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Message-ID: <CANMivWYzp_Eqw3BjeUz5ycQLftBuHjcZ7ZoFEwazekJNY2cJXA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:34:43 -0800
From: Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...gle.com>, msb@...ebook.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mhocko@...e.cz,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, oleg@...hat.com,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when selecting process to kill
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:35 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Sameer Nanda wrote:
>
>> David -- I think we can make the duration that the tasklist_lock is
>> held smaller by consolidating the process selection logic that is
>> currently split across select_bad_process and oom_kill_process into
>> one place in select_bad_process. The tasklist_lock would then need to
>> be held only when the thread lists are being traversed. Would you be
>> ok with that? I can re-spin the patch if that sounds like a workable
>> option.
>>
>
> No, this caused hundreds of machines to hit soft lockups for Google
> because there's no synchronization that prevents dozens of cpus to take
> tasklist_lock in the oom killer during parallel memcg oom conditions and
> never allow the write_lock_irq() on fork() or exit() to make progress. We
> absolutely must hold tasklist_lock for as little time as possible in the
> oom killer.
>
> That said, I've never actually seen your reported bug manifest in our
> production environment so let's see if Oleg has any ideas.
Is the path you are referring to mem_cgroup_out_of_memory calling
oom_kill_process? If so, then that path doesn't appear to suffer from
the two step select_bad_process, oom_kill_process race since
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory directly calls oom_kill_process without going
through select_bad_process. This also means that the patch I sent is
incorrect since it removes the existing tasklist_lock protection in
oom_kill_process.
Respinning patch to take care of this case.
--
Sameer
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