linux.git/mm/memcontrol.c, branch v4.20

mm: handle no memcg case in memcg_kmem_charge() properly

2018-11-03T17:09:37+00:00

Mike Galbraith reported a regression caused by the commit 9b6f7e163cd0
("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting") on a system with
"cgroup_disable=memory" boot option: the system panics with the following
stack trace:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f8
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.19.0-preempt+ #410
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20180531_142017-buildhw-08.phx2.fed4
  RIP: 0010:page_counter_try_charge+0x22/0xc0
  Code: 41 5d c3 c3 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 85 ff 0f 84 a7 00 00 00 41 56 48 89 f8 49 89 fe 49
  Call Trace:
   try_charge+0xcb/0x780
   memcg_kmem_charge_memcg+0x28/0x80
   memcg_kmem_charge+0x8b/0x1d0
   copy_process.part.41+0x1ca/0x2070
   _do_fork+0xd7/0x3d0
   do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x180
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The problem occurs because get_mem_cgroup_from_current() returns the NULL
pointer if memory controller is disabled.  Let's check if this is a case
at the beginning of memcg_kmem_charge() and just return 0 if
mem_cgroup_disabled() returns true.  This is how we handle this case in
many other places in the memory controller code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181029215123.17830-1-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax

2018-10-28T18:35:40+00:00

Pull XArray conversion from Matthew Wilcox:
 "The XArray provides an improved interface to the radix tree data
  structure, providing locking as part of the API, specifying GFP flags
  at allocation time, eliminating preloading, less re-walking the tree,
  more efficient iterations and not exposing RCU-protected pointers to
  its users.

  This patch set

   1. Introduces the XArray implementation

   2. Converts the pagecache to use it

   3. Converts memremap to use it

  The page cache is the most complex and important user of the radix
  tree, so converting it was most important. Converting the memremap
  code removes the only other user of the multiorder code, which allows
  us to remove the radix tree code that supported it.

  I have 40+ followup patches to convert many other users of the radix
  tree over to the XArray, but I'd like to get this part in first. The
  other conversions haven't been in linux-next and aren't suitable for
  applying yet, but you can see them in the xarray-conv branch if you're
  interested"

* 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (90 commits)
  radix tree: Remove multiorder support
  radix tree test: Convert multiorder tests to XArray
  radix tree tests: Convert item_delete_rcu to XArray
  radix tree tests: Convert item_kill_tree to XArray
  radix tree tests: Move item_insert_order
  radix tree test suite: Remove multiorder benchmarking
  radix tree test suite: Remove __item_insert
  memremap: Convert to XArray
  xarray: Add range store functionality
  xarray: Move multiorder_check to in-kernel tests
  xarray: Move multiorder_shrink to kernel tests
  xarray: Move multiorder account test in-kernel
  radix tree test suite: Convert iteration test to XArray
  radix tree test suite: Convert tag_tagged_items to XArray
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_clear_tags
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_maybe_preload_order
  radix tree: Remove split/join code
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_update_node_t
  page cache: Finish XArray conversion
  dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray
  ...

mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation

2018-10-26T23:38:14+00:00

It was reported that on some of our machines containers were restarted
with OOM symptoms without an obvious reason.  Despite there were almost no
memory pressure and plenty of page cache, MEMCG_OOM event was raised
occasionally, causing the container management software to think, that OOM
has happened.  However, no tasks have been killed.

The following investigation showed that the problem is caused by a failing
attempt to charge a high-order page.  In such case, the OOM killer is
never invoked.  As shown below, it can happen under conditions, which are
very far from a real OOM: e.g.  there is plenty of clean page cache and no
memory pressure.

There is no sense in raising an OOM event in this case, as it might
confuse a user and lead to wrong and excessive actions (e.g.  restart the
workload, as in my case).

Let's look at the charging path in try_charge().  If the memory usage is
about memory.max, which is absolutely natural for most memory cgroups, we
try to reclaim some pages.  Even if we were able to reclaim enough memory
for the allocation, the following check can fail due to a race with
another concurrent allocation:

    if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages)
        goto retry;

For regular pages the following condition will save us from triggering
the OOM:

   if (nr_reclaimed && nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
       goto retry;

But for high-order allocation this condition will intentionally fail.  The
reason behind is that we'll likely fall to regular pages anyway, so it's
ok and even preferred to return ENOMEM.

In this case the idea of raising MEMCG_OOM looks dubious.

