Re: [patch -mm 4/9 v2] oom: remove compulsory panic_on_oom mode

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:58:05 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'll eliminate pagefault_out_of_memory() and get it to use 
> > out_of_memory() by only checking for constrained_alloc() when
> > gfp_mask != 0.
> > 
> 
> What do you think about making pagefaults use out_of_memory() directly and 
> respecting the sysctl_panic_on_oom settings?
> 

I don't think this patch is good. Because several memcg can
cause oom at the same time independently, system-wide oom locking is
unsuitable. BTW, what I doubt is much more fundamental thing.

What I doubt at most is "why VM_FAULT_OOM is necessary ? or why we have
to call oom_killer when page fault returns it".
Is there someone who returns VM_FAULT_OOM without calling page allocator
and oom-killer helps something in such situation ?

If returning VM_FAULT_OOM without caliing usual page allocator, oom-killer
will be never help, I guess.

If we don't have that, we don't have to implement pagefault_out_of_memory.

Hmm ?

Thanks,
-Kame


> This removes the check for a parallel memcg oom killing since we can 
> guarantee that's not going to happen if we take ZONE_OOM_LOCKED for all 
> populated zones (nobody is currently executing the oom killer) and no 
> tasks have TIF_MEMDIE set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
>  	return false;
>  }
>  
> -extern bool mem_cgroup_oom_called(struct task_struct *task);
>  void mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped(struct page *page, int val);
>  unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
>  						gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
> @@ -258,11 +257,6 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> -static inline bool mem_cgroup_oom_called(struct task_struct *task)
> -{
> -	return false;
> -}
> -
>  static inline int
>  mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -200,7 +200,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>  	 * Should the accounting and control be hierarchical, per subtree?
>  	 */
>  	bool use_hierarchy;
> -	unsigned long	last_oom_jiffies;
>  	atomic_t	refcnt;
>  
>  	unsigned int	swappiness;
> @@ -1234,34 +1233,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
>  	return total;
>  }
>  
> -bool mem_cgroup_oom_called(struct task_struct *task)
> -{
> -	bool ret = false;
> -	struct mem_cgroup *mem;
> -	struct mm_struct *mm;
> -
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> -	mm = task->mm;
> -	if (!mm)
> -		mm = &init_mm;
> -	mem = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> -	if (mem && time_before(jiffies, mem->last_oom_jiffies + HZ/10))
> -		ret = true;
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
> -	return ret;
> -}
> -
> -static int record_last_oom_cb(struct mem_cgroup *mem, void *data)
> -{
> -	mem->last_oom_jiffies = jiffies;
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static void record_last_oom(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
> -{
> -	mem_cgroup_walk_tree(mem, NULL, record_last_oom_cb);
> -}
> -
>  /*
>   * Currently used to update mapped file statistics, but the routine can be
>   * generalized to update other statistics as well.
> @@ -1549,10 +1520,8 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  		}
>  
>  		if (!nr_retries--) {
> -			if (oom) {
> +			if (oom)
>  				mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask);
> -				record_last_oom(mem_over_limit);
> -			}
>  			goto nomem;
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -2408,8 +2377,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>  
>  /*
>   * A call to try to shrink memory usage on charge failure at shmem's swapin.
> - * Calling hierarchical_reclaim is not enough because we should update
> - * last_oom_jiffies to prevent pagefault_out_of_memory from invoking global OOM.
>   * Moreover considering hierarchy, we should reclaim from the mem_over_limit,
>   * not from the memcg which this page would be charged to.
>   * try_charge_swapin does all of these works properly.
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -490,29 +490,6 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
>  	return oom_kill_task(victim);
>  }
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> -void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> -{
> -	unsigned long points = 0;
> -	struct task_struct *p;
> -
> -	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> -retry:
> -	p = select_bad_process(&points, mem, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL);
> -	if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
> -		goto out;
> -
> -	if (!p)
> -		p = current;
> -
> -	if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, 0, points, mem,
> -				"Memory cgroup out of memory"))
> -		goto retry;
> -out:
> -	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> -}
> -#endif
> -
>  static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(oom_notify_list);
>  
>  int register_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
> @@ -578,6 +555,70 @@ void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> + * Try to acquire the oom killer lock for all system zones.  Returns zero if a
> + * parallel oom killing is taking place, otherwise locks all zones and returns
> + * non-zero.
