linux-toradex.git/mm/oom_kill.c, branch v4.12

oom: improve oom disable handling

2017-05-03T22:52:10+00:00

Tetsuo has reported that sysrq triggered OOM killer will print a
misleading information when no tasks are selected:

  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  Out of memory: Kill process 4468 ((agetty)) score 0 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 4468 ((agetty)) total-vm:43704kB, anon-rss:1760kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  Out of memory: Kill process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) score 0 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) total-vm:10704kB, anon-rss:120kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled

The real reason is that there are no eligible tasks for the OOM killer
to select but since commit 7c5f64f84483 ("mm: oom: deduplicate victim
selection code for memcg and global oom") the semantic of out_of_memory
has changed without updating moom_callback.

This patch updates moom_callback to tell that no task was eligible which
is the case for both oom killer disabled and no eligible tasks.  In
order to help distinguish first case from the second add printk to both
oom_killer_{enable,disable}.  This information is useful on its own
because it might help debugging potential memory allocation failures.

Fixes: 7c5f64f84483 ("mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404134705.6361-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

The APIs that are going to be moved first are:

   mm_alloc()
   __mmdrop()
   mmdrop()
   mmdrop_async_fn()
   mmdrop_async()
   mmget_not_zero()
   mmput()
   mmput_async()
   get_task_mm()
   mm_access()
   mm_release()

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: add new mmgrab() helper

2017-02-28T02:43:48+00:00

Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is
converted mechanically using:

  git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_count);/mmgrab\(\1\);/'
  git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_count);/mmgrab\(\&\1\);/'

This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might
be a worthwhile cleanup on its own.

(Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: header nodemask is NULL when cpusets are disabled

2017-02-25T01:46:53+00:00

Commit 82e7d3abec86 ("oom: print nodemask in the oom report") implicitly
sets the allocation nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed when there
is no effective mempolicy.  cpuset_current_mems_allowed is only
effective when cpusets are enabled, which is also printed by
dump_header(), so setting the nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed is
redundant and prevents debugging issues where ac->nodemask is not set
properly in the page allocator.

This provides better debugging output since
cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed() is already provided.

[rientjes@google.com: newline per Hillf]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701200158300.88321@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701191454470.2381@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() logic to decide if unmap the VMA

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

Logic on whether we can reap pages from the VMA should match what we
have in madvise_dontneed().  In particular, we should skip, VM_PFNMAP
VMAs, but we don't now.

Let's just extract condition on which we can shoot down pagesi from a
VMA with MADV_DONTNEED into separate function and use it in both places.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop zap_details::check_swap_entries

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

detail == NULL would give the same functionality as
.check_swap_entries==true.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

The only user of ignore_dirty is oom-reaper.  But it doesn't really use
it.

ignore_dirty only has effect on file pages mapped with dirty pte.  But
oom-repear skips shared VMAs, so there's no way we can dirty file pte in
them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

__alloc_pages_may_oom makes sure to skip the OOM killer depending on the
allocation request.  This includes lowmem requests, costly high order
requests and others.  For a long time __GFP_NOFAIL acted as an override
for all those rules.  This is not documented and it can be quite
surprising as well.  E.g.  GFP_NOFS requests are not invoking the OOM
killer but GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL does so if we try to convert some of
the existing open coded loops around allocator to nofail request (and we
have done that in the past) then such a change would have a non trivial
side effect which is far from obvious.  Note that the primary motivation
for skipping the OOM killer is to prevent from pre-mature invocation.

The exception has been added by commit 82553a937f12 ("oom: invoke oom
killer for __GFP_NOFAIL").  The changelog points out that the oom killer
has to be invoked otherwise the request would be looping for ever.  But
this argument is rather weak because the OOM killer doesn't really
guarantee a forward progress for those exceptional cases:

- it will hardly help to form costly order which in turn can result in
  the system panic because of no oom killable task in the end - I believe
  we certainly do not want to put the system down just because there is a
  nasty driver asking for order-9 page with GFP_NOFAIL not realizing all
  the consequences.  It is much better this request would loop for ever
  than the massive system disruption

- lowmem is also highly unlikely to be freed during OOM killer

- GFP_NOFS request could trigger while there is still a lot of memory
  pinned by filesystems.

This patch simply removes the __GFP_NOFAIL special case in order to have a
more clear semantic without surprising side effects.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Nils Holland 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds