linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM tasks

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Message-ID: <c38e352a-dd23-a5e4-ac50-75b557506479@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Date:   Tue, 6 Nov 2018 18:44:43 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM tasks

>From dc0d9ec3205a28680dcf2213c0ffe8820e8b5913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 12:27:36 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: killed threads should not invoke memcg OOM killer

It is possible that a single process group memcg easily swamps the log
with no-eligible OOM victim messages after current thread was OOM-killed,
due to race between the memcg charge and the OOM reaper [1].

Thread-1                 Thread-2                       OOM reaper
try_charge()
  mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()
    mutex_lock(oom_lock)
                        try_charge()
                          mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()
                            mutex_lock(oom_lock)
    out_of_memory()
      select_bad_process()
      oom_kill_process(current)
      wake_oom_reaper()
                                                        oom_reap_task()
                                                        # sets MMF_OOM_SKIP
    mutex_unlock(oom_lock)
                            out_of_memory()
                              select_bad_process() # no task
                            mutex_unlock(oom_lock)

We don't need to invoke the memcg OOM killer if current thread was killed
when waiting for oom_lock, for mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(true) and
memory_max_write() can bail out upon SIGKILL, and try_charge() allows
already killed/exiting threads to make forward progress.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ea637f9a-5dd0-f927-d26d-d0b4fd8ccb6f@i-love.sakura.ne.jp

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6e1469b..a97648a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1382,8 +1382,13 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	};
 	bool ret;
 
-	mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
-	ret = out_of_memory(&oc);
+	if (mutex_lock_killable(&oom_lock))
+		return true;
+	/*
+	 * A few threads which were not waiting at mutex_lock_killable() can
+	 * fail to bail out. Therefore, check again after holding oom_lock.
+	 */
+	ret = fatal_signal_pending(current) || out_of_memory(&oc);
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1