Re: [RFC PATCH 10/10] mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Sat 04-06-16 00:16:32, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > The only case where the oom_reaper is not triggered for the oom victim
> > is when it shares the memory with a kernel thread (aka use_mm) or with
> > the global init. After "mm, oom: skip vforked tasks from being selected"
> > the victim cannot be a vforked task of the global init so we are left
> > with clone(CLONE_VM) (without CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND).
> 
> According to clone(2) manpage
> 
>   Since Linux 2.5.35, flags must also include CLONE_SIGHAND if
>   CLONE_THREAD is specified (and note that, since Linux
>   2.6.0-test6, CLONE_SIGHAND also requires CLONE_VM to be
>   included).
> 
> clone(CLONE_VM | CLONE_SIGHAND) and clone(CLONE_VM | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD)
> are allowed but clone(CLONE_VM | CLONE_THREAD) is not allowed. Therefore,
> I think "clone(CLONE_VM) (without CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND)" should be
> written like "clone(CLONE_VM without CLONE_SIGHAND)".

Sure, I can change the wording.
 
> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > index 9a5cc12a479a..3a3b136ee9db 100644
> > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > @@ -283,10 +283,19 @@ enum oom_scan_t oom_scan_process_thread(struct oom_control *oc,
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * This task already has access to memory reserves and is being killed.
> > -	 * Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves.
> > +	 * Don't allow any other task to have access to the reserves unless
> > +	 * this is a current task which is clearly in the allocation path and
> > +	 * the access to memory reserves didn't help so we should rather try
> > +	 * to kill somebody else or panic on no oom victim than loop with no way
> > +	 * forward. Go with OOM_SCAN_OK rather than OOM_SCAN_CONTINUE to double
> > +	 * check MMF_OOM_REAPED in oom_badness() to make sure we've done
> > +	 * everything to reclaim memory.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims))
> > -		return OOM_SCAN_ABORT;
> > +	if (!is_sysrq_oom(oc) && atomic_read(&task->signal->oom_victims)) {
> > +		if (task != current)
> > +			return OOM_SCAN_ABORT;
> > +		return OOM_SCAN_OK;
> > +	}
> 
> I don't think above change is needed. Instead, making sure that TIF_MEMDIE is
> cleared (or ignored) some time later is needed.

This is a counterpart for oom_kill_process which doesn't clear
TIF_MEMDIE for the current task if it is not reapable.

> If an allocating task leaves out_of_memory() with a TIF_MEMDIE thread, it is
> guaranteed (provided that CONFIG_MMU=y && oom_reaper_th != NULL) that the OOM
> reaper is woken up and clear TIF_MEMDIE and sets MMF_OOM_REAPED regardless of
> reaping result.
> 
> Leaving current thread from out_of_memory() without clearing TIF_MEMDIE might
> cause OOM lockup, for there is no guarantee that current thread will not wait
> for locks in unkillable state after current memory allocation request completes
> (e.g. getname() followed by mutex_lock() shown at
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201509290118.BCJ43256.tSFFFMOLHVOJOQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp ).
> 
> > @@ -922,8 +936,17 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
> >  	}
> >  	rcu_read_unlock();
> >  
> > -	if (can_oom_reap)
> > +	if (can_oom_reap) {
> >  		wake_oom_reaper(victim);
> > +	} else if (victim != current) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * If we want to guarantee a forward progress we cannot keep
> > +		 * the oom victim TIF_MEMDIE here. Sleep for a while and then
> > +		 * drop the flag to make sure another victim can be selected.
> > +		 */
> > +		schedule_timeout_killable(HZ);
> 
> Sending SIGKILL to victim makes this sleep a no-op if
> same_thread_group(victim, current) == true.

Yes, I just wanted to skip exit_oom_victim here because the current task
wouldn't have any means to use memory reserves. This might be not
sufficient as you write above. I will think about this some more.
 
> > +		exit_oom_victim(victim);
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	mmdrop(mm);
> >  	put_task_struct(victim);
> > -- 
> > 2.8.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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