From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] oom, memcg: fix exclusion of memcg threads after they have detached their mm
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:59:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215155926.GA22819@tiehlicka.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112141838470.27595@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed 14-12-11 18:39:40, David Rientjes wrote:
> oom, memcg: fix exclusion of memcg threads after they have detached their mm
>
> The oom killer relies on logic that identifies threads that have already
> been oom killed when scanning the tasklist and, if found, deferring until
> such threads have exited. This is done by checking for any candidate
> threads that have the TIF_MEMDIE bit set.
>
> For memcg ooms, candidate threads are first found by calling
> task_in_mem_cgroup() since the oom killer should not defer if there's an
> oom killed thread in another memcg.
>
> Unfortunately, task_in_mem_cgroup() excludes threads if they have
> detached their mm in the process of exiting so TIF_MEMDIE is never
> detected for such conditions. This is different for global, mempolicy,
> and cpuset oom conditions where a detached mm is only excluded after
> checking for TIF_MEMDIE and deferring, if necessary, in
> select_bad_process().
>
> The fix is to return true if a task has a detached mm but is still in the
> memcg or its hierarchy that is currently oom. This will allow the oom
> killer to appropriately defer rather than kill unnecessarily or, in the
> worst case, panic the machine if nothing else is available to kill.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1109,10 +1109,19 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> struct task_struct *p;
>
> p = find_lock_task_mm(task);
> - if (!p)
> - return 0;
> - curr = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(p->mm);
> - task_unlock(p);
> + if (p) {
> + curr = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(p->mm);
> + task_unlock(p);
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * All threads may have already detached their mm's, but the oom
> + * killer still needs to detect if they have already been oom
> + * killed to prevent needlessly killing additional tasks.
> + */
> + curr = mem_cgroup_from_task(task);
> + if (curr)
> + css_get(&curr->css);
Sorry, but I forgot to mention that we need task_lock(task) around
css_get.
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Czech Republic
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 0:59 [patch] oom, memcg: fix exclusion of memcg threads after they have detached their mm David Rientjes
2011-12-14 1:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-14 10:29 ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-15 2:39 ` [patch v2] " David Rientjes
2011-12-15 14:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-15 15:59 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2011-12-15 21:36 ` [patch v3] " David Rientjes
2011-12-15 22:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-16 8:31 ` Michal Hocko
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