mm: memcontrol: reclaim and OOM kill when shrinking memory.max below usage

Setting the original memory.limit_in_bytes hardlimit is subject to a
race condition when the desired value is below the current usage.  The
code tries a few times to first reclaim and then see if the usage has
dropped to where we would like it to be, but there is no locking, and
the workload is free to continue making new charges up to the old limit.
Thus, attempting to shrink a workload relies on pure luck and hope that
the workload happens to cooperate.

To fix this in the cgroup2 memory.max knob, do it the other way round:
set the limit first, then try enforcement.  And if reclaim is not able
to succeed, trigger OOM kills in the group.  Keep going until the new
limit is met, we run out of OOM victims and there's only unreclaimable
memory left, or the task writing to memory.max is killed.  This allows
users to shrink groups reliably, and the behavior is consistent with
what happens when new charges are attempted in excess of memory.max.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Weiner 2016-03-17 14:20:28 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 588083bb37
commit b6e6edcfa4
2 changed files with 40 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -1387,6 +1387,12 @@ system than killing the group. Otherwise, memory.max is there to
limit this type of spillover and ultimately contain buggy or even limit this type of spillover and ultimately contain buggy or even
malicious applications. malicious applications.
Setting the original memory.limit_in_bytes below the current usage was
subject to a race condition, where concurrent charges could cause the
limit setting to fail. memory.max on the other hand will first set the
limit to prevent new charges, and then reclaim and OOM kill until the
new limit is met - or the task writing to memory.max is killed.
The combined memory+swap accounting and limiting is replaced by real The combined memory+swap accounting and limiting is replaced by real
control over swap space. control over swap space.

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@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static unsigned long mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return limit; return limit;
} }
static void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
int order) int order)
{ {
struct oom_control oc = { struct oom_control oc = {
@ -1314,6 +1314,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
} }
unlock: unlock:
mutex_unlock(&oom_lock); mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
return chosen;
} }
#if MAX_NUMNODES > 1 #if MAX_NUMNODES > 1
@ -5029,6 +5030,8 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off) char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
{ {
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of)); struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of));
unsigned int nr_reclaims = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
bool drained = false;
unsigned long max; unsigned long max;
int err; int err;
@ -5037,9 +5040,36 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
if (err) if (err)
return err; return err;
err = mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, max); xchg(&memcg->memory.limit, max);
if (err)
return err; for (;;) {
unsigned long nr_pages = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
if (nr_pages <= max)
break;
if (signal_pending(current)) {
err = -EINTR;
break;
}
if (!drained) {
drain_all_stock(memcg);
drained = true;
continue;
}
if (nr_reclaims) {
if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - max,
GFP_KERNEL, true))
nr_reclaims--;
continue;
}
mem_cgroup_events(memcg, MEMCG_OOM, 1);
if (!mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, 0))
break;
}
memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg); memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
return nbytes; return nbytes;