linux-kernel - [v11 6/6] mm, oom, docs: describe the cgroup-aware OOM killer

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 14:04:54 +0100
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [v11 6/6] mm, oom, docs: describe the cgroup-aware OOM killer

Document the cgroup-aware OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@...com
Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 3f8216912df0..28429e62b0ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ v1 is available under Documentation/cgroup-v1/.
        5-2-1. Memory Interface Files
        5-2-2. Usage Guidelines
        5-2-3. Memory Ownership
+       5-2-4. OOM Killer
      5-3. IO
        5-3-1. IO Interface Files
        5-3-2. Writeback
@@ -1043,6 +1044,28 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 	high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's
 	utility is limited to providing the final safety net.
 
+  memory.oom_group
+
+	A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
+	cgroups.  The default is "0".
+
+	If set, OOM killer will consider the memory cgroup as an
+	indivisible memory consumers and compare it with other memory
+	consumers by it's memory footprint.
+	If such memory cgroup is selected as an OOM victim, all
+	processes belonging to it or it's descendants will be killed.
+
+	This applies to system-wide OOM conditions and reaching
+	the hard memory limit of the cgroup and their ancestor.
+	If OOM condition happens in a descendant cgroup with it's own
+	memory limit, the memory cgroup can't be considered
+	as an OOM victim, and OOM killer will not kill all belonging
+	tasks.
+
+	Also, OOM killer respects the /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value -1000,
+	and will never kill the unkillable task, even if memory.oom_group
+	is set.
+
   memory.events
 	A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
 	The following entries are defined.  Unless specified
@@ -1246,6 +1269,34 @@ to be accessed repeatedly by other cgroups, it may make sense to use
 POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to relinquish the ownership of memory areas
 belonging to the affected files to ensure correct memory ownership.
 
+OOM Killer
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Cgroup v2 memory controller implements a cgroup-aware OOM killer.
+It means that it treats cgroups as first class OOM entities.
+
+Under OOM conditions the memory controller tries to make the best
+choice of a victim, looking for a memory cgroup with the largest
+memory footprint, considering leaf cgroups and cgroups with the
+memory.oom_group option set, which are considered to be an indivisible
+memory consumers.
+
+By default, OOM killer will kill the biggest task in the selected
+memory cgroup. A user can change this behavior by enabling
+the per-cgroup memory.oom_group option. If set, it causes
+the OOM killer to kill all processes attached to the cgroup,
+except processes with oom_score_adj set to -1000.
+
+This affects both system- and cgroup-wide OOMs. For a cgroup-wide OOM
+the memory controller considers only cgroups belonging to the sub-tree
+of the OOM'ing cgroup.
+
+The root cgroup is treated as a leaf memory cgroup, so it's compared
+with other leaf memory cgroups and cgroups with oom_group option set.
+
+If there are no cgroups with the enabled memory controller,
+the OOM killer is using the "traditional" process-based approach.
+
 
 IO
 --
-- 
2.13.6