From 49550b605587924b3336386caae53200c68969d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:26:12 -0800 Subject: oom: add helpers for setting and clearing TIF_MEMDIE This patchset addresses a race which was described in the changelog for 5695be142e20 ("OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend"): : PM freezer relies on having all tasks frozen by the time devices are : getting frozen so that no task will touch them while they are getting : frozen. But OOM killer is allowed to kill an already frozen task in order : to handle OOM situtation. In order to protect from late wake ups OOM : killer is disabled after all tasks are frozen. This, however, still keeps : a window open when a killed task didn't manage to die by the time : freeze_processes finishes. The original patch hasn't closed the race window completely because that would require a more complex solution as it can be seen by this patchset. The primary motivation was to close the race condition between OOM killer and PM freezer _completely_. As Tejun pointed out, even though the race condition is unlikely the harder it would be to debug weird bugs deep in the PM freezer when the debugging options are reduced considerably. I can only speculate what might happen when a task is still runnable unexpectedly. On a plus side and as a side effect the oom enable/disable has a better (full barrier) semantic without polluting hot paths. I have tested the series in KVM with 100M RAM: - many small tasks (20M anon mmap) which are triggering OOM continually - s2ram which resumes automatically is triggered in a loop echo processors > /sys/power/pm_test while true do echo mem > /sys/power/state sleep 1s done - simple module which allocates and frees 20M in 8K chunks. If it sees freezing(current) then it tries another round of allocation before calling try_to_freeze - debugging messages of PM stages and OOM killer enable/disable/fail added and unmark_oom_victim is delayed by 1s after it clears TIF_MEMDIE and before it wakes up waiters. - rebased on top of the current mmotm which means some necessary updates in mm/oom_kill.c. mark_tsk_oom_victim is now called under task_lock but I think this should be OK because __thaw_task shouldn't interfere with any locking down wake_up_process. Oleg? As expected there are no OOM killed tasks after oom is disabled and allocations requested by the kernel thread are failing after all the tasks are frozen and OOM disabled. I wasn't able to catch a race where oom_killer_disable would really have to wait but I kinda expected the race is really unlikely. [ 242.609330] Killed process 2992 (mem_eater) total-vm:24412kB, anon-rss:2164kB, file-rss:4kB [ 243.628071] Unmarking 2992 OOM victim. oom_victims: 1 [ 243.636072] (elapsed 2.837 seconds) done. [ 243.641985] Trying to disable OOM killer [ 243.643032] Waiting for concurent OOM victims [ 243.644342] OOM killer disabled [ 243.645447] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.005 seconds) done. [ 243.652983] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug) [ 243.903299] kmem_eater: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x204010 [...] [ 243.992600] PM: suspend of devices complete after 336.667 msecs [ 243.993264] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 0.660 msecs [ 243.994713] PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 1.446 msecs [ 243.994717] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3 [ 243.994795] PM: Saving platform NVS memory [ 243.994796] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... The first 2 patches are simple cleanups for OOM. They should go in regardless the rest IMO. Patches 3 and 4 are trivial printk -> pr_info conversion and they should go in ditto. The main patch is the last one and I would appreciate acks from Tejun and Rafael. I think the OOM part should be OK (except for __thaw_task vs. task_lock where a look from Oleg would appreciated) but I am not so sure I haven't screwed anything in the freezer code. I have found several surprises there. This patch (of 5): This patch is just a preparatory and it doesn't introduce any functional change. Note: I am utterly unhappy about lowmemory killer abusing TIF_MEMDIE just to wait for the oom victim and to prevent from new killing. This is just a side effect of the flag. The primary meaning is to give the oom victim access to the memory reserves and that shouldn't be necessary here. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Cong Wang Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 6806c55475ee..02b3d1ab2ec0 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) task_unlock(tsk); mm_update_next_owner(mm); mmput(mm); - clear_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE); + unmark_oom_victim(); } static struct task_struct *find_alive_thread(struct task_struct *p) -- cgit v1.2.3 From c32b3cbe0d067a9cfae85aa70ba1e97ceba0ced7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:26:24 -0800 Subject: oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path raceless Commit 5695be142e20 ("OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend") has left a race window when OOM killer manages to note_oom_kill after freeze_processes checks the counter. The race window is quite small and really unlikely and partial solution deemed sufficient at the time of submission. Tejun wasn't happy about this partial solution though and insisted on a full solution. That requires the full OOM and freezer's task freezing exclusion, though. This is done by this patch which introduces oom_sem RW lock and turns oom_killer_disable() into a full OOM barrier. oom_killer_disabled check is moved from the allocation path to the OOM level and we take oom_sem for reading for both the check and the whole OOM invocation. oom_killer_disable() takes oom_sem for writing so it waits for all currently running OOM killer invocations. Then it disable all the further OOMs by setting oom_killer_disabled and checks for any oom victims. Victims are counted via mark_tsk_oom_victim resp. unmark_oom_victim. The last victim wakes up all waiters enqueued by oom_killer_disable(). Therefore this function acts as the full OOM barrier. The page fault path is covered now as well although it was assumed to be safe before. As per Tejun, "We used to have freezing points deep in file system code which may be reacheable from page fault." so it would be better and more robust to not rely on freezing points here. Same applies to the memcg OOM killer. out_of_memory tells the caller whether the OOM was allowed to trigger and the callers are supposed to handle the situation. The page allocation path simply fails the allocation same as before. The page fault path will retry the fault (more on that later) and Sysrq OOM trigger will simply complain to the log. Normally there wouldn't be any unfrozen user tasks after try_to_freeze_tasks so the function will not block. But if there was an OOM killer racing with try_to_freeze_tasks and the OOM victim didn't finish yet then we have to wait for it. This should complete in a finite time, though, because - the victim cannot loop in the page fault handler (it would die on the way out from the exception) - it cannot loop in the page allocator because all the further allocation would fail and __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are not acceptable at this stage - it shouldn't be blocked on any locks held by frozen tasks (try_to_freeze expects lockless context) and kernel threads and work queues are not frozen yet Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Suggested-by: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Cong Wang Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 02b3d1ab2ec0..feff10bbb307 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -435,7 +435,8 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) task_unlock(tsk); mm_update_next_owner(mm); mmput(mm); - unmark_oom_victim(); + if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)) + unmark_oom_victim(); } static struct task_struct *find_alive_thread(struct task_struct *p) -- cgit v1.2.3