[PATCH] memcg: handle panic_on_oom=always case v2

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

Documenation is updated.
==
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now, if panic_on_oom=2, the whole system panics even if the oom happend
in some special situation (as cpuset, mempolicy....).
Then, panic_on_oom=2 means painc_on_oom_always.

Now, memcg doesn't check panic_on_oom flag. This patch adds a check.

BTW, how it's useful ?

kdump+panic_on_oom=2 is the last tool to investigate what happens in oom-ed
system. When a task is killed, the sysytem recovers and there will be few hint
to know what happnes. In mission critical system, oom should never happen.
Then, panic_on_oom=2+kdump is useful to avoid next OOM by knowing
precise information via snapshot.

TODO:
 - For memcg, it's for isolate system's memory usage, oom-notiifer and
   freeze_at_oom (or rest_at_oom) should be implemented. Then, management
   daemon can do similar jobs (as kdump) or taking snapshot per cgroup.

Changelg:
 - rewrote documentations.

CC: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |    5 ++++-
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt      |    5 ++++-
 mm/oom_kill.c                    |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11.orig/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ list.
 NOTE: Reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set any
 limits on the root cgroup.
 
+Note2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic.
+
 2. Locking
 
 The memory controller uses the following hierarchy
@@ -379,7 +381,8 @@ The feature can be disabled by
 NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other
 cgroups created below it.
 
-NOTE2: This feature can be enabled/disabled per subtree.
+NOTE2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic in
+case of an oom event in any cgroup.
 
 7. Soft limits
 
Index: mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11.orig/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -573,11 +573,14 @@ Because other nodes' memory may be free.
 may be not fatal yet.
 
 If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the
-above-mentioned.
+above-mentioned. Even oom happens under memory cgroup, the whole
+system panics.
 
 The default value is 0.
 1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either
 according to your policy of failover.
+panic_on_oom=2+kdump gives you very strong tool to investigate
+why oom happens. You can get snapshot.
 
 =============================================================
 
Index: mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/mm/oom_kill.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11.orig/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ mmotm-2.6.33-Feb11/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -471,6 +471,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem
 	unsigned long points = 0;
 	struct task_struct *p;
 
+	if (sysctl_panic_on_oom == 2)
+		panic("out of memory(memcg). panic_on_oom is selected.\n");
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 retry:
 	p = select_bad_process(&points, mem);

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