[patch 3/7 -mm] oom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy ooms

David Rientjes
2010-02-10T16:33:15Z

The oom killer presently kills current whenever there is no more memory
free or reclaimable on its mempolicy's nodes. There is no guarantee that
current is a memory-hogging task or that killing it will free any
substantial amount of memory, however.

In such situations, it is better to scan the tasklist for nodes that are
allowed to allocate on current's set of nodes and kill the task with the
highest badness() score. This ensures that the most memory-hogging task,
or the one configured by the user with /proc/pid/oom_adj, is always
selected in such scenarios.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
include/linux/mempolicy.h | 13 +++++++-
mm/mempolicy.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/oom_kill.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
3 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,
struct mempolicy **mpol, nodemask_t **nodemask);
extern bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *mask);
+extern bool mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const nodemask_t *mask);
extern unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy);

extern enum zone_type policy_zone;
@@ -329,7 +331,16 @@ static inline struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return node_zonelist(0, gfp_flags);
}

-static inline bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *m) { return false; }
+static inline bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *m)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const nodemask_t *mask)
+{
+ return false;
+}

static inline int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
const nodemask_t *from_nodes,
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1638,6 +1638,45 @@ bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *mask)
}
#endif

+/*
+ * mempolicy_nodemask_intersects
+ *
+ * If tsk's mempolicy is "default" [NULL], return 'true' to indicate default
+ * policy. Otherwise, check for intersection between mask and the policy
+ * nodemask for 'bind' or 'interleave' policy, or mask to contain the single
+ * node for 'preferred' or 'local' policy.
+ */
+bool mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const nodemask_t *mask)
+{
+ struct mempolicy *mempolicy;
+ bool ret = true;
+
+ mempolicy = tsk->mempolicy;
+ mpol_get(mempolicy);
+ if (!mask || !mempolicy)
+ goto out;
+
+ switch (mempolicy->mode) {
+ case MPOL_PREFERRED:
+ if (mempolicy->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
+ ret = node_isset(numa_node_id(), *mask);
+ else
+ ret = node_isset(mempolicy->v.preferred_node,
+ *mask);
+ break;
+ case MPOL_BIND:
+ case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
+ ret = nodes_intersects(mempolicy->v.nodes, *mask);
+ break;
+ default:
+ BUG();
+ }
+out:
+ mpol_put(mempolicy);
+ return ret;
+}
+
/* Allocate a page in interleaved policy.
Own path because it needs to do special accounting. */
static struct page *alloc_page_interleave(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order,
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
+#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/security.h>

int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
@@ -36,19 +37,35 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock);

/*
* Do all threads of the target process overlap our allowed nodes?
+ * @tsk: task struct of which task to consider
+ * @mask: nodemask passed to page allocator for mempolicy ooms
*/
-static int has_intersects_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static bool has_intersects_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const nodemask_t *mask)
{
- struct task_struct *t;
+ struct task_struct *start = tsk;

- t = tsk;
do {
- if (cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects(current, t))
- return 1;
- t = next_thread(t);
- } while (t != tsk);
-
- return 0;
+ if (mask) {
+ /*
+ * If this is a mempolicy constrained oom, tsk's
+ * cpuset is irrelevant. Only return true if its
+ * mempolicy intersects current, otherwise it may be
+ * needlessly killed.
+ */
+ if (mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(tsk, mask))
+ return true;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * This is not a mempolicy constrained oom, so only
+ * check the mems of tsk's cpuset.
+ */
+ if (cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects(current, tsk))
+ return true;
+ }
+ tsk = next_thread(tsk);
+ } while (tsk != start);
+ return false;
}

/**
@@ -236,7 +253,8 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
* (not docbooked, we don't want this one cluttering up the manual)
*/
static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
- struct mem_cgroup *mem)
+ struct mem_cgroup *mem, enum oom_constraint constraint,
+ const nodemask_t *mask)
{
struct task_struct *p;
struct task_struct *chosen = NULL;
@@ -258,7 +276,9 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
continue;
if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
continue;
- if (!has_intersects_mems_allowed(p))
+ if (!has_intersects_mems_allowed(p,
+ constraint == CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY ? mask :
+ NULL))
continue;

/*
@@ -478,7 +498,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask)

read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
retry:
- p = select_bad_process(&points, mem);
+ p = select_bad_process(&points, mem, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL);
if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
goto out;

@@ -560,7 +580,8 @@ void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask)
/*
* Must be called with tasklist_lock held for read.
*/
-static void __out_of_memory(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
+static void __out_of_memory(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
+ enum oom_constraint constraint, const nodemask_t *mask)
{
struct task_struct *p;
unsigned long points;
@@ -574,7 +595,7 @@ retry:
* Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever
* issues we may have.
*/
- p = select_bad_process(&points, NULL);
+ p = select_bad_process(&points, NULL, constraint, mask);

if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
return;
@@ -615,7 +636,8 @@ void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
panic("out of memory from page fault. panic_on_oom is selected.\n");

read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- __out_of_memory(0, 0); /* unknown gfp_mask and order */
+ /* unknown gfp_mask and order */
+ __out_of_memory(0, 0, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

/*
@@ -632,6 +654,7 @@ rest_and_return:
* @zonelist: zonelist pointer
* @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags
* @order: amount of memory being requested as a power of 2
+ * @nodemask: nodemask passed to page allocator
*
* If we run out of memory, we have the choice between either
* killing a random task (bad), letting the system crash (worse)
@@ -660,24 +683,18 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
*/
constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask, nodemask);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-
- switch (constraint) {
- case CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY:
- oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, NULL,
- "No available memory (MPOL_BIND)");
- break;
-
- case CONSTRAINT_NONE:
- if (sysctl_panic_on_oom) {
+ if (unlikely(sysctl_panic_on_oom)) {
+ /*
+ * panic_on_oom only affects CONSTRAINT_NONE, the kernel
+ * should not panic for cpuset or mempolicy induced memory
+ * failures.
+ */
+ if (constraint == CONSTRAINT_NONE) {
dump_header(NULL, gfp_mask, order, NULL);
- panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n");
+ panic("Out of memory: panic_on_oom is enabled\n");
}
- /* Fall-through */
- case CONSTRAINT_CPUSET:
- __out_of_memory(gfp_mask, order);
- break;
}
-
+ __out_of_memory(gfp_mask, order, constraint, nodemask);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

/*