Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:15:13 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 4/9 v2] oom: remove compulsory panic_on_oom mode

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:31:51 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:34:30 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:28:05 -0800 (PST)
> > David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > What do you think about making pagefaults use out_of_memory() directly and 
> > > > > respecting the sysctl_panic_on_oom settings?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think this patch is good. Because several memcg can
> > > > cause oom at the same time independently, system-wide oom locking is
> > > > unsuitable. BTW, what I doubt is much more fundamental thing.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > We want to lock all populated zones with ZONE_OOM_LOCKED to avoid 
> > > needlessly killing more than one task regardless of how many memcgs are 
> > > oom.
> > > 
> > Current implentation archive what memcg want. Why remove and destroy memcg ?
> > 
> It might be a bit off-topic, but memcg's check for last_oom_jiffies seems
> not to work well under heavy load, and pagefault_out_of_memory() causes
> global oom.
> 
> Step.1 make a memory cgroup directory and sed memory.limit_in_bytes to a small value
> 
>   > mkdir /cgroup/memory/test
>   > echo 1M >/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
> 
> Stem.2 run attached test program(which allocates memory and does fork recursively)
> 
>   > ./recursive_fork -c 8 -s `expr 1 \* 1024 \* 1024`
> 
> This causes not only memcg's oom, but also global oom(My machine has 8 CPUS).
> 
> ===
> [348090.121808] recursive_fork3 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=0
> [348090.121821] recursive_fork3 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
> [348090.121829] Pid: 22744, comm: recursive_fork3 Not tainted 2.6.32.8-00001-gb6cd517 #3
> [348090.121832] Call Trace:
> [348090.121849]  [<ffffffff810d6015>] oom_kill_process+0x86/0x295
> [348090.121855]  [<ffffffff810d64cf>] ? select_bad_process+0x63/0xf0
> [348090.121861]  [<ffffffff810d687a>] mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x69/0x87
> [348090.121870]  [<ffffffff811119c2>] __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x15f/0x1d4
> [348090.121876]  [<ffffffff811126bc>] mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x104/0x159
> [348090.121885]  [<ffffffff810edd9b>] handle_mm_fault+0x4ca/0x76c
> [348090.121895]  [<ffffffff8143419f>] ? do_page_fault+0x141/0x2da
> [348090.121904]  [<ffffffff81087286>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
> [348090.121910]  [<ffffffff8143419f>] ? do_page_fault+0x141/0x2da
> [348090.121915]  [<ffffffff8143431c>] do_page_fault+0x2be/0x2da
> [348090.121922]  [<ffffffff81432115>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
> [348090.121929] Task in /test killed as a result of limit of /test
> [348090.121936] memory: usage 1024kB, limit 1024kB, failcnt 279335
> [348090.121940] memory+swap: usage 4260kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0
> [348090.121943] Mem-Info:
> [348090.121947] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
> [348090.121952] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121956] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121960] CPU    2: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121963] CPU    3: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121967] CPU    4: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121970] CPU    5: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121974] CPU    6: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121977] CPU    7: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> [348090.121980] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
> [348090.121984] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  19
> [348090.121988] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  11
> [348090.121992] CPU    2: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 178
> [348090.121995] CPU    3: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
> [348090.121999] CPU    4: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 182
> [348090.122002] CPU    5: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  29
> [348090.122006] CPU    6: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
> [348090.122009] CPU    7: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
> [348090.122012] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
> [348090.122016] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  54
> [348090.122020] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 109
> [348090.122023] CPU    2: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 149
> [348090.122027] CPU    3: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 119
> [348090.122030] CPU    4: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 123
