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2015-02-11mm: account pmd page tables to the processKirill A. Shutemov1-4/+5
Dave noticed that unprivileged process can allocate significant amount of memory -- >500 MiB on x86_64 -- and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory cgroup. The trick is to allocate a lot of PMD page tables. Linux kernel doesn't account PMD tables to the process, only PTE. The use-cases below use few tricks to allocate a lot of PMD page tables while keeping VmRSS and VmPTE low. oom_score for the process will be 0. #include <errno.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> #define PUD_SIZE (1UL << 30) #define PMD_SIZE (1UL << 21) #define NR_PUD 130000 int main(void) { char *addr = NULL; unsigned long i; prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE); for (i = 0; i < NR_PUD ; i++) { addr = mmap(addr + PUD_SIZE, PUD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); break; } *addr = 'x'; munmap(addr, PMD_SIZE); mmap(addr, PMD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) perror("re-mmap"), exit(1); } printf("PID %d consumed %lu KiB in PMD page tables\n", getpid(), i * 4096 >> 10); return pause(); } The patch addresses the issue by account PMD tables to the process the same way we account PTE. The main place where PMD tables is accounted is __pmd_alloc() and free_pmd_range(). But there're few corner cases: - HugeTLB can share PMD page tables. The patch handles by accounting the table to all processes who share it. - x86 PAE pre-allocates few PMD tables on fork. - Architectures with FIRST_USER_ADDRESS > 0. We need to adjust sanity check on exit(2). Accounting only happens on configuration where PMD page table's level is present (PMD is not folded). As with nr_ptes we use per-mm counter. The counter value is used to calculate baseline for badness score by oom-killer. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path racelessMichal Hocko1-20/+112
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 <mhocko@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11oom: thaw the OOM victim if it is frozenMichal Hocko1-2/+8
oom_kill_process only sets TIF_MEMDIE flag and sends a signal to the victim. This is basically noop when the task is frozen though because the task sleeps in the uninterruptible sleep. The victim is eventually thawed later when oom_scan_process_thread meets the task again in a later OOM invocation so the OOM killer doesn't live lock. But this is less than optimal. Let's add __thaw_task into mark_tsk_oom_victim after we set TIF_MEMDIE to the victim. We are not checking whether the task is frozen because that would be racy and __thaw_task does that already. oom_scan_process_thread doesn't need to care about freezer anymore as TIF_MEMDIE and freezer are excluded completely now. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11oom: add helpers for setting and clearing TIF_MEMDIEMichal Hocko1-3/+20
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 <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lockMichal Hocko1-2/+5
OOM killer tries to exclude tasks which do not have mm_struct associated because killing such a task wouldn't help much. The OOM victim gets TIF_MEMDIE set to disable OOM killer while the current victim releases the memory and then enables the OOM killer again by dropping the flag. oom_kill_process is currently prone to a race condition when the OOM victim is already exiting and TIF_MEMDIE is set after the task releases its address space. This might theoretically lead to OOM livelock if the OOM victim blocks on an allocation later during exiting because it wouldn't kill any other process and the exiting one won't be able to exit. The situation is highly unlikely because the OOM victim is expected to release some memory which should help to sort out OOM situation. Fix this by checking task->mm and setting TIF_MEMDIE flag under task_lock which will serialize the OOM killer with exit_mm which sets task->mm to NULL. Setting the flag for current is not necessary because check and set is not racy. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11oom: don't count on mm-less current processTetsuo Handa1-1/+5
out_of_memory() doesn't trigger the OOM killer if the current task is already exiting or it has fatal signals pending, and gives the task access to memory reserves instead. However, doing so is wrong if out_of_memory() is called by an allocation (e.g. from exit_task_work()) after the current task has already released its memory and cleared TIF_MEMDIE at exit_mm(). If we again set TIF_MEMDIE to post-exit_mm() current task, the OOM killer will be blocked by the task sitting in the final schedule() waiting for its parent to reap it. It will trigger an OOM livelock if its parent is unable to reap it due to doing an allocation and waiting for the OOM killer to kill it. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13oom: kill the insufficient and no longer needed PT_TRACE_EXIT checkOleg Nesterov1-8/+3
After the previous patch we can remove the PT_TRACE_EXIT check in oom_scan_process_thread(), it was added to handle the case when the coredumping was "frozen" by ptrace, but it doesn't really work. If nothing else, we would need to check all threads which could share the same ->mm to make it more or less correct. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soonOleg Nesterov1-3/+3
oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump. A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread can need more memory. Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account, we add the new trivial helper for that. Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state, so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set. fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it. And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-11Merge branch 'for-3.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup update from Tejun Heo: "cpuset got simplified a bit. cgroup core got a fix on unified hierarchy and grew some effective css related interfaces which will be used for blkio support for writeback IO traffic which is currently being worked on" * 'for-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: implement cgroup_get_e_css() cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->css_e_css_changed() cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->css_released() cgroup: fix the async css offline wait logic in cgroup_subtree_control_write() cgroup: restructure child_subsys_mask handling in cgroup_subtree_control_write() cgroup: separate out cgroup_calc_child_subsys_mask() from cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask() cpuset: lock vs unlock typo cpuset: simplify cpuset_node_allowed API cpuset: convert callback_mutex to a spinlock
2014-12-10mm: memcontrol: drop bogus RCU locking from mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree()Johannes Weiner1-2/+2
None of the mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() callers actually require it to take the RCU lock, either because they hold it themselves or they have css references. Remove it. To make the API change clear, rename the leftover helper to mem_cgroup_is_descendant() to match cgroup_is_descendant(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-27cpuset: simplify cpuset_node_allowed APIVladimir Davydov1-1/+1
Current cpuset API for checking if a zone/node is allowed to allocate from looks rather awkward. We have hardwall and softwall versions of cpuset_node_allowed with the softwall version doing literally the same as the hardwall version if __GFP_HARDWALL is passed to it in gfp flags. If it isn't, the softwall version may check the given node against the enclosing hardwall cpuset, which it needs to take the callback lock to do. Such a distinction was introduced by commit 02a0e53d8227 ("cpuset: rework cpuset_zone_allowed api"). Before, we had the only version with the __GFP_HARDWALL flag determining its behavior. The purpose of the commit was to avoid sleep-in-atomic bugs when someone would mistakenly call the function without the __GFP_HARDWALL flag for an atomic allocation. The suffixes introduced were intended to make the callers think before using the function. However, since the callback lock was converted from mutex to spinlock by the previous patch, the softwall check function cannot sleep, and these precautions are no longer necessary. So let's simplify the API back to the single check. Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-10-21OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspendMichal Hocko1-0/+17
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. Reduce the race window by checking all tasks after OOM killer has been disabled. This is still not race free completely unfortunately because oom_killer_disable cannot stop an already ongoing OOM killer so a task might still wake up from the fridge and get killed without freeze_processes noticing. Full synchronization of OOM and freezer is, however, too heavy weight for this highly unlikely case. Introduce and check oom_kills counter which gets incremented early when the allocator enters __alloc_pages_may_oom path and only check all the tasks if the counter changes during the freezing attempt. The counter is updated so early to reduce the race window since allocator checked oom_killer_disabled which is set by PM-freezing code. A false positive will push the PM-freezer into a slow path but that is not a big deal. Changes since v1 - push the re-check loop out of freeze_processes into check_frozen_processes and invert the condition to make the code more readable as per Rafael Fixes: f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring) Cc: 3.2+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.2+ Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-10-09mm: clean up zone flagsJohannes Weiner1-3/+3
Page reclaim tests zone_is_reclaim_dirty(), but the site that actually sets this state does zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY), sending the reader through layers indirection just to track down a simple bit. Remove all zone flag wrappers and just use bitops against zone->flags directly. It's just as readable and the lines are barely any longer. Also rename ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY to ZONE_DIRTY to match ZONE_WRITEBACK, and remove the zone_flags_t typedef. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06mm, oom: remove unnecessary exit_state checkDavid Rientjes1-2/+0
