[PATCH v13 6/7] mm, oom, docs: describe the cgroup-aware OOM killer

[Roman Gushchin]

Document the cgroup-aware OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
 Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 779211fbb69f..c80a147f94b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ v1 is available under Documentation/cgroup-v1/.
        5-2-1. Memory Interface Files
        5-2-2. Usage Guidelines
        5-2-3. Memory Ownership
+       5-2-4. OOM Killer
      5-3. IO
        5-3-1. IO Interface Files
        5-3-2. Writeback
@@ -1026,6 +1027,28 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 	high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's
 	utility is limited to providing the final safety net.
 
+  memory.oom_group
+
+	A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
+	cgroups.  The default is "0".
+
+	If set, OOM killer will consider the memory cgroup as an
+	indivisible memory consumers and compare it with other memory
+	consumers by it's memory footprint.
+	If such memory cgroup is selected as an OOM victim, all
+	processes belonging to it or it's descendants will be killed.
+
+	This applies to system-wide OOM conditions and reaching
+	the hard memory limit of the cgroup and their ancestor.
+	If OOM condition happens in a descendant cgroup with it's own
+	memory limit, the memory cgroup can't be considered
+	as an OOM victim, and OOM killer will not kill all belonging
+	tasks.
+
+	Also, OOM killer respects the /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value -1000,
+	and will never kill the unkillable task, even if memory.oom_group
+	is set.
+
   memory.events
 	A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
 	The following entries are defined.  Unless specified
@@ -1229,6 +1252,41 @@ to be accessed repeatedly by other cgroups, it may make sense to use
 POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to relinquish the ownership of memory areas
 belonging to the affected files to ensure correct memory ownership.
 
+OOM Killer
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Cgroup v2 memory controller implements a cgroup-aware OOM killer.
+It means that it treats cgroups as first class OOM entities.
+
+Under OOM conditions the memory controller tries to make the best
+choice of a victim, looking for a memory cgroup with the largest
+memory footprint, considering leaf cgroups and cgroups with the
+memory.oom_group option set, which are considered to be an indivisible
+memory consumers.
+
+By default, OOM killer will kill the biggest task in the selected
+memory cgroup. A user can change this behavior by enabling
+the per-cgroup memory.oom_group option. If set, it causes
+the OOM killer to kill all processes attached to the cgroup,
+except processes with oom_score_adj set to -1000.
+
+This affects both system- and cgroup-wide OOMs. For a cgroup-wide OOM
+the memory controller considers only cgroups belonging to the sub-tree
+of the OOM'ing cgroup.
+
+The root cgroup is treated as a leaf memory cgroup, so it's compared
+with other leaf memory cgroups and cgroups with oom_group option set.
+
+If there are no cgroups with the enabled memory controller,
+the OOM killer is using the "traditional" process-based approach.
+
+Please, note that memory charges are not migrating if tasks
+are moved between different memory cgroups. Moving tasks with
+significant memory footprint may affect OOM victim selection logic.
+If it's a case, please, consider creating a common ancestor for
+the source and destination memory cgroups and enabling oom_group
+on ancestor layer.
+
 
 IO
 --
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2.14.3