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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2013-09-12 15:13:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 15:38:02 -0700
commit3812c8c8f3953921ef18544110dafc3505c1ac62 (patch)
tree8e5efc15fec4700644774df5fb5302f5c82f4a31 /mm
parentfb2a6fc56be66c169f8b80e07ed999ba453a2db2 (diff)
downloadlinux-3812c8c8f3953921ef18544110dafc3505c1ac62.tar.bz2
mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM
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/<pid>, 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 <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c154
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c3
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c7
3 files changed, 115 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 04250cbf46c6..4b5cfb509270 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
bool oom_lock;
atomic_t under_oom;
+ atomic_t oom_wakeups;
int swappiness;
/* OOM-Killer disable */
@@ -2020,6 +2021,7 @@ static int memcg_oom_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait,
static void memcg_wakeup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
+ atomic_inc(&memcg->oom_wakeups);
/* for filtering, pass "memcg" as argument. */
__wake_up(&memcg_oom_waitq, TASK_NORMAL, 0, memcg);
}
@@ -2031,19 +2033,17 @@ static void memcg_oom_recover(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
}
/*
- * try to call OOM killer. returns false if we should exit memory-reclaim loop.
+ * try to call OOM killer
*/
-static bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask,
- int order)
+static void mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order)
{
- struct oom_wait_info owait;
bool locked;
+ int wakeups;
- owait.memcg = memcg;
- owait.wait.flags = 0;
- owait.wait.func = memcg_oom_wake_function;
- owait.wait.private = current;
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&owait.wait.task_list);
+ if (!current->memcg_oom.may_oom)
+ return;
+
+ current->memcg_oom.in_memcg_oom = 1;
/*
* As with any blocking lock, a contender needs to start
@@ -2051,12 +2051,8 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask,
* otherwise it can miss the wakeup from the unlock and sleep
* indefinitely. This is just open-coded because our locking
* is so particular to memcg hierarchies.
- *
- * Even if signal_pending(), we can't quit charge() loop without
- * accounting. So, UNINTERRUPTIBLE is appropriate. But SIGKILL
- * under OOM is always welcomed, use TASK_KILLABLE here.
*/
- prepare_to_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ wakeups = atomic_read(&memcg->oom_wakeups);
mem_cgroup_mark_under_oom(memcg);
locked = mem_cgroup_oom_trylock(memcg);
@@ -2066,15 +2062,95 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask,
if (locked && !memcg->oom_kill_disable) {
mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
- finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, mask, order);
+ mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(memcg);
+ /*
+ * There is no guarantee that an OOM-lock contender
+ * sees the wakeups triggered by the OOM kill
+ * uncharges. Wake any sleepers explicitely.
+ */
+ memcg_oom_recover(memcg);
} else {
- schedule();
- mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
- finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
+ /*
+ * A system call can just return -ENOMEM, but if this
+ * is a page fault and somebody else is handling the
+ * OOM already, we need to sleep on the OOM waitqueue
+ * for this memcg until the situation is resolved.
+ * Which can take some time because it might be
+ * handled by a userspace task.
+ *
+ * However, this is the charge context, which means
+ * that we may sit on a large call stack and hold
+ * various filesystem locks, the mmap_sem etc. and we
+ * don't want the OOM handler to deadlock on them
+ * while we sit here and wait. Store the current OOM
+ * context in the task_struct, then return -ENOMEM.
+ * At the end of the page fault handler, with the
+ * stack unwound, pagefault_out_of_memory() will check
+ * back with us by calling
+ * mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(), possibly putting the
+ * task to sleep.
+ */
+ current->memcg_oom.oom_locked = locked;
+ current->memcg_oom.wakeups = wakeups;
+ css_get(&memcg->css);
+ current->memcg_oom.wait_on_memcg = memcg;
}
+}
+
+/**
+ * mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize - complete memcg OOM handling
+ *
+ * This has to be called at the end of a page fault if the the memcg
+ * OOM handler was enabled and the fault is returning %VM_FAULT_OOM.
+ *
+ * Memcg supports userspace OOM handling, so failed allocations must
+ * sleep on a waitqueue until the userspace task resolves the
+ * situation. Sleeping directly in the charge context with all kinds
+ * of locks held is not a good idea, instead we remember an OOM state
+ * in the task and mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has to be called at
+ * the end of the page fault to put the task to sleep and clean up the
+ * OOM state.
+ *
+ * Returns %true if an ongoing memcg OOM situation was detected and
+ * finalized, %false otherwise.
+ */
+bool mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(void)
+{
+ struct oom_wait_info owait;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+
+ /* OOM is global, do not handle */
+ if (!current->memcg_oom.in_memcg_oom)
+ return false;
+
+ /*
+ * We invoked the OOM killer but there is a chance that a kill
+ * did not free up any charges. Everybody else might already
+ * be sleeping, so restart the fault and keep the rampage
+ * going until some charges are released.
+ */
+ memcg = current->memcg_oom.wait_on_memcg;
+ if (!memcg)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) || fatal_signal_pending(current))
+ goto out_memcg;
+
+ owait.memcg = memcg;
+ owait.wait.flags = 0;
+ owait.wait.func = memcg_oom_wake_function;
+ owait.wait.private = current;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&owait.wait.task_list);
- if (locked) {
+ prepare_to_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ /* Only sleep if we didn't miss any wakeups since OOM */
+ if (atomic_read(&memcg->oom_wakeups) == current->memcg_oom.wakeups)
+ schedule();
+ finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
+out_memcg:
+ mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
+ if (current->memcg_oom.oom_locked) {
mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(memcg);
/*
* There is no guarantee that an OOM-lock contender
@@ -2083,11 +2159,10 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask,
*/
memcg_oom_recover(memcg);
}
-
- if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) || fatal_signal_pending(current))
- return false;
- /* Give chance to dying process */
- schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+ css_put(&memcg->css);
+ current->memcg_oom.wait_on_memcg = NULL;
+out:
+ current->memcg_oom.in_memcg_oom = 0;
return true;
}
@@ -2400,12 +2475,11 @@ enum {
CHARGE_RETRY, /* need to retry but retry is not bad */
CHARGE_NOMEM, /* we can't do more. return -ENOMEM */
CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK, /* GFP_WAIT wasn't set and no enough res. */
- CHARGE_OOM_DIE, /* the current is killed because of OOM */
};
static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int nr_pages, unsigned int min_pages,
- bool oom_check)
+ bool invoke_oom)
{
unsigned long csize = nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
@@ -2462,14 +2536,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
if (mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move(mem_over_limit))
return CHARGE_RETRY;
- /* If we don't need to call oom-killer at el, return immediately */
- if (!oom_check || !current->memcg_oom.may_oom)
- return CHARGE_NOMEM;
- /* check OOM */
- if (!mem_cgroup_handle_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(csize)))
- return CHARGE_OOM_DIE;
+ if (invoke_oom)
+ mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(csize));
- return CHARGE_RETRY;
+ return CHARGE_NOMEM;
}
/*
@@ -2572,7 +2642,7 @@ again:
}
do {
- bool oom_check;
+ bool invoke_oom = oom && !nr_oom_retries;
/* If killed, bypass charge */
if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
@@ -2580,14 +2650,8 @@ again:
goto bypass;
}
- oom_check = false;
- if (oom && !nr_oom_retries) {
- oom_check = true;
- nr_oom_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
- }
-
- ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, nr_pages,
- oom_check);
+ ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch,
+ nr_pages, invoke_oom);
switch (ret) {
case CHARGE_OK:
break;
@@ -2600,16 +2664,12 @@ again:
css_put(&memcg->css);
goto nomem;
case CHARGE_NOMEM: /* OOM routine works */
- if (!oom) {
+ if (!oom || invoke_oom) {
css_put(&memcg->css);
goto nomem;
}
- /* If oom, we never return -ENOMEM */
nr_oom_retries--;
break;
- case CHARGE_OOM_DIE: /* Killed by OOM Killer */
- css_put(&memcg->css);
- goto bypass;
}
} while (ret != CHARGE_OK);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index a8f9deab8719..5ec6f199e685 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3867,6 +3867,9 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER)
mem_cgroup_disable_oom();
+ if (WARN_ON(task_in_memcg_oom(current) && !(ret & VM_FAULT_OOM)))
+ mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize();
+
return ret;
}
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 98e75f2ac7bc..314e9d274381 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -678,9 +678,12 @@ out:
*/
void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
{
- struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(first_online_node,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct zonelist *zonelist;
+ if (mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize())
+ return;
+
+ zonelist = node_zonelist(first_online_node, GFP_KERNEL);
if (try_set_zonelist_oom(zonelist, GFP_KERNEL)) {
out_of_memory(NULL, 0, 0, NULL, false);
clear_zonelist_oom(zonelist, GFP_KERNEL);