The oom killer scans each process and determines whether it is eligible for oom kill or whether the oom killer should abort because of concurrent memory freeing. It will abort when an eligible process is found to have TIF_MEMDIE set, meaning it has already been oom killed and we're waiting for it to exit. Processes with task->mm == NULL should not be considered because they are either kthreads or have already detached their memory and killing them would not lead to memory freeing. That memory is only freed after exit_mm() has returned, however, and not when task->mm is first set to NULL. Clear TIF_MEMDIE after exit_mm()'s mmput() so that an oom killed process is no longer considered for oom kill, but only until exit_mm() has returned. This was fragile in the past because it relied on exit_notify() to be reached before no longer considering TIF_MEMDIE processes. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06mm, oom: rename zonelist locking functionsDavid Rientjes1-17/+13
try_set_zonelist_oom() and clear_zonelist_oom() are not named properly to imply that they require locking semantics to avoid out_of_memory() being reordered. zone_scan_lock is required for both functions to ensure that there is proper locking synchronization. Rename try_set_zonelist_oom() to oom_zonelist_trylock() and rename clear_zonelist_oom() to oom_zonelist_unlock() to imply there is proper locking semantics. At the same time, convert oom_zonelist_trylock() to return bool instead of int since only success and failure are tested. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06mm, oom: ensure memoryless node zonelist always includes zonesDavid Rientjes1-1/+1
With memoryless node support being worked on, it's possible that for optimizations that a node may not have a non-NULL zonelist. When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled and node 0 is memoryless, this means the zonelist for first_online_node may become NULL. The oom killer requires a zonelist that includes all memory zones for the sysrq trigger and pagefault out of memory handler. Ensure that a non-NULL zonelist is always passed to the oom killer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-numa build] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30mm, oom: base root bonus on current usageDavid Rientjes1-1/+1
A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to other processes. With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption. But as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and kill dhclient or other root-owned processes. For example, on a 32G machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G fork bomb member. The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task individually_ during OOM selection. Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage bonus. By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size, they remain comparable even when relatively small. In the example above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing agetty because it's first in the task list. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23mm, oom: prefer thread group leaders for display purposesDavid Rientjes1-4/+8
When two threads have the same badness score, it's preferable to kill the thread group leader so that the actual process name is printed to the kernel log rather than the thread group name which may be shared amongst several processes. This was the behavior when select_bad_process() used to do for_each_process(), but it now iterates threads instead and leads to ambiguity. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21oom_kill: add rcu_read_lock() into find_lock_task_mm()Oleg Nesterov1-4/+8
find_lock_task_mm() expects it is called under rcu or tasklist lock, but it seems that at least oom_unkillable_task()->task_in_mem_cgroup() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()->oom_badness() can call it lockless. Perhaps we could fix the callers, but this patch simply adds rcu lock into find_lock_task_mm(). This also allows to simplify a bit one of its callers, oom_kill_process(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21oom_kill: has_intersects_mems_allowed() needs rcu_read_lock()Oleg Nesterov1-8/+11
At least out_of_memory() calls has_intersects_mems_allowed() without even rcu_read_lock(), this is obviously buggy. Add the necessary rcu_read_lock(). This means that we can not simply return from the loop, we need "bool ret" and "break". While at it, swap the names of task_struct's (the argument and the local). This cleans up the code a little bit and avoids the unnecessary initialization. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21oom_kill: change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov1-10/+10
Change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread() rather than the racy while_each_thread() which can loop forever if we race with exit. Note also that most users were buggy even if while_each_thread() was fine, the task can exit even _before_ rcu_read_lock(). Fortunately the new for_each_thread() only requires the stable task_struct, so this change fixes both problems. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15mm: convert mm->nr_ptes to atomic_long_tKirill A. Shutemov1-3/+3
With split page table lock for PMD level we can't hold mm->page_table_lock while updating nr_ptes. Let's convert it to atomic_long_t to avoid races. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-16mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefullyJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