Fix this by moving MEMCG_OOM raising to mem_cgroup_oom() after allocation
order check, so that the event won't be raised for high order allocations.
This change doesn't affect regular pages allocation and charging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181004214050.7417-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memcontrol.c: convert mem_cgroup_id::ref to refcount_t type

2018-10-26T23:26:35+00:00

This will allow to use generic refcount_t interfaces to check counters
overflow instead of currently existing VM_BUG_ON().  The only difference
after the patch is VM_BUG_ON() may cause BUG(), while refcount_t fires
with WARN().  But this seems not to be significant here, since such the
problems are usually caught by syzbot with panic-on-warn enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153910718919.7006.13400779039257185427.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Andrea Parri 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: remove memcg_kmem_skip_account

2018-10-26T23:26:33+00:00

The flag memcg_kmem_skip_account was added during the era of opt-out kmem
accounting.  There is no need for such flag in the opt-in world as there
aren't any __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within memcg_create_cache_enqueue().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919004501.178023-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memcontrol.c: fix memory.stat item ordering

2018-10-26T23:26:33+00:00

The refault stats go better with the page fault stats, and are of
higher interest than the stats on LRU operations. In fact they used to
be grouped together; when the LRU operation stats were added later on,
they were wedged in between.

Move them back together. Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
already lists them in the right order.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010140239.GA2527@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drain memcg stocks on css offlining

2018-10-26T23:25:19+00:00

Memcg charge is batched using per-cpu stocks, so an offline memcg can be
pinned by a cached charge up to a moment, when a process belonging to some
other cgroup will charge some memory on the same cpu.  In other words,
cached charges can prevent a memory cgroup from being reclaimed for some
time, without any clear need.

Let's optimize it by explicit draining of all stocks on css offlining.  As
draining is performed asynchronously, and is skipped if any parallel
draining is happening, it's cheap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827162621.30187-2-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

xarray: Replace exceptional entries

2018-09-30T02:47:49+00:00

Introduce xarray value entries and tagged pointers to replace radix
tree exceptional entries.  This is a slight change in encoding to allow
the use of an extra bit (we can now store BITS_PER_LONG - 1 bits in a
value entry).  It is also a change in emphasis; exceptional entries are
intimidating and different.  As the comment explains, you can choose
to store values or pointers in the xarray and they are both first-class
citizens.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik

mm: memcontrol: print proper OOM header when no eligible victim left

2018-09-04T23:45:02+00:00

When the memcg OOM killer runs out of killable tasks, it currently
prints a WARN with no further OOM context.  This has caused some user
confusion.

Warnings indicate a kernel problem.  In a reported case, however, the
situation was triggered by a nonsensical memcg configuration (hard limit
set to 0).  But without any VM context this wasn't obvious from the
report, and it took some back and forth on the mailing list to identify
what is actually a trivial issue.

Handle this OOM condition like we handle it in the global OOM killer:
dump the full OOM context and tell the user we ran out of tasks.

This way the user can identify misconfigurations easily by themselves
and rectify the problem - without having to go through the hassle of
running into an obscure but unsettling warning, finding the appropriate
kernel mailing list and waiting for a kernel developer to remote-analyze
that the memcg configuration caused this.

If users cannot make sense of why the OOM killer was triggered or why it
failed, they will still report it to the mailing list, we know that from
experience.  So in case there is an actual kernel bug causing this,
kernel developers will very likely hear about it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180821160406.22578-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: introduce memory.oom.group

2018-08-22T17:52:45+00:00

For some workloads an intervention from the OOM killer can be painful.
Killing a random task can bring the workload into an inconsistent state.

Historically, there are two common solutions for this
problem:
1) enabling panic_on_oom,
2) using a userspace daemon to monitor OOMs and kill
   all outstanding processes.

Both approaches have their downsides: rebooting on each OOM is an obvious
waste of capacity, and handling all in userspace is tricky and requires a
userspace agent, which will monitor all cgroups for OOMs.

In most cases an in-kernel after-OOM cleaning-up mechanism can eliminate
the necessity of enabling panic_on_oom.  Also, it can simplify the cgroup
management for userspace applications.

This commit introduces a new knob for cgroup v2 memory controller:
memory.oom.group.  The knob determines whether the cgroup should be
treated as an indivisible workload by the OOM killer.  If set, all tasks
belonging to the cgroup or to its descendants (if the memory cgroup is not
a leaf cgroup) are killed together or not at all.

To determine which cgroup has to be killed, we do traverse the cgroup
hierarchy from the victim task's cgroup up to the OOMing cgroup (or root)
and looking for the highest-level cgroup with memory.oom.group set.

Tasks with the OOM protection (oom_score_adj set to -1000) are treated as
an exception and are never killed.

This patch doesn't change the OOM victim selection algorithm.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802003201.817-4-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds