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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> | 2017-07-06 15:40:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -0700 |
| commit | 8e675f7af50747e1e9e96538e8706767e4f80e2c (patch) | |
| tree | 86820a752aa265ae2c118d86415ca03eed486691 /Documentation | |
| parent | 2262185c5b287f2758afda79c149b7cf6bee165c (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e675f7af50747e1e9e96538e8706767e4f80e2c.tar.bz2 | |
mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills
Show count of oom killer invocations in /proc/vmstat and count of
processes killed in memory cgroup in knob "memory.events" (in
memory.oom_control for v1 cgroup).
Also describe difference between "oom" and "oom_kill" in memory cgroup
documentation. Currently oom in memory cgroup kills tasks iff shortage
has happened inside page fault.
These counters helps in monitoring oom kills - for now the only way is
grepping for magic words in kernel log.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() rename]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Konstantin]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149570810989.203600.9492483715840752937.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Roman Guschin <guroan@gmail.com>
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/cgroup-v2.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt index 5ac2fbde97e6..e6101976e0f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt @@ -852,13 +852,25 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. The number of times the cgroup's memory usage was about to go over the max boundary. If direct reclaim - fails to bring it down, the OOM killer is invoked. + fails to bring it down, the cgroup goes to OOM state. oom - The number of times the OOM killer has been invoked in - the cgroup. This may not exactly match the number of - processes killed but should generally be close. + The number of time the cgroup's memory usage was + reached the limit and allocation was about to fail. + + Depending on context result could be invocation of OOM + killer and retrying allocation or failing alloction. + + Failed allocation in its turn could be returned into + userspace as -ENOMEM or siletly ignored in cases like + disk readahead. For now OOM in memory cgroup kills + tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault. + + oom_kill + + The number of processes belonging to this cgroup + killed by any kind of OOM killer. memory.stat |