Commit 3812c8c8f395 ("mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM") assumed that only a few places that can trigger a memcg OOM situation do not return VM_FAULT_OOM, like optional page cache readahead. But there are many more and it's impractical to annotate them all. First of all, we don't want to invoke the OOM killer when the failed allocation is gracefully handled, so defer the actual kill to the end of the fault handling as well. This simplifies the code quite a bit for added bonus. Second, since a failed allocation might not be the abrupt end of the fault, the memcg OOM handler needs to be re-entrant until the fault finishes for subsequent allocation attempts. If an allocation is attempted after the task already OOMed, allow it to bypass the limit so that it can quickly finish the fault and invoke the OOM killer. Reported-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOMJohannes Weiner1-2/+5
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>
2013-07-15mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR().Rusty Russell1-3/+3
The normal expectation for ERR_PTR() is to put a negative errno into a pointer. oom_kill puts the magic -1 in the result (and has since pre-git), which is probably clearer with an explicit cast. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-02-23memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while memcg oom happeningSha Zhengju1-2/+4
Currently when a memcg oom is happening the oom dump messages is still global state and provides few useful info for users. This patch prints more pointed memcg page statistics for memcg-oom and take hierarchy into consideration: Based on Michal's advice, we take hierarchy into consideration: supppose we trigger an OOM on A's limit root_memcg | A (use_hierachy=1) / \ B C | D then the printed info will be: Memory cgroup stats for /A:... Memory cgroup stats for /A/B:... Memory cgroup stats for /A/C:... Memory cgroup stats for /A/B/D:... Following are samples of oom output: (1) Before change: mal-80 invoked oom-killer:gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 mal-80 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Pid: 2976, comm: mal-80 Not tainted 3.7.0+ #10 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8167fbfb>] dump_header+0x83/0x1ca ..... (call trace) [<ffffffff8168a818>] page_fault+0x28/0x30 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< memcg specific information Task in /A/B/D killed as a result of limit of /A memory: usage 101376kB, limit 101376kB, failcnt 57 memory+swap: usage 101376kB, limit 101376kB, failcnt 0 kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print per cpu pageset stat Mem-Info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 ...... CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 173 ...... CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 130 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print global page state active_anon:92963 inactive_anon:40777 isolated_anon:0 active_file:33027 inactive_file:51718 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:3 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:729995 slab_reclaimable:6897 slab_unreclaimable:6263 mapped:20278 shmem:35971 pagetables:5885 bounce:0 free_cma:0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print per zone page state Node 0 DMA free:15836kB ... all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3175 3899 3899 Node 0 DMA32 free:2888564kB ... all_unrelaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 724 724 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB (U) ... 3*4096kB (M) = 15836kB Node 0 DMA32: 41*4kB (UM) ... 702*4096kB (MR) = 2888316kB 120710 total pagecache pages 0 pages in swap cache <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< print global swap cache stat Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Free swap = 499708kB Total swap = 499708kB 1040368 pages RAM 58678 pages reserved 169065 pages shared 173632 pages non-shared [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name [ 2693] 0 2693 6005 1324 17 0 0 god [ 2754] 0 2754 6003 1320 16 0 0 god [ 2811] 0 2811 5992 1304 18 0 0 god [ 2874] 0 2874 6005 1323 18 0 0 god [ 2935] 0 2935 8720 7742 21 0 0 mal-30 [ 2976] 0 2976 21520 17577 42 0 0 mal-80 Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 2976 (mal-80) score 665 or sacrifice child Killed process 2976 (mal-80) total-vm:86080kB, anon-rss:69964kB, file-rss:344kB We can see that messages dumped by show_free_areas() are longsome and can provide so limited info for memcg that just happen oom. (2) After change mal-80 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 mal-80 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Pid: 2704, comm: mal-80 Not tainted 3.7.0+ #10 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8167fd0b>] dump_header+0x83/0x1d1 .......(call trace) [<ffffffff8168a918>] page_fault+0x28/0x30 Task in /A/B/D killed as a result of limit of /A <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< memcg specific information memory: usage 102400kB, limit 102400kB, failcnt 140 memory+swap: usage 102400kB, limit 102400kB, failcnt 0 kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0 Memory cgroup stats for /A: cache:32KB rss:30984KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:6912KB active_anon:24072KB inactive_file:32KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB Memory cgroup stats for /A/B: cache:0KB rss:0KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB Memory cgroup stats for /A/C: cache:0KB rss:0KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB Memory cgroup stats for /A/B/D: cache:32KB rss:71352KB mapped_file:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:6656KB active_anon:64696KB inactive_file:16KB active_file:16KB unevictable:0KB [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name [ 2260] 0 2260 6006 1325 18 0 0 god [ 2383] 0 2383 6003 1319 17 0 0 god [ 2503] 0 2503 6004 1321 18 0 0 god [ 2622] 0 2622 6004 1321 16 0 0 god [ 2695] 0 2695 8720 7741 22 0 0 mal-30 [ 2704] 0 2704 21520 17839 43 0 0 mal-80 Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 2704 (mal-80) score 669 or sacrifice child Killed process 2704 (mal-80) total-vm:86080kB, anon-rss:71016kB, file-rss:340kB This version provides more pointed info for memcg in "Memory cgroup stats for XXX" section. Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handlerDavid Rientjes1-1/+0
