linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 145/190] oom: improve oom disable handling

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Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 04:59:55 +0000
From:   Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 145/190] oom: improve oom disable handling

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

[ Upstream commit d75da004c708c9fca7b53f7da293a295522414d9 ]

Tetsuo has reported that sysrq triggered OOM killer will print a
misleading information when no tasks are selected:

  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  Out of memory: Kill process 4468 ((agetty)) score 0 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 4468 ((agetty)) total-vm:43704kB, anon-rss:1760kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  Out of memory: Kill process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) score 0 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 4469 (systemd-cgroups) total-vm:10704kB, anon-rss:120kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled
  sysrq: SysRq : Manual OOM execution
  sysrq: OOM request ignored because killer is disabled

The real reason is that there are no eligible tasks for the OOM killer
to select but since commit 7c5f64f84483 ("mm: oom: deduplicate victim
selection code for memcg and global oom") the semantic of out_of_memory
has changed without updating moom_callback.

This patch updates moom_callback to tell that no task was eligible which
is the case for both oom killer disabled and no eligible tasks.  In
order to help distinguish first case from the second add printk to both
oom_killer_{enable,disable}.  This information is useful on its own
because it might help debugging potential memory allocation failures.

Fixes: 7c5f64f84483 ("mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404134705.6361-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 2 +-
 mm/oom_kill.c       | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
index 53cbf4ebef10..ee86056ca9c3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static void moom_callback(struct work_struct *ignored)
 
 	mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
 	if (!out_of_memory(&oc))
-		pr_info("OOM request ignored because killer is disabled\n");
+		pr_info("OOM request ignored. No task eligible\n");
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 4a184157cc3d..2641a11e4378 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ void exit_oom_victim(void)
 void oom_killer_enable(void)
 {
 	oom_killer_disabled = false;
+	pr_info("OOM killer enabled.\n");
 }
 
 /**
@@ -742,6 +743,7 @@ bool oom_killer_disable(signed long timeout)
 		oom_killer_enable();
 		return false;
 	}
+	pr_info("OOM killer disabled.\n");
 
 	return true;
 }
-- 
2.14.1