> + */
> +static int try_set_system_oom(void)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone;
> +	int ret = 1;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&zone_scan_lock);
> +	for_each_populated_zone(zone)
> +		if (zone_is_oom_locked(zone)) {
> +			ret = 0;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +	for_each_populated_zone(zone)
> +		zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED);
> +out:
> +	spin_unlock(&zone_scan_lock);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Clears ZONE_OOM_LOCKED for all system zones so that failed allocation
> + * attempts or page faults may now recall the oom killer, if necessary.
> + */
> +static void clear_system_oom(void)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&zone_scan_lock);
> +	for_each_populated_zone(zone)
> +		zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED);
> +	spin_unlock(&zone_scan_lock);
> +}
> +
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> +void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> +	unsigned long points = 0;
> +	struct task_struct *p;
> +
> +	if (!try_set_system_oom())
> +		return;
> +	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +retry:
> +	p = select_bad_process(&points, mem, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL);
> +	if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	if (!p)
> +		p = current;
> +
> +	if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, 0, points, mem,
> +				"Memory cgroup out of memory"))
> +		goto retry;
> +out:
> +	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	clear_system_oom();
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +/*
>   * Must be called with tasklist_lock held for read.
>   */
>  static void __out_of_memory(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> @@ -612,46 +653,9 @@ retry:
>  		goto retry;
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * pagefault handler calls into here because it is out of memory but
> - * doesn't know exactly how or why.
> - */
> -void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
> -{
> -	unsigned long freed = 0;
> -
> -	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
> -	if (freed > 0)
> -		/* Got some memory back in the last second. */
> -		return;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * If this is from memcg, oom-killer is already invoked.
> -	 * and not worth to go system-wide-oom.
> -	 */
> -	if (mem_cgroup_oom_called(current))
> -		goto rest_and_return;
> -
> -	if (sysctl_panic_on_oom)
> -		panic("out of memory from page fault. panic_on_oom is selected.\n");
> -
> -	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> -	/* unknown gfp_mask and order */
> -	__out_of_memory(0, 0, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL);
> -	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * Give "p" a good chance of killing itself before we
> -	 * retry to allocate memory.
> -	 */
> -rest_and_return:
> -	if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))
> -		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> -}
> -
>  /**
>   * out_of_memory - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory
> - * @zonelist: zonelist pointer
> + * @zonelist: zonelist pointer passed to page allocator
>   * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags
>   * @order: amount of memory being requested as a power of 2
>   * @nodemask: nodemask passed to page allocator
> @@ -665,7 +669,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  		int order, nodemask_t *nodemask)
>  {
>  	unsigned long freed = 0;
> -	enum oom_constraint constraint;
> +	enum oom_constraint constraint = CONSTRAINT_NONE;
>  
>  	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
>  	if (freed > 0)
> @@ -681,7 +685,8 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	 * Check if there were limitations on the allocation (only relevant for
>  	 * NUMA) that may require different handling.
>  	 */
> -	constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask, nodemask);
> +	if (zonelist)
> +		constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask, nodemask);
>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>  	if (unlikely(sysctl_panic_on_oom)) {
>  		/*
> @@ -691,6 +696,7 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  		 */
>  		if (constraint == CONSTRAINT_NONE) {
>  			dump_header(NULL, gfp_mask, order, NULL);
> +			read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>  			panic("Out of memory: panic_on_oom is enabled\n");
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -704,3 +710,17 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))
>  		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
>  }
> +
> +/*
> + * The pagefault handler calls here because it is out of memory, so kill a
> + * memory-hogging task.  If a populated zone has ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set, a parallel
> + * oom killing is already in progress so do nothing.  If a task is found with
> + * TIF_MEMDIE set, it has been killed so do nothing and allow it to exit.
> + */
> +void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
> +{
> +	if (!try_set_system_oom())
> +		return;
> +	out_of_memory(NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
> +	clear_system_oom();
> +}
> 
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