> [348090.122033] CPU    5: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 145
> [348090.122037] CPU    6: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  54
> [348090.122041] CPU    7: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  95
> [348090.122049] active_anon:5354 inactive_anon:805 isolated_anon:0
> [348090.122051]  active_file:18317 inactive_file:57785 isolated_file:0
> [348090.122053]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:211 unstable:0
> [348090.122054]  free:3324478 slab_reclaimable:18860 slab_unreclaimable:13472
> [348090.122056]  mapped:4315 shmem:63 pagetables:1098 bounce:0
> [348090.122059] Node 0 DMA free:15676kB min:12kB low:12kB high:16kB active_anon:0kB inacti
> ve_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(
> file):0kB present:15100kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_re
> claimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:16kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:
> 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> [348090.122076] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3204 13932 13932
> [348090.122083] Node 0 DMA32 free:2773244kB min:3472kB low:4340kB high:5208kB active_anon:
> 0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB
>  isolated(file):0kB present:3281248kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem
> :0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:
> 0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> [348090.122100] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 10728 10728
> [348090.122108] Node 0 Normal free:10508992kB min:11624kB low:14528kB high:17436kB active_
> anon:21416kB inactive_anon:3220kB active_file:73268kB inactive_file:231140kB unevictable:0
> kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:10985984kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writebac
> k:844kB mapped:17260kB shmem:252kB slab_reclaimable:75440kB slab_unreclaimable:53872kB ker
> nel_stack:1224kB pagetables:4392kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned
> :0 all_unreclaimable? no
> [348090.122125] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> [348090.122788] Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 1*8kB 3*16kB 2*32kB 3*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 2*102
> 4kB 2*2048kB 2*4096kB = 15676kB
> [348090.122853] Node 0 DMA32: 11*4kB 6*8kB 2*16kB 4*32kB 6*64kB 13*128kB 4*256kB 6*512kB 6
> *1024kB 4*2048kB 672*4096kB = 2773244kB
> [348090.122915] Node 0 Normal: 188*4kB 128*8kB 214*16kB 409*32kB 107*64kB 18*128kB 4*256kB
>  1*512kB 2*1024kB 0*2048kB 2558*4096kB = 10508592kB
> [348090.122936] 76936 total pagecache pages
> [348090.122940] 816 pages in swap cache
> [348090.122943] Swap cache stats: add 7851711, delete 7850894, find 3676243/4307445
> [348090.122946] Free swap  = 1995492kB
> [348090.122949] Total swap = 2000888kB
> [348090.300467] 3670016 pages RAM
> [348090.300471] 153596 pages reserved
> [348090.300474] 38486 pages shared
> [348090.300476] 162081 pages non-shared
> [348090.300482] Memory cgroup out of memory: kill process 22072 (recursive_fork3) score 12
> 48 or a child
> [348090.300486] Killed process 22072 (recursive_fork3)
> [348090.300524] Kernel panic - not syncing: out of memory from page fault. panic_on_oom is
>  selected.
> [348090.300526]
> [348090.311038] Pid: 22744, comm: recursive_fork3 Not tainted 2.6.32.8-00001-gb6cd517 #3
> [348090.311050] Call Trace:
> [348090.311073]  [<ffffffff8142efa4>] panic+0x75/0x133
> [348090.311090]  [<ffffffff810d67d2>] pagefault_out_of_memory+0x50/0x8f
> [348090.311104]  [<ffffffff81036a2d>] mm_fault_error+0x37/0xba
> [348090.311117]  [<ffffffff8143428d>] do_page_fault+0x22f/0x2da
> [348090.311130]  [<ffffffff81432115>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
> ===
> 
> I take a kdump by enabling panic_on_oom, and compared the last_oom_jiffies and jiffies.
> 
> crash> struct mem_cgroup.last_oom_jiffies 0xffffc90013514000
>   last_oom_jiffies = 4642757419,
> crash> p jiffies
> jiffies = $10 = 4642757607
> 
> I agree this is a extreme example, but this is not a desirable behavior.
> Changing "HZ/10" in mem_cgroup_last_oom_called() to "HZ/2" or some would fix
> this case, but it's not a essential fix.

Yes, current design is not the best thing, my bad.
(I had to band-aid against unexpected panic in pagefault_out_of_memory.)

But tweaking that vaule seems not promissing.

Essential fix is better. The best fix is don't call oom-killer in
pagefault_out_of_memory. So, returning other than VM_FAULT_OOM is
the best, I think. But hmm...we don't have VM_FAULT_AGAIN etc..
So, please avoid quick fix. 

One thing I can think of is sleep-and-retry in try_charge() if PF_MEMDIE
is not set. (But..By this, memcg will never return faiulre in page fault.
but it may sound reasonable.)


Thanks,
-Kame

> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daisuke Nishimura.
> 

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