[PATCH] memcg: fix livelock at oom.

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

867578cb "memcg: fix oom kill behavior" introduced oom_lock counter
which is incremented by mem_cgroup_oom_lock when we are about to handle
memcg OOM situation. mem_cgroup_handle_oom falls back to a sleep if
oom_lock > 1 to prevent from multiple oom kills at the same time.
The counter is then decremented by mem_cgroup_oom_unlock called from the
same function.

This works correctly but it can lead to serious starvations when we
have many processes triggering OOM.

example.

Make a hierarchy of memcg, which has 300MB memory+swap limit.

 %cgcreate -g memory:A
 %cgset -r memory.use_hierarchy=1 A
 %cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=300M A
 %cgset -r memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes=300M A
 %cgcreate -g memory:A/B
 %cgcreate -g memory:A/C
 %cgcreate -g memory:A/B/X
 %cgcreate -g memory:A/B/Y

Then, running folloing program under A/B/X.
 %cgexec -g memory:A/B/X ./fork
==
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int i;
        int status;

        for (i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
                if (fork() == 0) {
                        char *c;
                        c = malloc(1024*1024);
                        memset(c, 0, 1024*1024);
                        sleep(20);
                        fprintf(stderr, "[%d]\n", i);
                        exit(0);
                }
                printf("%d\n", i);
                waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG);
        }
        while (1) {
                int ret;
                ret = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG);

                if (ret == -1)
                        break;
                if (!ret)
                        sleep(1);
        }
        return 0;
}
==

This forks a process and the child malloc(1M). Then, after forking 300
childrens, the memcg goes int OOM. Expected behavior is oom-killer
will kill process and make progress. But, 300 children will try to get
oom_lock and oom kill...and the program seems not to make progress.

The reason is that memcg invokes OOM-Kill when the counter oom_lock is 0.
But if many process runs, it never goes down to 0 because it's incremanted
before all processes quits sleep by previous oom-lock, which decremetns
oom_lock.

This patch fixes the behavior. This patch makes the oom-hierarchy should
have only one lock value 1/0. For example, in following hierarchy,

	A
       /
      B
     / \
    C   D

When C goes into OOM because of limit by B, set B->oom_lock=1
After that, when A goes into OOM because of limit by A,
clear B->oom_lock as 0 and set A->oom_lock=1.

At unlocking, the ancestor which has ()->oom_lock=1 will be cleared.

After this, above program will do fork 5000 procs with 4000+ oom-killer.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Changelog:
  - fixed under_oom counter reset.
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e013b8e..5f9661b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	 * Should the accounting and control be hierarchical, per subtree?
 	 */
 	bool use_hierarchy;
-	atomic_t	oom_lock;
+	int		oom_lock;
+	atomic_t	under_oom;
 	atomic_t	refcnt;
 
 	unsigned int	swappiness;
@@ -1801,36 +1802,63 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
 }
 
 /*
- * Check OOM-Killer is already running under our hierarchy.
+ * Check whether OOM-Killer is already running under our hierarchy.
  * If someone is running, return false.
  */
-static bool mem_cgroup_oom_lock(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
+static bool mem_cgroup_oom_lock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
-	int x, lock_count = 0;
 	struct mem_cgroup *iter;
+	bool ret;
 
-	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, mem) {
-		x = atomic_inc_return(&iter->oom_lock);
-		lock_count = max(x, lock_count);
+	/*
+	 * If an ancestor (including this memcg) is the owner of OOM Lock.
+	 * return false;
+	 */
+	for (iter = memcg; iter != NULL; iter = parent_mem_cgroup(iter)) {
+		if (iter->oom_lock)
+			break;
+		if (!iter->use_hierarchy) {
+			iter = NULL;
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 
-	if (lock_count == 1)
-		return true;
-	return false;
+	if (iter)
+		return false;
+	/*
+	 * Make the owner of OOM lock to be the highest ancestor of hierarchy
+	 * under OOM. IOW, move children's OOM owner information to this memcg
+	 * if a child is owner. In this case, an OOM killer is running and
+	 * we return false. But make this memcg as owner of oom-lock.
+	 */
+	ret = true;
+	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, memcg) {
+		if (iter->oom_lock) {
+			iter->oom_lock = 0;
+			ret = false;
+		}
+		atomic_set(&iter->under_oom, 1);
+	}
+	/* Make this memcg as the owner of OOM lock. */
+	memcg->oom_lock = 1;
+	return ret;
 }
 
-static int mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
+static void mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
-	struct mem_cgroup *iter;
+	struct mem_cgroup *iter, *iter2;
 
-	/*
-	 * When a new child is created while the hierarchy is under oom,
-	 * mem_cgroup_oom_lock() may not be called. We have to use
-	 * atomic_add_unless() here.
-	 */
-	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, mem)
-		atomic_add_unless(&iter->oom_lock, -1, 0);
-	return 0;
+	for (iter = memcg; iter != NULL; iter = parent_mem_cgroup(iter)) {
+		if (iter->oom_lock) {
+			iter->oom_lock = 0;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	BUG_ON(!iter);
+
+	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter2, iter)
+		atomic_set(&iter2->under_oom, 0);
+	return;
 }
 
 
@@ -1875,7 +1903,7 @@ static void memcg_wakeup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 
 static void memcg_oom_recover(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 {
-	if (mem && atomic_read(&mem->oom_lock))
+	if (mem && atomic_read(&mem->under_oom))
 		memcg_wakeup_oom(mem);
 }
 
@@ -1916,7 +1944,8 @@ bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t mask)
 		finish_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait);
 	}
 	mutex_lock(&memcg_oom_mutex);
-	mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(mem);
+	if (locked)
+		mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(mem);
 	memcg_wakeup_oom(mem);
 	mutex_unlock(&memcg_oom_mutex);
 
@@ -4584,7 +4613,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_register_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 	list_add(&event->list, &memcg->oom_notify);
 
 	/* already in OOM ? */
-	if (atomic_read(&memcg->oom_lock))
+	if (atomic_read(&memcg->under_oom))
 		eventfd_signal(eventfd, 1);
 	mutex_unlock(&memcg_oom_mutex);
 
@@ -4619,7 +4648,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_read(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 
 	cb->fill(cb, "oom_kill_disable", mem->oom_kill_disable);
 
-	if (atomic_read(&mem->oom_lock))
+	if (atomic_read(&mem->under_oom))
 		cb->fill(cb, "under_oom", 1);
 	else
 		cb->fill(cb, "under_oom", 0);
-- 
1.7.4.1



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