out_of_memory() will already cause current to schedule if it has not been killed, so doing it again in pagefault_out_of_memory() is redundant. Remove it. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12mm, oom: cleanup pagefault oom handlerDavid Rientjes1-42/+7
To lock the entire system from parallel oom killing, it's possible to pass in a zonelist with all zones rather than using for_each_populated_zone() for the iteration. This obsoletes try_set_system_oom() and clear_system_oom() so that they can be removed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12oom: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORYLai Jiangshan1-1/+1
N_HIGH_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has normal or high memory. N_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has any memory. The code here need to handle with the nodes which have memory, we should use N_MEMORY instead. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.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>
2012-12-11mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom originDavid Rientjes1-42/+7
test_set_oom_score_adj() and compare_swap_oom_score_adj() are used to specify that current should be killed first if an oom condition occurs in between the two calls. The usage is short oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX); ... compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj); to store the thread's oom_score_adj, temporarily change it to the maximum score possible, and then restore the old value if it is still the same. This happens to still be racy, however, if the user writes OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX to /proc/pid/oom_score_adj in between the two calls. The compare_swap_oom_score_adj() will then incorrectly reset the old value prior to the write of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX. To fix this, introduce a new oom_flags_t member in struct signal_struct that will be used for per-thread oom killer flags. KSM and swapoff can now use a bit in this member to specify that threads should be killed first in oom conditions without playing around with oom_score_adj. This also allows the correct oom_score_adj to always be shown when reading /proc/pid/oom_score. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to shortDavid Rientjes1-5/+5
The maximum oom_score_adj is 1000 and the minimum oom_score_adj is -1000, so this range can be represented by the signed short type with no functional change. The extra space this frees up in struct signal_struct will be used for per-thread oom kill flags in the next patch. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11mm, oom: allow exiting threads to have access to memory reservesDavid Rientjes1-22/+9
Exiting threads, those with PF_EXITING set, can pagefault and require memory before they can make forward progress. This happens, for instance, when a process must fault task->robust_list, a userspace structure, before detaching its memory. These threads also aren't guaranteed to get access to memory reserves unless oom killed or killed from userspace. The oom killer won't grant memory reserves if other threads are also exiting other than current and stalling at the same point. This prevents needlessly killing processes when others are already exiting. Instead of special casing all the possible situations between PF_EXITING getting set and a thread detaching its mm where it may allocate memory, which probably wouldn't get updated when a change is made to the exit path, the solution is to give all exiting threads access to memory reserves if they call the oom killer. This allows them to quickly allocate, detach its mm, and free the memory it represents. Summary of Luigi's bug report: : He had an oom condition where threads were faulting on task->robust_list : and repeatedly called the oom killer but it would defer killing a thread : because it saw other PF_EXITING threads. This can happen anytime we need : to allocate memory after setting PF_EXITING and before detaching our mm; : if there are other threads in the same state then the oom killer won't do : anything unless one of them happens to be killed from userspace. : : So instead of only deferring for PF_EXITING and !task->robust_list, it's : better to just give them access to memory reserves to prevent a potential : livelock so that any other faults that may be introduced in the future in : the exit path don't cause the same problem (and hopefully we don't allow : too many of those!). Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.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>
2012-10-09oom: remove deprecated oom_adjDavidlohr Bueso1-2/+2
