From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f197.google.com (mail-pf0-f197.google.com [209.85.192.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7626B0266 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 06:59:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pf0-f197.google.com with SMTP id n6so1928155pfg.19 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:59:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from EUR03-AM5-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr30132.outbound.protection.outlook.com. [40.107.3.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q3si3197046pgr.290.2018.01.11.03.59.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:59:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes References: <20180109152622.31ca558acb0cc25a1b14f38c@linux-foundation.org> <20180110124317.28887-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> <20180110143121.cf2a1c5497b31642c9b38b2a@linux-foundation.org> From: Andrey Ryabinin Message-ID: <47856d2b-1534-6198-c2e2-6d2356973bef@virtuozzo.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:59:23 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180110143121.cf2a1c5497b31642c9b38b2a@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Vladimir Davydov , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shakeel Butt On 01/11/2018 01:31 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:43:17 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > >> mem_cgroup_resize_[memsw]_limit() tries to free only 32 (SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) >> pages on each iteration. This makes practically impossible to decrease >> limit of memory cgroup. Tasks could easily allocate back 32 pages, >> so we can't reduce memory usage, and once retry_count reaches zero we return >> -EBUSY. >> >> Easy to reproduce the problem by running the following commands: >> >> mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test >> echo $$ >> /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/tasks >> cat big_file > /dev/null & >> sleep 1 && echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes >> -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy >> >> Instead of relying on retry_count, keep retrying the reclaim until >> the desired limit is reached or fail if the reclaim doesn't make >> any progress or a signal is pending. >> > > Is there any situation under which that mem_cgroup_resize_limit() can > get stuck semi-indefinitely in a livelockish state? It isn't very > obvious that we're protected from this, so perhaps it would help to > have a comment which describes how loop termination is assured? > We are not protected from this. If tasks in cgroup *indefinitely* generate reclaimable memory at high rate and user asks to set unreachable limit, like 'echo 4096 > memory.limit_in_bytes', than try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() will return non-zero indefinitely. Is that a big deal? At least loop can be interrupted by a signal, and we don't hold any locks here. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org