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

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 10-07-13 18:25:06, azurIt wrote:
> >> Now i realized that i forgot to remove UID from that cgroup before
> >> trying to remove it, so cgroup cannot be removed anyway (we are using
> >> third party cgroup called cgroup-uid from Andrea Righi, which is able
> >> to associate all user's processes with target cgroup). Look here for
> >> cgroup-uid patch:
> >> https://www.develer.com/~arighi/linux/patches/cgroup-uid/cgroup-uid-v8.patch
> >> 
> >> ANYWAY, i'm 101% sure that 'tasks' file was empty and 'under_oom' was
> >> permanently '1'.
> >
> >This is really strange. Could you post the whole diff against stable
> >tree you are using (except for grsecurity stuff and the above cgroup-uid
> >patch)?
> 
> 
> Here are all patches which i applied to kernel 3.2.48 in my last test:
> http://watchdog.sk/lkml/patches3/

The two patches from Johannes seem correct.

>From a quick look even grsecurity patchset shouldn't interfere as it
doesn't seem to put any code between handle_mm_fault and mm_fault_error
and there also doesn't seem to be any new handle_mm_fault call sites.

But I cannot tell there aren't other code paths which would lead to a
memcg charge, thus oom, without proper FAULT_FLAG_KERNEL handling.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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