From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl1-f197.google.com (mail-pl1-f197.google.com [209.85.214.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A3C6B000C for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 03:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pl1-f197.google.com with SMTP id t18-v6so21565380plo.16 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id 19-v6sor20803810pft.4.2018.10.22.00.13.44 for (Google Transport Security); Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:13:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Hocko Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/2] memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM tasks Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:13:23 +0200 Message-Id: <20181022071323.9550-3-mhocko@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20181022071323.9550-1-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <20181022071323.9550-1-mhocko@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Johannes Weiner , Tetsuo Handa , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , LKML , Michal Hocko From: Michal Hocko Tetsuo has reported [1] that a single process group memcg might easily swamp the log with no-eligible oom victim reports due to race between the memcg charge and oom_reaper Thread 1 Thread2 oom_reaper try_charge try_charge mem_cgroup_out_of_memory mutex_lock(oom_lock) mem_cgroup_out_of_memory mutex_lock(oom_lock) out_of_memory select_bad_process oom_kill_process(current) wake_oom_reaper oom_reap_task MMF_OOM_SKIP->victim mutex_unlock(oom_lock) out_of_memory select_bad_process # no task If Thread1 didn't race it would bail out from try_charge and force the charge. We can achieve the same by checking tsk_is_oom_victim inside the oom_lock and therefore close the race. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb2074c0-34fe-8c2c-1c7d-db71338f1e7f@i-love.sakura.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko --- mm/memcontrol.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index e79cb59552d9..a9dfed29967b 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1380,10 +1380,22 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, .gfp_mask = gfp_mask, .order = order, }; - bool ret; + bool ret = true; mutex_lock(&oom_lock); + + /* + * multi-threaded tasks might race with oom_reaper and gain + * MMF_OOM_SKIP before reaching out_of_memory which can lead + * to out_of_memory failure if the task is the last one in + * memcg which would be a false possitive failure reported + */ + if (tsk_is_oom_victim(current)) + goto unlock; + ret = out_of_memory(&oc); + +unlock: mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); return ret; } -- 2.19.1