From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752169AbcL2AdK (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:33:10 -0500 Received: from LGEAMRELO13.lge.com ([156.147.23.53]:35480 "EHLO lgeamrelo13.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751956AbcL2AdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:33:04 -0500 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.126 X-Original-MAILFROM: minchan@kernel.org X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.223.161 X-Original-MAILFROM: minchan@kernel.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 09:31:54 +0900 From: Minchan Kim To: Michal Hocko Cc: Nils Holland , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Vladimir Davydov , Tetsuo Handa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Mason , David Sterba , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on) Message-ID: <20161229003154.GA15160@bbox> References: <20161221073658.GC16502@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161222101028.GA11105@ppc-nas.fritz.box> <20161222191719.GA19898@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161222214611.GA3015@boerne.fritz.box> <20161223105157.GB23109@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161223121851.GA27413@ppc-nas.fritz.box> <20161223125728.GE23109@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161223144738.GB23117@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161223222559.GA5568@teela.multi.box> <20161226124839.GB20715@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161226124839.GB20715@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 23-12-16 23:26:00, Nils Holland wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > Nils, even though this is still highly experimental, could you give it a > > > try please? > > > > Yes, no problem! So I kept the very first patch you sent but had to > > revert the latest version of the debugging patch (the one in > > which you added the "mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low" event) because > > otherwise the patch you just sent wouldn't apply. Then I rebooted with > > memory cgroups enabled again, and the first thing that strikes the eye > > is that I get this during boot: > > > > [ 1.568174] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > [ 1.568327] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memcontrol.c:1032 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size+0x118/0x130 > > [ 1.568543] mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(f4406400, 2, 1): lru_size 0 but not empty > > Ohh, I can see what is wrong! a) there is a bug in the accounting in > my patch (I double account) and b) the detection for the empty list > cannot work after my change because per node zone will not match per > zone statistics. The updated patch is below. So I hope my brain already > works after it's been mostly off last few days... > --- > From 397adf46917b2d9493180354a7b0182aee280a8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michal Hocko > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:11:54 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when > memcg is enabled > > Nils Holland has reported unexpected OOM killer invocations with 32b > kernel starting with 4.8 kernels > > kworker/u4:5 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2400840(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL), nodemask=0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 > kworker/u4:5 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 > CPU: 1 PID: 2603 Comm: kworker/u4:5 Not tainted 4.9.0-gentoo #2 > [...] > Mem-Info: > active_anon:58685 inactive_anon:90 isolated_anon:0 > active_file:274324 inactive_file:281962 isolated_file:0 > unevictable:0 dirty:649 writeback:0 unstable:0 > slab_reclaimable:40662 slab_unreclaimable:17754 > mapped:7382 shmem:202 pagetables:351 bounce:0 > free:206736 free_pcp:332 free_cma:0 > Node 0 active_anon:234740kB inactive_anon:360kB active_file:1097296kB inactive_file:1127848kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:29528kB dirty:2596kB writeback:0kB shmem:0kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 184320kB anon_thp: 808kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > DMA free:3952kB min:788kB low:984kB high:1180kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:7316kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:96kB present:15992kB managed:15916kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:3200kB slab_unreclaimable:1408kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 813 3474 3474 > Normal free:41332kB min:41368kB low:51708kB high:62048kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:532748kB inactive_file:44kB unevictable:0kB writepending:24kB present:897016kB managed:836248kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:159448kB slab_unreclaimable:69608kB kernel_stack:1112kB pagetables:1404kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:528kB local_pcp:340kB free_cma:0kB > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 21292 21292 > HighMem free:781660kB min:512kB low:34356kB high:68200kB active_anon:234740kB inactive_anon:360kB active_file:557232kB inactive_file:1127804kB unevictable:0kB writepending:2592kB present:2725384kB managed:2725384kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:800kB local_pcp:608kB free_cma:0kB > > the oom killer is clearly pre-mature because there there is still a > lot of page cache in the zone Normal which should satisfy this lowmem > request. Further debugging has shown that the reclaim cannot make any > forward progress because the page cache is hidden in the active list > which doesn't get rotated because inactive_list_is_low is not memcg > aware. > It simply subtracts per-zone highmem counters from the respective > memcg's lru sizes which doesn't make any sense. We can simply end up > always seeing the resulting active and inactive counts 0 and return > false. This issue is not limited to 32b kernels but in practice the > effect on systems without CONFIG_HIGHMEM would be much harder to notice > because we do not invoke the OOM killer for allocations requests > targeting < ZONE_NORMAL. > > Fix the issue by tracking per zone lru page counts in mem_cgroup_per_node > and subtract per-memcg highmem counts when memcg is enabled. Introduce > helper lruvec_zone_lru_size which redirects to either zone counters or > mem_cgroup_get_zone_lru_size when appropriate. > > We are loosing empty LRU but non-zero lru size detection introduced by > ca707239e8a7 ("mm: update_lru_size warn and reset bad lru_size") because > of the inherent zone vs. node discrepancy. > > Fixes: f8d1a31163fc ("mm: consider whether to decivate based on eligible zones inactive ratio") > Cc: stable # 4.8+ > Reported-by: Nils Holland > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Minchan Kim