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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-04-02 16:57:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-02 19:04:55 -0700 |
| commit | 0b7f569e45bb6be142d87017030669a6a7d327a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8df7877b95c093ebf4cb4e1006cea16f75fc79b7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 81d39c20f5ee2437d71709beb82597e2a38efbbc (diff) | |
memcg: fix OOM killer under memcg
This patch tries to fix OOM Killer problems caused by hierarchy.
Now, memcg itself has OOM KILL function (in oom_kill.c) and tries to
kill a task in memcg.
But, when hierarchy is used, it's broken and correct task cannot
be killed. For example, in following cgroup
/groupA/ hierarchy=1, limit=1G,
01 nolimit
02 nolimit
All tasks' memory usage under /groupA, /groupA/01, groupA/02 is limited to
groupA's 1Gbytes but OOM Killer just kills tasks in groupA.
This patch provides makes the bad process be selected from all tasks
under hierarchy. BTW, currently, oom_jiffies is updated against groupA
in above case. oom_jiffies of tree should be updated.
To see how oom_jiffies is used, please check mem_cgroup_oom_called()
callers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: const fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 523a9c16c400..8a11caf417a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. -Last Updated: 2009/1/19 +Last Updated: 2009/1/20 Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2. Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior @@ -360,3 +360,21 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. # kill malloc task. Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too. + + 9.8 OOM-Killer + Out-of-memory caused by memcg's limit will kill tasks under + the memcg. When hierarchy is used, a task under hierarchy + will be killed by the kernel. + In this case, panic_on_oom shouldn't be invoked and tasks + in other groups shouldn't be killed. + + It's not difficult to cause OOM under memcg as following. + Case A) when you can swapoff + #swapoff -a + #echo 50M > /memory.limit_in_bytes + run 51M of malloc + + Case B) when you use mem+swap limitation. + #echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes + #echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes + run 51M of malloc |