[v11 6/6] mm, oom, docs: describe the cgroup-aware OOM killer

Roman Gushchin
2017-10-05T13:04:54Z

Document the cgroup-aware OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 3f8216912df0..28429e62b0ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ v1 is available under Documentation/cgroup-v1/.
5-2-1. Memory Interface Files
5-2-2. Usage Guidelines
5-2-3. Memory Ownership
+ 5-2-4. OOM Killer
5-3. IO
5-3-1. IO Interface Files
5-3-2. Writeback
@@ -1043,6 +1044,28 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's
utility is limited to providing the final safety net.

+ memory.oom_group
+
+ A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
+ cgroups. The default is "0".
+
+ If set, OOM killer will consider the memory cgroup as an
+ indivisible memory consumers and compare it with other memory
+ consumers by it's memory footprint.
+ If such memory cgroup is selected as an OOM victim, all
+ processes belonging to it or it's descendants will be killed.
+
+ This applies to system-wide OOM conditions and reaching
+ the hard memory limit of the cgroup and their ancestor.
+ If OOM condition happens in a descendant cgroup with it's own
+ memory limit, the memory cgroup can't be considered
+ as an OOM victim, and OOM killer will not kill all belonging
+ tasks.
+
+ Also, OOM killer respects the /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value -1000,
+ and will never kill the unkillable task, even if memory.oom_group
+ is set.
+
memory.events
A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
The following entries are defined. Unless specified
@@ -1246,6 +1269,34 @@ to be accessed repeatedly by other cgroups, it may make sense to use
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to relinquish the ownership of memory areas
belonging to the affected files to ensure correct memory ownership.

+OOM Killer
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Cgroup v2 memory controller implements a cgroup-aware OOM killer.
+It means that it treats cgroups as first class OOM entities.
+
+Under OOM conditions the memory controller tries to make the best
+choice of a victim, looking for a memory cgroup with the largest
+memory footprint, considering leaf cgroups and cgroups with the
+memory.oom_group option set, which are considered to be an indivisible
+memory consumers.
+
+By default, OOM killer will kill the biggest task in the selected
+memory cgroup. A user can change this behavior by enabling
+the per-cgroup memory.oom_group option. If set, it causes
+the OOM killer to kill all processes attached to the cgroup,
+except processes with oom_score_adj set to -1000.
+
+This affects both system- and cgroup-wide OOMs. For a cgroup-wide OOM
+the memory controller considers only cgroups belonging to the sub-tree
+of the OOM'ing cgroup.
+
+The root cgroup is treated as a leaf memory cgroup, so it's compared
+with other leaf memory cgroups and cgroups with oom_group option set.
+
+If there are no cgroups with the enabled memory controller,
+the OOM killer is using the "traditional" process-based approach.
+

IO
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