From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, guro@fb.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rientjes@google.com, yang.s@alibaba-inc.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
syzbot <syzbot+77e6b28a7a7106ad0def@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: memcontrol: Don't flood OOM messages with no eligible task.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:54:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181023085445.GQ18839@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181023083738.o4wo3jxw3xkp3rwx@pathway.suse.cz>
[I strongly suspect this whole email thread went way out of scope of the
issue really deserves]
I didn't want to participate any further but let me clarify one thing
because I can see how the discussion could generate some confusion.
On Tue 23-10-18 10:37:38, Petr Mladek wrote:
[...]
> My understanding is that this situation happens when the system is
> misconfigured and unusable without manual intervention. If
> the user is able to see what the problem is then we are good.
Not really. The flood of _memcg_ oom report about no eligible tasks
should indeed happen only when the memcg is misconfigured. The system is
and should be still usable at this stage. Ratelimit is aimed to reduce
pointless message which do not help to debug the issue itself much.
There is a race condition as explained by Tetsuo that could lead to this
situation even without a misconfiguration and that is clearly a bug and
something to deal with and patches have been posted in that regards [1]
The rest of the discussion is about how to handle printk rate-limiting
properly and whether ad-hoc solution is more appropriate than a real API
we have in place and whether the later needs some enhancements. That is
completely orthogonal on the issue at hands and as such it should be
really discussed separately.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181022071323.9550-1-mhocko@kernel.org
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-23 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-17 10:06 [PATCH v3] mm: memcontrol: Don't flood OOM messages with no eligible task Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-17 10:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-17 11:17 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-17 11:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-18 2:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 2:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 4:27 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-18 5:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 5:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 6:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-18 7:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-18 8:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-18 11:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 23:54 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-19 10:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-19 10:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-23 0:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-23 8:37 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-23 8:54 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-10-18 14:30 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-19 0:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-23 8:21 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-23 10:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 6:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-18 10:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-18 11:23 ` Michal Hocko
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