From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wj0-f198.google.com (mail-wj0-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382206B0038 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 03:52:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wj0-f198.google.com with SMTP id gt1so6793618wjc.0 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s20si1281222wrb.195.2017.02.10.00.52.34 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:52:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:52:32 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [RFC] 3.10 kernel- oom with about 24G free memory Message-ID: <20170210085232.GD10893@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <9a22aefd-dfb8-2e4c-d280-fc172893bcb4@huawei.com> <20170209132628.GI10257@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170209134131.GJ10257@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170210070930.GA9346@dhcp22.suse.cz> <7d01fea5-66d6-b6ac-918d-19ec8a15dbaf@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7d01fea5-66d6-b6ac-918d-19ec8a15dbaf@huawei.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Yisheng Xie Cc: Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa , Hanjun Guo On Fri 10-02-17 16:48:58, Yisheng Xie wrote: > Hi Michal, > > Thanks for comment! > On 2017/2/10 15:09, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 10-02-17 09:13:58, Yisheng Xie wrote: > >> hi Michal, > >> Thanks for your comment. > >> > >> On 2017/2/9 21:41, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > >>>> OK, so this is a memcg OOM killer which panics because the configuration > >>>> says so. The OOM report doesn't say so and that is the bug. dump_header > >>>> is memcg aware and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory initializes oom_control > >>>> properly. Is this Vanilla kernel? > >> > >> That means we should raise the limit of that memcg to avoid memcg OOM killer, right? > > > > Why do you configure the system to panic on memcg OOM in the first > > place. This is a wrong thing to do in 99% of cases. > > For our production think it should use reboot to recovery the system when OOM, > instead of killing user's key process. Maybe not the right thing. I can understand that for the global oom killer but not for memcg. You can recover the oom even without killing any process. You can simply increase the limit from the userspace when the oom event is triggered. Trigerring the panic on memcg oom killer is both dangerous and most probably something you do not want. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org