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2012-07-31mm, memcg: move all oom handling to memcontrol.cDavid Rientjes1-21/+2
By globally defining check_panic_on_oom(), the memcg oom handler can be moved entirely to mm/memcontrol.c. This removes the ugly #ifdef in the oom killer and cleans up the code. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
2012-07-31mm, oom: reduce dependency on tasklist_lockDavid Rientjes1-11/+30
Since exiting tasks require write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) several times, try to reduce the amount of time the readside is held for oom kills. This makes the interface with the memcg oom handler more consistent since it now never needs to take tasklist_lock unnecessarily. The only time the oom killer now takes tasklist_lock is when iterating the children of the selected task, everything else is protected by rcu_read_lock(). This requires that a reference to the selected process, p, is grabbed before calling oom_kill_process(). It may release it and grab a reference on another one of p's threads if !p->mm, but it also guarantees that it will release the reference before returning. [hughd@google.com: fix duplicate put_task_struct()] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31mm, memcg: introduce own oom handler to iterate only over its own threadsDavid Rientjes1-33/+15
The global oom killer is serialized by the per-zonelist try_set_zonelist_oom() which is used in the page allocator. Concurrent oom kills are thus a rare event and only occur in systems using mempolicies and with a large number of nodes. Memory controller oom kills, however, can frequently be concurrent since there is no serialization once the oom killer is called for oom conditions in several different memcgs in parallel. This creates a massive contention on tasklist_lock since the oom killer requires the readside for the tasklist iteration. If several memcgs are calling the oom killer, this lock can be held for a substantial amount of time, especially if threads continue to enter it as other threads are exiting. Since the exit path grabs the writeside of the lock with irqs disabled in a few different places, this can cause a soft lockup on cpus as a result of tasklist_lock starvation. The kernel lacks unfair writelocks, and successful calls to the oom killer usually result in at least one thread entering the exit path, so an alternative solution is needed. This patch introduces a seperate oom handler for memcgs so that they do not require tasklist_lock for as much time. Instead, it iterates only over the threads attached to the oom memcg and grabs a reference to the selected thread before calling oom_kill_process() to ensure it doesn't prematurely exit. This still requires tasklist_lock for the tasklist dump, iterating children of the selected process, and killing all other threads on the system sharing the same memory as the selected victim. So while this isn't a complete solution to tasklist_lock starvation, it significantly reduces the amount of time that it is held. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31mm, oom: introduce helper function to process threads during scanDavid Rientjes1-46/+65
This patch introduces a helper function to process each thread during the iteration over the tasklist. A new return type, enum oom_scan_t, is defined to determine the future behavior of the iteration: - OOM_SCAN_OK: continue scanning the thread and find its badness, - OOM_SCAN_CONTINUE: do not consider this thread for oom kill, it's ineligible, - OOM_SCAN_ABORT: abort the iteration and return, or - OOM_SCAN_SELECT: always select this thread with the highest badness possible. There is no functional change with this patch. This new helper function will be used in the next patch in the memory controller. Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31memcg: rename config variablesAndrew Morton1-1/+1
Sanity: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM [mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits] Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2012-07-31mm, oom: replace some information in tasklist dumpDavid Rientjes1-5/+6
The number of ptes and swap entries are used in the oom killer's badness heuristic, so they should be shown in the tasklist dump. This patch adds those fields and replaces cpu and oom_adj values that are currently emitted. Cpu isn't interesting and oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed later this year, the same information is already displayed as oom_score_adj which is used internally. At the same time, make the documentation a little more clear to state this information is helpful to determine why the oom killer chose the task it did to kill. Signed-off-by: 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>
2012-07-31mm, oom: fix potential killing of thread that is disabled from oom killingDavid Rientjes1-2/+2
/proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task will immediately kill current when the oom killer is called to avoid a potentially expensive tasklist scan for large systems. Currently, however, it is not checking current's oom_score_adj value which may be OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN, meaning that it has been disabled from oom killing. This patch avoids killing current in such a condition and simply falls back to the tasklist scan since memory still needs to be freed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: 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>
