Re: [RFC] panic_on_oom_timeout

[Tetsuo Handa]

Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 11-06-15 22:12:40, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > > The moom_work used by SysRq-f sometimes cannot be executed
> > > > because some work which is processed before the moom_work is processed is
> > > > stalled for unbounded amount of time due to looping inside the memory
> > > > allocator.
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't wq code pick up another worker thread to execute the work.
> > > There is also a rescuer thread as the last resort AFAIR.
> > > 
> > 
> > Below is an example of moom_work lockup in v4.1-rc7 from
> > http://I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp/tmp/serial-20150611.txt.xz
> > 
> > ----------
> > [  171.710406] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
> > [  171.720193] kworker/2:9 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
> > [  171.722699] kworker/2:9 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
> > [  171.724603] CPU: 2 PID: 11016 Comm: kworker/2:9 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7 #3
> > [  171.726817] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/31/2013
> > [  171.729727] Workqueue: events moom_callback
> > (...snipped...)
> > [  258.302016] sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
> 
> Wow, this is a _lot_. I was aware that workqueues might be overloaded.
> We have seen that in real loads and that led to
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141456398425553 wher the rescuer
> didn't handle pending work properly. I thought that the fix helped in
> the end. But 1.5 minutes is indeed unexpected for me.

Excuse me, but you misunderstood the log. The logs for uptime = 171 and
uptime = 258 are cases where SysRq-f (indicated by "sysrq: SysRq : Manual
OOM execution" message) immediately invoked the OOM killer (indicated by
"invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0" message).

What you should check is uptime > 301. Until I do SysRq-b at uptime = 707,
the "sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution" message is printed but the
"invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0" message is not
printed. During this period (so far 5 minutes, presumably forever),
moom_callback() remained pending.

> 
> This of course disqualifies DELAYED_WORK for anything that has at least
> reasonable time expectations which is the case here.
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