linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809101740080.256423@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed
 high-order allocation

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Roman Gushchin wrote:

> The memcg OOM killer is never invoked due to a failed high-order
> allocation, however the MEMCG_OOM event can be easily raised.
> 
> Under some memory pressure it can happen easily because of a
> concurrent allocation. Let's look at try_charge(). Even if we were
> able to reclaim enough memory, this check can fail due to a race
> with another allocation:
> 
>     if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages)
>         goto retry;
> 
> For regular pages the following condition will save us from triggering
> the OOM:
> 
>    if (nr_reclaimed && nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
>        goto retry;
> 
> But for high-order allocation this condition will intentionally fail.
> The reason behind is that we'll likely fall to regular pages anyway,
> so it's ok and even preferred to return ENOMEM.
> 
> In this case the idea of raising the MEMCG_OOM event looks dubious.
> 
> Fix this by moving MEMCG_OOM raising to  mem_cgroup_oom() after
> allocation order check, so that the event won't be raised for high
> order allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>