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Message-ID: <YgVtGhvXqqVzTy7M@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:52:58 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] memcg: refactor mem_cgroup_oom

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:14:34AM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The function mem_cgroup_oom returns enum which has four possible values
> but the caller does not care about such values and only care if the
> return value is OOM_SUCCESS or not. So, remove the enum altogether and
> make mem_cgroup_oom returns a simple bool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>

Nice!

Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 40 +++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index a0e9d9f12cf5..c40c27822802 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1795,20 +1795,12 @@ static void memcg_oom_recover(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  		__wake_up(&memcg_oom_waitq, TASK_NORMAL, 0, memcg);
>  }
>  
> -enum oom_status {
> -	OOM_SUCCESS,
> -	OOM_FAILED,
> -	OOM_ASYNC,
> -	OOM_SKIPPED
> -};
> -

The only thing, I'd add a small comment on the return value here. E.g.
"returns true if one or more tasks have been successfully killed" or something
like this.

Thanks!

> -static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order)
> +static bool mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order)
>  {
> -	enum oom_status ret;
> -	bool locked;
> +	bool locked, ret = false;
>  
>  	if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
> -		return OOM_SKIPPED;
> +		return ret;
>  
>  	memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_OOM);
>  
> @@ -1831,14 +1823,13 @@ static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int
>  	 * victim and then we have to bail out from the charge path.
>  	 */
>  	if (memcg->oom_kill_disable) {
> -		if (!current->in_user_fault)
> -			return OOM_SKIPPED;
> -		css_get(&memcg->css);
> -		current->memcg_in_oom = memcg;
> -		current->memcg_oom_gfp_mask = mask;
> -		current->memcg_oom_order = order;
> -
> -		return OOM_ASYNC;
> +		if (current->in_user_fault) {
> +			css_get(&memcg->css);
> +			current->memcg_in_oom = memcg;
> +			current->memcg_oom_gfp_mask = mask;
> +			current->memcg_oom_order = order;
> +		}
> +		return ret;
>  	}
>  
>  	mem_cgroup_mark_under_oom(memcg);
> @@ -1849,10 +1840,7 @@ static enum oom_status mem_cgroup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int
>  		mem_cgroup_oom_notify(memcg);
>  
>  	mem_cgroup_unmark_under_oom(memcg);
> -	if (mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, mask, order))
> -		ret = OOM_SUCCESS;
> -	else
> -		ret = OOM_FAILED;
> +	ret = mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, mask, order);
>  
>  	if (locked)
>  		mem_cgroup_oom_unlock(memcg);
> @@ -2545,7 +2533,6 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
>  	struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
>  	struct page_counter *counter;
> -	enum oom_status oom_status;
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>  	bool passed_oom = false;
>  	bool may_swap = true;
> @@ -2648,9 +2635,8 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	 * a forward progress or bypass the charge if the oom killer
>  	 * couldn't make any progress.
>  	 */
> -	oom_status = mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask,
> -		       get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
> -	if (oom_status == OOM_SUCCESS) {
> +	if (mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask,
> +			   get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE))) {
>  		passed_oom = true;
>  		nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
>  		goto retry;
> -- 
> 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog
>