[PATCH mm v2] memcg: notify about global mem_cgroup_id space depletion

Vasily Averin
2022-06-27T02:11:26Z

Currently, the host owner is not informed about the exhaustion of the
global mem_cgroup_id space. When this happens, systemd cannot start a
new service and receives a unique -ENOSPC error code.
However, this can happen inside this container, persist in the log file
of the local container, and may not be noticed by the host owner if he
did not try to start any new services.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
---
v2: Roman Gushchin pointed that idr_alloc() should return unique -ENOSPC
if no free IDs could be found, but can also return -ENOMEM.
Therefore error code check was added before message output and
patch descriprion was adopted.
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d4c606a06bcd..ffc6b5d6b95e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5317,6 +5317,8 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (memcg->id.id < 0) {
error = memcg->id.id;
+ if (error == -ENOSPC)
+ pr_notice_ratelimited("mem_cgroup_id space is exhausted\n");
goto fail;
}

--
2.36.1