introduce a new oom_flags_t member in struct signal_struct
that will be used for per-thread oom killer flags.  KSM and swapoff can
now use a bit in this member to specify that threads should be killed
first in oom conditions without playing around with oom_score_adj.

This also allows the correct oom_score_adj to always be shown when reading
/proc/pid/oom_score.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Anton Vorontsov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short

2012-12-12T01:22:27+00:00

The maximum oom_score_adj is 1000 and the minimum oom_score_adj is -1000,
so this range can be represented by the signed short type with no
functional change.  The extra space this frees up in struct signal_struct
will be used for per-thread oom kill flags in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Anton Vorontsov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: allow exiting threads to have access to memory reserves

2012-12-12T01:22:24+00:00

Exiting threads, those with PF_EXITING set, can pagefault and require
memory before they can make forward progress.  This happens, for instance,
when a process must fault task->robust_list, a userspace structure, before
detaching its memory.

These threads also aren't guaranteed to get access to memory reserves
unless oom killed or killed from userspace.  The oom killer won't grant
memory reserves if other threads are also exiting other than current and
stalling at the same point.  This prevents needlessly killing processes
when others are already exiting.

Instead of special casing all the possible situations between PF_EXITING
getting set and a thread detaching its mm where it may allocate memory,
which probably wouldn't get updated when a change is made to the exit
path, the solution is to give all exiting threads access to memory
reserves if they call the oom killer.  This allows them to quickly
allocate, detach its mm, and free the memory it represents.

Summary of Luigi's bug report:

: He had an oom condition where threads were faulting on task->robust_list
: and repeatedly called the oom killer but it would defer killing a thread
: because it saw other PF_EXITING threads.  This can happen anytime we need
: to allocate memory after setting PF_EXITING and before detaching our mm;
: if there are other threads in the same state then the oom killer won't do
: anything unless one of them happens to be killed from userspace.
:
: So instead of only deferring for PF_EXITING and !task->robust_list, it's
: better to just give them access to memory reserves to prevent a potential
: livelock so that any other faults that may be introduced in the future in
: the exit path don't cause the same problem (and hopefully we don't allow
: too many of those!).

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Tested-by: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds