kernel/linux.git/mm/oom_kill.c, branch v5.10.257

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process

2025-03-13T11:47:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit ade81479c7dda1ce3eedb215c78bc615bbd04f06 ] A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was triggered. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [VM Thread:1503066] CPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G Hardware name: Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS RIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540 RSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS: 00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247 RBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0 R13: ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: vprintk_emit+0x193/0x280 printk+0x52/0x6e dump_task+0x114/0x130 mem_cgroup_scan_tasks+0x76/0x100 dump_header+0x1fe/0x210 oom_kill_process+0xd1/0x100 out_of_memory+0x125/0x570 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0xb5/0xd0 try_charge+0x720/0x770 mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x86/0x180 mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1c/0x40 do_anonymous_page+0xb5/0x390 handle_mm_fault+0xc4/0x1f0 This is because thousands of processes are in the OOM cgroup, it takes a long time to traverse all of them. As a result, this lead to soft lockup in the OOM process. To fix this issue, call 'cond_resched' in the 'mem_cgroup_scan_tasks' function per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call 'touch_softlockup_watchdog' per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241224025238.3768787-1-chenridong@huaweicloud.com Fixes: 9cbb78bb3143 ("mm, memcg: introduce own oom handler to iterate only over its own threads") Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: update mark_victim tracepoints fields

2025-03-13T11:47:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 72ba14deb40a9e9668ec5e66a341ed657e5215c2 ] The current implementation of the mark_victim tracepoint provides only the process ID (pid) of the victim process. This limitation poses challenges for userspace tools requiring real-time OOM analysis and intervention. Although this information is available from the kernel logs, it’s not the appropriate format to provide OOM notifications. In Android, BPF programs are used with the mark_victim trace events to notify userspace of an OOM kill. For consistency, update the trace event to include the same information about the OOMed victim as the kernel logs. - UID In Android each installed application has a unique UID. Including the `uid` assists in correlating OOM events with specific apps. - Process Name (comm) Enables identification of the affected process. - OOM Score Will allow userspace to get additional insight of the relative kill priority of the OOM victim. In Android, the oom_score_adj is used to categorize app state (foreground, background, etc.), which aids in analyzing user-perceptible impacts of OOM events [1]. - Total VM, RSS Stats, and pgtables Amount of memory used by the victim that will, potentially, be freed up by killing it. [1] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/246dc8fc95b6d93afcba5c6d6c133307abb3ac2e:frameworks/base/services/core/java/com/android/server/am/ProcessList.java;l=188-283 Signed-off-by: Carlos Galo Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Stable-dep-of: ade81479c7dd ("memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

oom_kill.c: futex: delay the OOM reaper to allow time for proper futex cleanup

2022-04-27T11:53:54+00:00

commit e4a38402c36e42df28eb1a5394be87e6571fb48a upstream. The pthread struct is allocated on PRIVATE|ANONYMOUS memory [1] which can be targeted by the oom reaper. This mapping is used to store the futex robust list head; the kernel does not keep a copy of the robust list and instead references a userspace address to maintain the robustness during a process death. A race can occur between exit_mm and the oom reaper that allows the oom reaper to free the memory of the futex robust list before the exit path has handled the futex death: CPU1 CPU2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- page_fault do_exit "signal" wake_oom_reaper oom_reaper oom_reap_task_mm (invalidates mm) exit_mm exit_mm_release futex_exit_release futex_cleanup exit_robust_list get_user (EFAULT- can't access memory) If the get_user EFAULT's, the kernel will be unable to recover the waiters on the robust_list, leaving userspace mutexes hung indefinitely. Delay the OOM reaper, allowing more time for the exit path to perform the futex cleanup. Reproducer: https://gitlab.com/jsavitz/oom_futex_reproducer Based on a patch by Michal Hocko. Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-2.35/source/nptl/allocatestack.c#L370 [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414144042.677008-1-npache@redhat.com Fixes: 212925802454 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently") Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz Signed-off-by: Nico Pache Co-developed-by: Joel Savitz Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Rafael Aquini Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Dietmar Eggemann Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joel Savitz Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, oom: do not trigger out_of_memory from the #PF

2021-11-18T13:04:30+00:00

commit 60e2793d440a3ec95abb5d6d4fc034a4b480472d upstream. Any allocation failure during the #PF path will return with VM_FAULT_OOM which in turn results in pagefault_out_of_memory. This can happen for 2 different reasons. a) Memcg is out of memory and we rely on mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize to perform the memcg OOM handling or b) normal allocation fails. The latter is quite problematic because allocation paths already trigger out_of_memory and the page allocator tries really hard to not fail allocations. Anyway, if the OOM killer has been already invoked there is no reason to invoke it again from the #PF path. Especially when the OOM condition might be gone by that time and we have no way to find out other than allocate. Moreover if the allocation failed and the OOM killer hasn't been invoked then we are unlikely to do the right thing from the #PF context because we have already lost the allocation context and restictions and therefore might oom kill a task from a different NUMA domain. This all suggests that there is no legitimate reason to trigger out_of_memory from pagefault_out_of_memory so drop it. Just to be sure that no #PF path returns with VM_FAULT_OOM without allocation print a warning that this is happening before we restart the #PF. [VvS: #PF allocation can hit into limit of cgroup v1 kmem controller. This is a local problem related to memcg, however, it causes unnecessary global OOM kills that are repeated over and over again and escalate into a real disaster. This has been broken since kmem accounting has been introduced for cgroup v1 (3.8). There was no kmem specific reclaim for the separate limit so the only way to handle kmem hard limit was to return with ENOMEM. In upstream the problem will be fixed by removing the outdated kmem limit, however stable and LTS kernels cannot do it and are still affected. This patch fixes the problem and should be backported into stable/LTS.] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f5fd8dd8-0ad4-c524-5f65-920b01972a42@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, oom: pagefault_out_of_memory: don't force global OOM for dying tasks

2021-11-18T13:04:30+00:00

commit 0b28179a6138a5edd9d82ad2687c05b3773c387b upstream. Patch series "memcg: prohibit unconditional exceeding the limit of dying tasks", v3. Memory cgroup charging allows killed or exiting tasks to exceed the hard limit. It can be misused and allowed to trigger global OOM from inside a memcg-limited container. On the other hand if memcg fails allocation, called from inside #PF handler it triggers global OOM from inside pagefault_out_of_memory(). To prevent these problems this patchset: (a) removes execution of out_of_memory() from pagefault_out_of_memory(), becasue nobody can explain why it is necessary. (b) allow memcg to fail allocation of dying/killed tasks. This patch (of 3): Any allocation failure during the #PF path will return with VM_FAULT_OOM which in turn results in pagefault_out_of_memory which in turn executes out_out_memory() and can kill a random task. An allocation might fail when the current task is the oom victim and there are no memory reserves left. The OOM killer is already handled at the page allocator level for the global OOM and at the charging level for the memcg one. Both have much more information about the scope of allocation/charge request. This means that either the OOM killer has been invoked properly and didn't lead to the allocation success or it has been skipped because it couldn't have been invoked. In both cases triggering it from here is pointless and even harmful. It makes much more sense to let the killed task die rather than to wake up an eternally hungry oom-killer and send him to choose a fatter victim for breakfast. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0828a149-786e-7c06-b70a-52d086818ea3@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary

2020-10-14T01:38:35+00:00

Currently __set_oom_adj loops through all processes in the system to keep oom_score_adj and oom_score_adj_min in sync between processes sharing their mm. This is done for any task with more that one mm_users, which includes processes with multiple threads (sharing mm and signals). However for such processes the loop is unnecessary because their signal structure is shared as well. Android updates oom_score_adj whenever a tasks changes its role (background/foreground/...) or binds to/unbinds from a service, making it more/less important. Such operation can happen frequently. We noticed that updates to oom_score_adj became more expensive and after further investigation found out that the patch mentioned in "Fixes" introduced a regression. Using Pixel 4 with a typical Android workload, write time to oom_score_adj increased from ~3.57us to ~362us. Moreover this regression linearly depends on the number of multi-threaded processes running on the system. Mark the mm with a new MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag bit when task is created with (CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD && !CLONE_VFORK). Change __set_oom_adj to use MMF_MULTIPROCESS instead of mm_users to decide whether oom_score_adj update should be synchronized between multiple processes. To prevent races between clone() and __set_oom_adj(), when oom_score_adj of the process being cloned might be modified from userspace, we use oom_adj_mutex. Its scope is changed to global. The combination of (CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD) is rarely used except for the case of vfork(). To prevent performance regressions of vfork(), we skip taking oom_adj_mutex and setting MMF_MULTIPROCESS when CLONE_VFORK is specified. Clearing the MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag (when the last process sharing the mm exits) is left out of this patch to keep it simple and because it is believed that this threading model is rare. Should there ever be a need for optimizing that case as well, it can be done by hooking into the exit path, likely following the mm_update_next_owner pattern. With the combination of (CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD && !CLONE_VFORK) being quite rare, the regression is gone after the change is applied. [surenb@google.com: v3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902012558.2335613-1-surenb@google.com Fixes: 44a70adec910 ("mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj") Reported-by: Tim Murray Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov Cc: Christian Kellner Cc: Adrian Reber Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Aleksa Sarai Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alexey Gladkov Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Daniel Jordan Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Bernd Edlinger Cc: John Johansen Cc: Yafang Shao Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824153036.3201505-1-surenb@google.com Debugged-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: show process exiting information in __oom_kill_process()

2020-08-12T17:57:56+00:00

When the OOM killer finds a victim and tryies to kill it, if the victim is already exiting, the task mm will be NULL and no process will be killed. But the dump_header() has been already executed, so it will be strange to dump so much information without killing a process. We'd better show some helpful information to indicate why this happens. Suggested-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Qian Cai Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721010127.17238-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: make the calculation of oom badness more accurate

2020-08-12T17:57:56+00:00

Recently we found an issue on our production environment that when memcg oom is triggered the oom killer doesn't chose the process with largest resident memory but chose the first scanned process. Note that all processes in this memcg have the same oom_score_adj, so the oom killer should chose the process with largest resident memory. Bellow is part of the oom info, which is enough to analyze this issue. [7516987.983223] memory: usage 16777216kB, limit 16777216kB, failcnt 52843037 [7516987.983224] memory+swap: usage 16777216kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0 [7516987.983225] kmem: usage 301464kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0 [...] [7516987.983293] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name [7516987.983510] [ 5740] 0 5740 257 1 32768 0 -998 pause [7516987.983574] [58804] 0 58804 4594 771 81920 0 -998 entry_point.bas [7516987.983577] [58908] 0 58908 7089 689 98304 0 -998 cron [7516987.983580] [58910] 0 58910 16235 5576 163840 0 -998 supervisord [7516987.983590] [59620] 0 59620 18074 1395 188416 0 -998 sshd [7516987.983594] [59622] 0 59622 18680 6679 188416 0 -998 python [7516987.983598] [59624] 0 59624 1859266 5161 548864 0 -998 odin-agent [7516987.983600] [59625] 0 59625 707223 9248 983040 0 -998 filebeat [7516987.983604] [59627] 0 59627 416433 64239 774144 0 -998 odin-log-agent [7516987.983607] [59631] 0 59631 180671 15012 385024 0 -998 python3 [7516987.983612] [61396] 0 61396 791287 3189 352256 0 -998 client [7516987.983615] [61641] 0 61641 1844642 29089 946176 0 -998 client [7516987.983765] [ 9236] 0 9236 2642 467 53248 0 -998 php_scanner [7516987.983911] [42898] 0 42898 15543 838 167936 0 -998 su [7516987.983915] [42900] 1000 42900 3673 867 77824 0 -998 exec_script_vr2 [7516987.983918] [42925] 1000 42925 36475 19033 335872 0 -998 python [7516987.983921] [57146] 1000 57146 3673 848 73728 0 -998 exec_script_J2p [7516987.983925] [57195] 1000 57195 186359 22958 491520 0 -998 python2 [7516987.983928] [58376] 1000 58376 275764 14402 290816 0 -998 rosmaster [7516987.983931] [58395] 1000 58395 155166 4449 245760 0 -998 rosout [7516987.983935] [58406] 1000 58406 18285584 3967322 37101568 0 -998 data_sim [7516987.984221] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=3aa16c9482ae3a6f6b78bda68a55d32c87c99b985e0f11331cddf05af6c4d753,mems_allowed=0-1,oom_memcg=/kubepods/podf1c273d3-9b36-11ea-b3df-246e9693c184,task_memcg=/kubepods/podf1c273d3-9b36-11ea-b3df-246e9693c184/1f246a3eeea8f70bf91141eeaf1805346a666e225f823906485ea0b6c37dfc3d,task=pause,pid=5740,uid=0 [7516987.984254] Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 5740 (pause) total-vm:1028kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB [7516988.092344] oom_reaper: reaped process 5740 (pause), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB We can find that the first scanned process 5740 (pause) was killed, but its rss is only one page. That is because, when we calculate the oom badness in oom_badness(), we always ignore the negtive point and convert all of these negtive points to 1. Now as oom_score_adj of all the processes in this targeted memcg have the same value -998, the points of these processes are all negtive value. As a result, the first scanned process will be killed. The oom_socre_adj (-998) in this memcg is set by kubelet, because it is a a Guaranteed pod, which has higher priority to prevent from being killed by system oom. To fix this issue, we should make the calculation of oom point more accurate. We can achieve it by convert the chosen_point from 'unsigned long' to 'long'. [cai@lca.pw: reported a issue in the previous version] [mhocko@suse.com: fixed the issue reported by Cai] [mhocko@suse.com: add the comment in proc_oom_score()] [laoar.shao@gmail.com: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594396651-9931-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Qian Cai Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594309987-9919-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes

2020-08-07T18:33:24+00:00

In order to prepare for per-object slab memory accounting, convert NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE vmstat items to bytes. To make it obvious, rename them to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B (similar to NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB). Internally global and per-node counters are stored in pages, however memcg and lruvec counters are stored in bytes. This scheme may look weird, but only for now. As soon as slab pages will be shared between multiple cgroups, global and node counters will reflect the total number of slab pages. However memcg and lruvec counters will be used for per-memcg slab memory tracking, which will take separate kernel objects in the account. Keeping global and node counters in pages helps to avoid additional overhead. The size of slab memory shouldn't exceed 4Gb on 32-bit machines, so it will fit into atomic_long_t we use for vmstats. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-4-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract

2020-06-11T02:14:18+00:00

Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm). Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case. [hch@lst.de: fix a comment typo, cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-3-hch@lst.de [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc/vas: fix up for {un}use_mm() rename] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200422163935.5aa93ba5@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Felix Kuehling Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [usb] Acked-by: Haren Myneni Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Al Viro Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Jason Wang Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Zhenyu Wang Cc: Zhi Wang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds