[PATCH v2] memcg: killed threads should not invoke memcg OOM killer

[Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>]

From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

If $N > $M, a single process with $N threads in a memcg group can easily
kill all $M processes in that memcg group, for mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()
does not check if current thread needs to invoke the memcg OOM killer.

  T1@P1     |T2...$N@P1|P2...$M   |OOM reaper
  ----------+----------+----------+----------
                        # all sleeping
  try_charge()
    mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()
      mutex_lock(oom_lock)
             try_charge()
               mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()
                 mutex_lock(oom_lock)
      out_of_memory()
        select_bad_process()
        oom_kill_process(P1)
        wake_oom_reaper()
                                   oom_reap_task() # ignores P1
      mutex_unlock(oom_lock)
                 out_of_memory()
                   select_bad_process(P2...$M)
                        # all killed by T2...$N@P1
                   wake_oom_reaper()
                                   oom_reap_task() # ignores P2...$M
                 mutex_unlock(oom_lock)

We don't need to invoke the memcg OOM killer if current thread was killed
when waiting for oom_lock, for mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(true) can count
on try_charge() when mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(true) can not make forward
progress because try_charge() allows already killed/exiting threads to
make forward progress, and memory_max_write() can bail out upon signals.

At first Michal thought that fatal signal check is racy compared to
tsk_is_oom_victim() check. But an experiment showed that trying to call
mark_oom_victim() on all killed thread groups is more racy than fatal
signal check due to task_will_free_mem(current) path in out_of_memory().

Therefore, this patch changes mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() to bail out upon
should_force_charge() == T rather than upon fatal_signal_pending() == T,
for should_force_charge() == T && signal_pending(current) == F at
memory_max_write() can't happen because current thread won't call
memory_max_write() after getting PF_EXITING.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index af7f18b..79a7d2a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ enum res_type {
 	     iter != NULL;				\
 	     iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL))
 
+static inline bool should_force_charge(void)
+{
+	return tsk_is_oom_victim(current) || fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
+		(current->flags & PF_EXITING);
+}
+
 /* Some nice accessors for the vmpressure. */
 struct vmpressure *memcg_to_vmpressure(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
@@ -1389,8 +1395,13 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	};
 	bool ret;
 
-	mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
-	ret = out_of_memory(&oc);
+	if (mutex_lock_killable(&oom_lock))
+		return true;
+	/*
+	 * 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);
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2209,9 +2220,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	 * bypass the last charges so that they can exit quickly and
 	 * free their memory.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(tsk_is_oom_victim(current) ||
-		     fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
-		     current->flags & PF_EXITING))
+	if (unlikely(should_force_charge()))
 		goto force;
 
 	/*
-- 
1.8.3.1