From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DACDC432BE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4AB60EFF for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:53 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 1C4AB60EFF Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 8FFD48D0001; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 8AFFC6B0071; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:42:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 79E688D0001; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:42:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0096.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.96]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDB46B006C for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin26.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C8F181E437E for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:51 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 78455355342.26.3FCB6DE Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [195.135.220.29]) by imf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA0B4002087 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.suse.de (relay2.suse.de [149.44.160.134]) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1741FDC8; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1628509369; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=TLyE1mmon2vKKKl0SvVhnQIjlLnXPzD9ELTQJvXVjt0=; b=h1qGoQV6zG7DmmvyeLjnIL8QWs9Mt/pkI3z0EeX3Y3w9O+tEscmrzzhabFg+KANZbthLH8 xIvie+mXaTSekM+1OID0XLzoPYlCevDPaHJFMQnIomKDf4TM1yILtOD4TtaQwOCfx6hadv ghjBv037IaFQ8DpiNL9jFp/l5YNWgmE= Received: from suse.cz (unknown [10.100.201.86]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 783E4A3B81; Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 13:42:49 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com, willy@infradead.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, guro@fb.com, riel@surriel.com, minchan@kernel.org, christian@brauner.io, hch@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, jannh@google.com, shakeelb@google.com, luto@kernel.org, christian.brauner@ubuntu.com, fweimer@redhat.com, jengelh@inai.de, timmurray@google.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] mm: introduce process_mrelease system call Message-ID: References: <20210808160823.3553954-1-surenb@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210808160823.3553954-1-surenb@google.com> X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3DA0B4002087 Authentication-Results: imf18.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=suse.com header.s=susede1 header.b=h1qGoQV6; dmarc=pass (policy=quarantine) header.from=suse.com; spf=pass (imf18.hostedemail.com: domain of mhocko@suse.com designates 195.135.220.29 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mhocko@suse.com X-Stat-Signature: 1qgsb9iknpyd3rnj7yg7wb8unwo3iuxg X-HE-Tag: 1628509371-777857 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun 08-08-21 09:08:22, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > In modern systems it's not unusual to have a system component monitoring > memory conditions of the system and tasked with keeping system memory > pressure under control. One way to accomplish that is to kill > non-essential processes to free up memory for more important ones. > Examples of this are Facebook's OOM killer daemon called oomd and > Android's low memory killer daemon called lmkd. > For such system component it's important to be able to free memory > quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately the time process takes to free > up its memory after receiving a SIGKILL might vary based on the state > of the process (uninterruptible sleep), size and OPP level of the core > the process is running. A mechanism to free resources of the target > process in a more predictable way would improve system's ability to > control its memory pressure. > Introduce process_mrelease system call that releases memory of a dying > process from the context of the caller. This way the memory is freed in > a more controllable way with CPU affinity and priority of the caller. > The workload of freeing the memory will also be charged to the caller. > The operation is allowed only on a dying process. > > After previous discussions [1, 2, 3] the decision was made [4] to introduce > a dedicated system call to cover this use case. > > The API is as follows, > > int process_mrelease(int pidfd, unsigned int flags); > > DESCRIPTION > The process_mrelease() system call is used to free the memory of > an exiting process. > > The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file > descriptor. > (See pidfd_open(2) for further information) > > The flags argument is reserved for future use; currently, this > argument must be specified as 0. > > RETURN VALUE > On success, process_mrelease() returns 0. On error, -1 is > returned and errno is set to indicate the error. > > ERRORS > EBADF pidfd is not a valid PID file descriptor. > > EAGAIN Failed to release part of the address space. > > EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal; see signal(7). > > EINVAL flags is not 0. > > EINVAL The memory of the task cannot be released because the > process is not exiting, the address space is shared > with another live process or there is a core dump in > progress. > > ENOSYS This system call is not supported, for example, without > MMU support built into Linux. > > ESRCH The target process does not exist (i.e., it has terminated > and been waited on). > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190411014353.113252-3-surenb@google.com/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201113173448.1863419-1-surenb@google.com/ > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201124053943.1684874-3-surenb@google.com/ > [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201223075712.GA4719@lst.de/ > > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Michal Hocko Thanks! > --- > changes in v8: > - Replaced mmget with mmgrab, per Shakeel Butt > - Refactored the code to simplify and fix the task_lock release issue, > per Michal Hocko > > mm/oom_kill.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c > index c729a4c4a1ac..f8acc26f7300 100644 > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > #include > #include > #include > @@ -1141,3 +1142,72 @@ void pagefault_out_of_memory(void) > out_of_memory(&oc); > mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); > } > + > +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(process_mrelease, int, pidfd, unsigned int, flags) > +{ > +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU > + struct mm_struct *mm = NULL; > + struct task_struct *task; > + struct task_struct *p; > + unsigned int f_flags; > + bool reap = true; > + struct pid *pid; > + long ret = 0; > + > + if (flags) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags); > + if (IS_ERR(pid)) > + return PTR_ERR(pid); > + > + task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); > + if (!task) { > + ret = -ESRCH; > + goto put_pid; > + } > + > + /* > + * Make sure to choose a thread which still has a reference to mm > + * during the group exit > + */ > + p = find_lock_task_mm(task); > + if (!p) { > + ret = -ESRCH; > + goto put_task; > + } > + > + mm = p->mm; > + mmgrab(mm); > + > + /* If the work has been done already, just exit with success */ > + if (test_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP, &mm->flags)) > + reap = false; > + else if (!task_will_free_mem(p)) { > + reap = false; > + ret = -EINVAL; > + } > + task_unlock(p); > + > + if (!reap) > + goto drop_mm; > + > + if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm)) { > + ret = -EINTR; > + goto drop_mm; > + } > + if (!__oom_reap_task_mm(mm)) > + ret = -EAGAIN; > + mmap_read_unlock(mm); > + > +drop_mm: > + mmdrop(mm); > +put_task: > + put_task_struct(task); > +put_pid: > + put_pid(pid); > + return ret; > +#else > + return -ENOSYS; > +#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */ > +} > -- > 2.32.0.605.g8dce9f2422-goog -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs