[PATCH 4/6] oom: oom-killer don't use proportion of system-ram internally

KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-22T10:48:27Z

CAI Qian reported his kernel did hang-up if he ran fork intensive
workload and then invoke oom-killer.

The problem is, current oom calculation uses 0-1000 normalized value
(The unit is a permillage of system-ram). Its low precision make
a lot of same oom score. IOW, in his case, all processes have smaller
oom score than 1 and internal calculation round it to 1.

Thus oom-killer kill ineligible process. This regression is caused by
commit a63d83f427 (oom: badness heuristic rewrite).

The solution is, the internal calculation just use number of pages
instead of permillage of system-ram. And convert it to permillage
value at displaying time.

This patch doesn't change any ABI (included /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj)
even though current logic has a lot of my dislike thing.

Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
fs/proc/base.c | 13 ++++++----
include/linux/oom.h | 2 +-
mm/oom_kill.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 14def99..4a10763 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -479,14 +479,17 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_lstats_operations = {

static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer)
{
- unsigned long points = 0;
+ unsigned long points;
+ unsigned long ratio = 0;
+ unsigned long totalpages = totalram_pages + total_swap_pages + 1;

read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (pid_alive(task))
- points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL,
- totalram_pages + total_swap_pages);
+ if (pid_alive(task)) {
+ points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL, totalpages);
+ ratio = points * 1000 / totalpages;
+ }
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", points);
+ return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", ratio);
}

struct limit_names {
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 4952fb8..75b104c 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ enum oom_constraint {

extern int test_set_oom_score_adj(int new_val);

-extern unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
+extern unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long totalpages);
extern int try_set_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags);
extern void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_flags);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 797308b..cff8000 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -159,10 +159,11 @@ static bool oom_unkillable_task(struct task_struct *p,
* predictable as possible. The goal is to return the highest value for the
* task consuming the most memory to avoid subsequent oom failures.
*/
-unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
+unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long totalpages)
{
- int points;
+ unsigned long points;
+ unsigned long score_adj = 0;

if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask))
return 0;
@@ -194,33 +195,44 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
*/
points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + p->mm->nr_ptes;
points += get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
-
- points *= 1000;
- points /= totalpages;
task_unlock(p);

- /*
- * Root processes get 3% bonus, just like the __vm_enough_memory()
- * implementation used by LSMs.
- */
- if (task_euid(p) == 0)
- points -= 30;
+ /* Root processes get 3% bonus. */
+ if (task_euid(p) == 0) {
+ if (points >= totalpages / 32)
+ points -= totalpages / 32;
+ else
+ points = 0;
+ }

/*
* /proc/pid/oom_score_adj ranges from -1000 to +1000 such that it may
* either completely disable oom killing or always prefer a certain
* task.
*/
- points += p->signal->oom_score_adj;
+ if (p->signal->oom_score_adj >= 0) {
+ score_adj = p->signal->oom_score_adj * (totalpages / 1000);
+ if (ULONG_MAX - points >= score_adj)
+ points += score_adj;
+ else
+ points = ULONG_MAX;
+ } else {
+ score_adj = -p->signal->oom_score_adj * (totalpages / 1000);
+ if (points >= score_adj)
+ points -= score_adj;
+ else
+ points = 0;
+ }

/*
* Never return 0 for an eligible task that may be killed since it's
* possible that no single user task uses more than 0.1% of memory and
* no single admin tasks uses more than 3.0%.
*/
- if (points <= 0)
- return 1;
- return (points < 1000) ? points : 1000;
+ if (!points)
+ points = 1;
+
+ return points;
}

/*
@@ -292,7 +304,7 @@ 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 int *ppoints,
+static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
unsigned long totalpages, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
const nodemask_t *nodemask)
{
@@ -301,7 +313,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
*ppoints = 0;

do_each_thread_reverse(g, p) {
- unsigned int points;
+ unsigned long points;

if (!p->mm)
continue;
@@ -332,7 +344,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
*/
if (p == current) {
chosen = p;
- *ppoints = 1000;
+ *ppoints = ULONG_MAX;
} else {
/*
* If this task is not being ptraced on exit,
@@ -463,14 +475,14 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
#undef K

static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
- unsigned int points, unsigned long totalpages,
+ unsigned long points, unsigned long totalpages,
struct mem_cgroup *mem, nodemask_t *nodemask,
const char *message)
{
struct task_struct *victim = p;
struct task_struct *child;
struct task_struct *t = p;
- unsigned int victim_points = 0;
+ unsigned long victim_points = 0;

if (printk_ratelimit())
dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, mem, nodemask);
@@ -485,7 +497,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
}

task_lock(p);
- pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %d or sacrifice child\n",
+ pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) points %lu or sacrifice child\n",
message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);
task_unlock(p);

@@ -497,7 +509,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
*/
do {
list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
- unsigned int child_points;
+ unsigned long child_points;

if (child->mm == p->mm)
continue;
@@ -544,7 +556,7 @@ static void check_panic_on_oom(enum oom_constraint constraint, gfp_t gfp_mask,
void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
unsigned long limit;
- unsigned int points = 0;
+ unsigned long points = 0;
struct task_struct *p;

/*
@@ -693,7 +705,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
struct task_struct *p;
unsigned long totalpages;
unsigned long freed = 0;
- unsigned int points;
+ unsigned long points;
enum oom_constraint constraint = CONSTRAINT_NONE;
int killed = 0;

--
1.7.3.1