kernel/linux.git/mm/oom_kill.c, branch v6.1.168

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process

2025-03-07T15:56:29+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

2025-03-07T15:56:28+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

mm: reduce noise in show_mem for lowmem allocations

2022-09-27T02:46:29+00:00

While discussing early DMA pool pre-allocation failure with Christoph [1] I have realized that the allocation failure warning is rather noisy for constrained allocations like GFP_DMA{32}. Those zones are usually not populated on all nodes very often as their memory ranges are constrained. This is an attempt to reduce the ballast that doesn't provide any relevant information for those allocation failures investigation. Please note that I have only compile tested it (in my default config setup) and I am throwing it mostly to see what people think about it. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220817060647.1032426-1-hch@lst.de [mhocko@suse.com: update] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yw29bmJTIkKogTiW@dhcp22.suse.cz [mhocko@suse.com: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for mapletree] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for Michal's update] [mhocko@suse.com: fix arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ywh3C4dKB9B93jIy@dhcp22.suse.cz [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YwScVmVofIZkopkF@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: delete unused MMF_OOM_VICTIM flag

2022-09-27T02:46:27+00:00

With the last usage of MMF_OOM_VICTIM in exit_mmap gone, this flag is now unused and can be removed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove comment about now-removed mm_is_oom_victim()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531223100.510392-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Peter Xu Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Liam Howlett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: drop oom code from exit_mmap

2022-09-27T02:46:27+00:00

The primary reason to invoke the oom reaper from the exit_mmap path used to be a prevention of an excessive oom killing if the oom victim exit races with the oom reaper (see [1] for more details). The invocation has moved around since then because of the interaction with the munlock logic but the underlying reason has remained the same (see [2]). Munlock code is no longer a problem since [3] and there shouldn't be any blocking operation before the memory is unmapped by exit_mmap so the oom reaper invocation can be dropped. The unmapping part can be done with the non-exclusive mmap_sem and the exclusive one is only required when page tables are freed. Remove the oom_reaper from exit_mmap which will make the code easier to read. This is really unlikely to make any observable difference although some microbenchmarks could benefit from one less branch that needs to be evaluated even though it almost never is true. [1] 212925802454 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently") [2] 27ae357fa82b ("mm, oom: fix concurrent munlock and oom reaper unmap, v3") [3] a213e5cf71cb ("mm/munlock: delete munlock_vma_pages_all(), allow oomreap") [akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore Suren's mmap_read_lock() optimization] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531223100.510392-1-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: John Hubbard Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/oom_kill: use vma iterators instead of vma linked list

2022-09-27T02:46:25+00:00

Use vma iterator in preparation of removing the linked list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-62-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Yu Zhao Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/oom_kill.c: fix vm_oom_kill_table[] ifdeffery

2022-06-01T22:57:16+00:00

arm allnoconfig: mm/oom_kill.c:60:25: warning: 'vm_oom_kill_table' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] 60 | static struct ctl_table vm_oom_kill_table[] = { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cc: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'sysctl-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2022-05-26T23:57:20+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain: "For two kernel releases now kernel/sysctl.c has been being cleaned up slowly, since the tables were grossly long, sprinkled with tons of #ifdefs and all this caused merge conflicts with one susbystem or another. This tree was put together to help try to avoid conflicts with these cleanups going on different trees at time. So nothing exciting on this pull request, just cleanups. Thanks a lot to the Uniontech and Huawei folks for doing some of this nasty work" * tag 'sysctl-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (28 commits) sched: Fix build warning without CONFIG_SYSCTL reboot: Fix build warning without CONFIG_SYSCTL kernel/kexec_core: move kexec_core sysctls into its own file sysctl: minor cleanup in new_dir() ftrace: fix building with SYSCTL=y but DYNAMIC_FTRACE=n fs/proc: Introduce list_for_each_table_entry for proc sysctl mm: fix unused variable kernel warning when SYSCTL=n latencytop: move sysctl to its own file ftrace: fix building with SYSCTL=n but DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y ftrace: Fix build warning ftrace: move sysctl_ftrace_enabled to ftrace.c kernel/do_mount_initrd: move real_root_dev sysctls to its own file kernel/delayacct: move delayacct sysctls to its own file kernel/acct: move acct sysctls to its own file kernel/panic: move panic sysctls to its own file kernel/lockdep: move lockdep sysctls to its own file mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file mm: move oom_kill sysctls to their own file kernel/reboot: move reboot sysctls to its own file sched: Move energy_aware sysctls to topology.c ...

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

2022-04-22T03:01:10+00:00

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

mm: move oom_kill sysctls to their own file

2022-04-06T20:43:44+00:00

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. So move the oom_kill sysctls to their own file, mm/oom_kill.c [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: null-terminate the array] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220216193202.28838626@canb.auug.org.au Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215093203.31032-1-sujiaxun@uniontech.com Signed-off-by: sujiaxun Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain