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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 17 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index c2a4b652bd1a..ce3e05e41724 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1170,6 +1170,13 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. Under certain circumstances, the usage may go over the limit temporarily. + In default configuration regular 0-order allocations always + succeed unless OOM killer chooses current task as a victim. + + Some kinds of allocations don't invoke the OOM killer. + Caller could retry them differently, return into userspace + as -ENOMEM or silently ignore in cases like disk readahead. + This is the ultimate protection mechanism. As long as the high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's utility is limited to providing the final safety net. @@ -1226,17 +1233,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. 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 allocation. - - Failed allocation in its turn could be returned into - userspace as -ENOMEM or silently ignored in cases like - disk readahead. For now OOM in memory cgroup kills - tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault. - This event is not raised if the OOM killer is not considered as an option, e.g. for failed high-order - allocations. + allocations or if caller asked to not retry attempts. oom_kill The number of processes belonging to this cgroup |