linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with cpuset update

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Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 19:24:24 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race
 with cpuset update

On Thu 18-05-17 11:57:55, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > > Nope. The OOM in a cpuset gets the process doing the alloc killed. Or what
> > > that changed?
> 
> !!!!!
> 
> > >
> > > At this point you have messed up royally and nothing is going to rescue
> > > you anyways. OOM or not does not matter anymore. The app will fail.
> >
> > Not really. If you can trick the system to _think_ that the intersection
> > between mempolicy and the cpuset is empty then the OOM killer might
> > trigger an innocent task rather than the one which tricked it into that
> > situation.
> 
> See above. OOM Kill in a cpuset does not kill an innocent task but a task
> that does an allocation in that specific context meaning a task in that
> cpuset that also has a memory policty.

No, the oom killer will chose the largest task in the specific NUMA
domain. If you just fail such an allocation then a page fault would get
VM_FAULT_OOM and pagefault_out_of_memory would kill a task regardless of
the cpusets.
 
> Regardless of that the point earlier was that the moving logic can avoid
> creating temporary situations of empty sets of nodes by analysing the
> memory policies etc and only performing moves when doing so is safe.

How are you going to do that in a raceless way? Moreover the whole
discussion is about _failing_ allocations on an empty cpuset and
mempolicy intersection.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs