Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc patch] mm, oom: fix unnecessary killing of additional processes | From | Tetsuo Handa <> | Date | Fri, 25 May 2018 09:19:03 +0900 |
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David Rientjes wrote: > The oom reaper ensures forward progress by setting MMF_OOM_SKIP itself if > it cannot reap an mm. This can happen for a variety of reasons, > including: > > - the inability to grab mm->mmap_sem in a sufficient amount of time, > > - when the mm has blockable mmu notifiers that could cause the oom reaper > to stall indefinitely, > > but we can also add a third when the oom reaper can "reap" an mm but doing > so is unlikely to free any amount of memory: > > - when the mm's memory is fully mlocked.
- when the mm's memory is fully mlocked (needs privilege) or fully shared (does not need privilege)
> > When all memory is mlocked, the oom reaper will not be able to free any > substantial amount of memory. It sets MMF_OOM_SKIP before the victim can > unmap and free its memory in exit_mmap() and subsequent oom victims are > chosen unnecessarily. This is trivial to reproduce if all eligible > processes on the system have mlocked their memory: the oom killer calls > panic() even though forward progress can be made.
s/mlocked/mlocked or shared/g
> > This is the same issue where the exit path sets MMF_OOM_SKIP before > unmapping memory and additional processes can be chosen unnecessarily > because the oom killer is racing with exit_mmap(). > > We can't simply defer setting MMF_OOM_SKIP, however, because if there is > a true oom livelock in progress, it never gets set and no additional > killing is possible. > > To fix this, this patch introduces a per-mm reaping timeout, initially set > at 10s. It requires that the oom reaper's list becomes a properly linked > list so that other mm's may be reaped while waiting for an mm's timeout to > expire.
I already proposed more simpler one at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9877991/ .
> > The exit path will now set MMF_OOM_SKIP only after all memory has been > freed, so additional oom killing is justified, and rely on MMF_UNSTABLE to > determine when it can race with the oom reaper. > > The oom reaper will now set MMF_OOM_SKIP only after the reap timeout has > lapsed because it can no longer guarantee forward progress. > > The reaping timeout is intentionally set for a substantial amount of time > since oom livelock is a very rare occurrence and it's better to optimize > for preventing additional (unnecessary) oom killing than a scenario that > is much more unlikely.
But before thinking about your proposal, please think about how to guarantee that the OOM reaper and the exit path can run discussed at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201805122318.HJG81246.MFVFLFJOOQtSHO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp .
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