Re: [PATCH for 3.2] memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstackon OOM

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi guys,

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:09:58PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
> >> But i'm sure of one thing - when problem occurs, nothing is able to
> >> access hard drives (every process which tries it is freezed until
> >> problem is resolved or server is rebooted).
> >
> >I would be really interesting to see what those tasks are blocked on.
> 
> I'm trying to get it, stay tuned :)
> 
> Today i noticed one bug, not 100% sure it is related to 'your' patch
> but i didn't seen this before. I noticed that i have lots of cgroups
> which cannot be removed - if i do 'rmdir <cgroup_directory>', it
> just hangs and never complete. Even more, it's not possible to
> access the whole cgroup filesystem until i kill that rmdir
> (anything, which tries it, just hangs). All unremoveable cgroups has
> this in 'memory.oom_control': oom_kill_disable 0 under_oom 1

Somebody acquires the OOM wait reference to the memcg and marks it
under oom but then does not call into mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() to
clean up.  That's why under_oom is set and the rmdir waits for
outstanding references.

> And, yes, 'tasks' file is empty.

It's not a kernel thread that does it because all kernel-context
handle_mm_fault() are annotated properly, which means the task must be
userspace and, since tasks is empty, have exited before synchronizing.

Can you try with the following patch on top?

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 5db0490..9a0b152 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -846,17 +846,6 @@ static noinline int
 mm_fault_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 	       unsigned long address, unsigned int fault)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Pagefault was interrupted by SIGKILL. We have no reason to
-	 * continue pagefault.
-	 */
-	if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
-		if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY))
-			up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-		if (!(error_code & PF_USER))
-			no_context(regs, error_code, address);
-		return 1;
-	}
 	if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
 		return 0;
 
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