Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap

[Michal Hocko]

Forgot to CC Hugh.

Hugh, Andrew, do you see this could cause any problem wrt.
ksm/khugepaged exit path?

On Mon 26-06-17 15:03:46, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> David has noticed that the oom killer might kill additional tasks while
> the existing victim hasn't terminated yet because the oom_reaper marks
> the curent victim MMF_OOM_SKIP too early when mm->mm_users dropped down
> to 0. The race is as follows
> 
> oom_reap_task				do_exit
> 					  exit_mm
>   __oom_reap_task_mm
> 					    mmput
> 					      __mmput
>     mmget_not_zero # fails
>     						exit_mmap # frees memory
>   set_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP)
> 
> Currently we are try to reduce a risk of this race by taking oom_lock
> and wait for out_of_memory sleep while holding the lock to give the
> victim some time to exit. This is quite suboptimal approach because
> there is no guarantee the victim (especially a large one) will manage
> to unmap its address space and free enough memory to the particular oom
> domain which needs a memory (e.g. a specific NUMA node).
> 
> Fix this problem by allowing __oom_reap_task_mm and __mmput path to
> race. __oom_reap_task_mm is basically MADV_DONTNEED and that is allowed
> to run in parallel with other unmappers (hence the mmap_sem for read).
> The only tricky part is we have to exclude page tables tear down and all
> operations which modify the address space in the __mmput path. exit_mmap
> doesn't expect any other users so it doesn't use any locking. Nothing
> really forbids us to use mmap_sem for write, though. In fact we are
> already relying on this lock earlier in the __mmput path to synchronize
> with ksm and khugepaged.
> 
> Take the exclusive mmap_sem when calling free_pgtables and destroying
> vmas to sync with __oom_reap_task_mm which take the lock for read. All
> other operations can safely race with the parallel unmap.
> 
> Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 26db62f179d1 ("oom: keep mm of the killed task available")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> I am sending this as an RFC because I am not yet sure I haven't missed
> something subtle here but the appoach should work in principle. I have
> run it through some of my OOM stress tests to see if anything blows up
> and it all went smoothly.
> 
> The issue has been brought up by David [1]. There were some attempts to
> address it in oom proper [2][3] but the first one would cause problems
> on their own [4] while the later is just too hairy.
> 
> Thoughts, objections, alternatives?
> 
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1706141632100.93071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201706171417.JHG48401.JOQLHMFSVOOFtF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201706220053.v5M0rmOU078764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201706210217.v5L2HAZc081021@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>  mm/mmap.c     |  7 +++++++
>  mm/oom_kill.c | 40 ++--------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 3bd5ecd20d4d..253808e716dc 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -2962,6 +2962,11 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	/* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */
>  	unmap_vmas(&tlb, vma, 0, -1);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * oom reaper might race with exit_mmap so make sure we won't free
> +	 * page tables or unmap VMAs under its feet
> +	 */
> +	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  	free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, USER_PGTABLES_CEILING);
>  	tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, 0, -1);
>  
> @@ -2974,7 +2979,9 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  			nr_accounted += vma_pages(vma);
>  		vma = remove_vma(vma);
>  	}
> +	mm->mmap = NULL;
>  	vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
> +	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  }
>  
>  /* Insert vm structure into process list sorted by address
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 0e2c925e7826..5dc0ff22d567 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -472,36 +472,8 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  	bool ret = true;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * We have to make sure to not race with the victim exit path
> -	 * and cause premature new oom victim selection:
> -	 * __oom_reap_task_mm		exit_mm
> -	 *   mmget_not_zero
> -	 *				  mmput
> -	 *				    atomic_dec_and_test
> -	 *				  exit_oom_victim
> -	 *				[...]
> -	 *				out_of_memory
> -	 *				  select_bad_process
> -	 *				    # no TIF_MEMDIE task selects new victim
> -	 *  unmap_page_range # frees some memory
> -	 */
> -	mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
> -
> -	if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
> -		ret = false;
> -		goto unlock_oom;
> -	}
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * increase mm_users only after we know we will reap something so
> -	 * that the mmput_async is called only when we have reaped something
> -	 * and delayed __mmput doesn't matter that much
> -	 */
> -	if (!mmget_not_zero(mm)) {
> -		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> -		goto unlock_oom;
> -	}
> +	if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem))
> +		return false;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Tell all users of get_user/copy_from_user etc... that the content
> @@ -538,14 +510,6 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  			K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES)));
>  	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Drop our reference but make sure the mmput slow path is called from a
> -	 * different context because we shouldn't risk we get stuck there and
> -	 * put the oom_reaper out of the way.
> -	 */
> -	mmput_async(mm);
> -unlock_oom:
> -	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
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