linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs, mm: account filp and names caches to kmemcg

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:28:13 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs, mm: account filp and names caches to kmemcg

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri 27-10-17 13:50:47, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>> > Why is OOM-disabling a thing? Why isn't this simply a "kill everything
>> > else before you kill me"? It's crashing the kernel in trying to
>> > protect a userspace application. How is that not insane?
>>
>> In parallel to other discussion, I think we should definitely move
>> from "completely oom-disabled" semantics to something similar to "kill
>> me last" semantics. Is there any objection to this idea?
>
> Could you be more specific what you mean?
>

I get the impression that the main reason behind the complexity of
oom-killer is allowing processes to be protected from the oom-killer
i.e. disabling oom-killing a process by setting
/proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj to -1000. So, instead of oom-disabling, add
an interface which will let users/admins to set a process to be
oom-killed as a last resort.