2012-07-31mm, oom: do not schedule if current has been killedDavid Rientjes1-6/+5
The oom killer currently schedules away from current in an uninterruptible sleep if it does not have access to memory reserves. It's possible that current was killed because it shares memory with the oom killed thread or because it was killed by the user in the interim, however. This patch only schedules away from current if it does not have a pending kill, i.e. if it does not share memory with the oom killed thread. It's possible that it will immediately retry its memory allocation and fail, but it will immediately be given access to memory reserves if it calls the oom killer again. This prevents the delay of memory freeing when threads that share memory with the oom killed thread get unnecessarily scheduled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20mm: fix kernel-doc warningsWanpeng Li1-1/+1
Fix kernel-doc warnings such as Warning(../mm/page_cgroup.c:432): No description found for parameter 'id' Warning(../mm/page_cgroup.c:432): Excess function parameter 'mem' description in 'swap_cgroup_record' Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20mm, oom: fix and cleanup oom score calculationsDavid Rientjes1-8/+7
The divide in p->signal->oom_score_adj * totalpages / 1000 within oom_badness() was causing an overflow of the signed long data type. This adds both the root bias and p->signal->oom_score_adj before doing the normalization which fixes the issue and also cleans up the calculation. Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-08mm, oom: fix badness score underflowDavid Rientjes1-2/+2
If the privileges given to root threads (3% of allowable memory) or a negative value of /proc/pid/oom_score_adj happen to exceed the amount of rss of a thread, its badness score overflows as a result of commit a7f638f999ff ("mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only for userspace"). Fix this by making the type signed and return 1, meaning the thread is still eligible for kill, if the value is negative. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only for userspaceDavid Rientjes1-28/+16
The oom_score_adj scale ranges from -1000 to 1000 and represents the proportion of memory available to the process at allocation time. This means an oom_score_adj value of 300, for example, will bias a process as though it was using an extra 30.0% of available memory and a value of -350 will discount 35.0% of available memory from its usage. The oom killer badness heuristic also uses this scale to report the oom score for each eligible process in determining the "best" process to kill. Thus, it can only differentiate each process's memory usage by 0.1% of system RAM. On large systems, this can end up being a large amount of memory: 256MB on 256GB systems, for example. This can be fixed by having the badness heuristic to use the actual memory usage in scoring threads and then normalizing it to the oom_score_adj scale for userspace. This results in better comparison between eligible threads for kill and no change from the userspace perspective. Suggested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-03userns: Store uid and gid values in struct cred with kuid_t and kgid_t typesEric W. Biederman1-2/+2
cred.h and a few trivial users of struct cred are changed. The rest of the users of struct cred are left for other patches as there are too many changes to make in one go and leave the change reviewable. If the user namespace is disabled and CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS are disabled the code will contiue to compile and behave correctly. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-03-23signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()Oleg Nesterov1-2/+2
Change oom_kill_task() to use do_send_sig_info(SEND_SIG_FORCED) instead of force_sig(SIGKILL). With the recent changes we do not need force_ to kill the CLONE_NEWPID tasks. And this is more correct. force_sig() can race with the exiting thread even if oom_kill_task() checks p->mm != NULL, while do_send_sig_info(group => true) kille the whole process. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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>
2012-03-21mm, memcg: pass charge order to oom killerDavid Rientjes1-3/+4
The oom killer typically displays the allocation order at the time of oom as a part of its diangostic messages (for global, cpuset, and mempolicy ooms). The memory controller may also pass the charge order to the oom killer so it can emit the same information. This is useful in determining how large the memory allocation is that triggered the oom killer. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+fDavid Rientjes1-7/+10
The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if: - an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit, and - an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory. SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself. For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21mm, oom: introduce independent oom killer ratelimit stateDavid Rientjes1-1/+4
printk_ratelimit() uses the global ratelimit state for all printks. The oom killer should not be subjected to this state just because another subsystem or driver may be flooding the kernel log. This patch introduces printk ratelimiting specifically for the oom killer. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>