[PATCH v2] memcg, oom: check memcg margin for parallel oom

[Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>]

Memcg oom killer invocation is synchronized by the global oom_lock and
tasks are sleeping on the lock while somebody is selecting the victim or
potentially race with the oom_reaper is releasing the victim's memory.
This can result in a pointless oom killer invocation because a waiter
might be racing with the oom_reaper

        P1              oom_reaper              P2
                        oom_reap_task           mutex_lock(oom_lock)
                                                out_of_memory # no victim because we have one already
                        __oom_reap_task_mm      mute_unlock(oom_lock)
 mutex_lock(oom_lock)
                        set MMF_OOM_SKIP
 select_bad_process
 # finds a new victim

The page allocator prevents from this race by trying to allocate after
the lock can be acquired (in __alloc_pages_may_oom) which acts as a last
minute check. Moreover page allocator simply doesn't block on the
oom_lock and simply retries the whole reclaim process.

Memcg oom killer should do the last minute check as well. Call
mem_cgroup_margin to do that. Trylock on the oom_lock could be done as
well but this doesn't seem to be necessary at this stage.

[mhocko@kernel.org: commit log]
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

---
v1 -> v2:
- commit log improved by Michal
- retitle the subject from "mm, oom: check memcg margin for parallel oom"
- code simplicity, per Michal
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1962232..15e0e18 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1560,15 +1560,21 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		.gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
 		.order = order,
 	};
-	bool ret;
+	bool ret = true;
 
 	if (mutex_lock_killable(&oom_lock))
 		return true;
+
+	if (mem_cgroup_margin(memcg) >= (1 << order))
+		goto unlock;
+
 	/*
 	 * A few threads which were not waiting at mutex_lock_killable() can
 	 * fail to bail out. Therefore, check again after holding oom_lock.
 	 */
 	ret = should_force_charge() || out_of_memory(&oc);
+
+unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1