linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY

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Message-ID: <20190429145249.GN21837@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:52:49 -0400
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL

On Mon 29-04-19 07:37:08, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:22 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun 28-04-19 16:56:13, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > The documentation of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL clearly mentioned that the
> > > OOM killer will not be triggered and indeed the page alloc does not
> > > invoke OOM killer for such allocations. However we do trigger memcg
> > > OOM killer for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL. Fix that.
> >
> > An example of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL memcg OOM report would be nice. I
> > thought we haven't been using that flag for memcg allocations yet.
> > But this is definitely good to have addressed.
> 
> Actually I am planning to use it for memcg allocations (specifically
> fsnotify allocations).

OK, then articulate it in the changelog please.

> > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs