mm, memcg: introduce own oom handler to iterate only over its own threads

The global oom killer is serialized by the per-zonelist
try_set_zonelist_oom() which is used in the page allocator.  Concurrent
oom kills are thus a rare event and only occur in systems using
mempolicies and with a large number of nodes.

Memory controller oom kills, however, can frequently be concurrent since
there is no serialization once the oom killer is called for oom conditions
in several different memcgs in parallel.

This creates a massive contention on tasklist_lock since the oom killer
requires the readside for the tasklist iteration.  If several memcgs are
calling the oom killer, this lock can be held for a substantial amount of
time, especially if threads continue to enter it as other threads are
exiting.

Since the exit path grabs the writeside of the lock with irqs disabled in
a few different places, this can cause a soft lockup on cpus as a result
of tasklist_lock starvation.

The kernel lacks unfair writelocks, and successful calls to the oom killer
usually result in at least one thread entering the exit path, so an
alternative solution is needed.

This patch introduces a seperate oom handler for memcgs so that they do
not require tasklist_lock for as much time.  Instead, it iterates only
over the threads attached to the oom memcg and grabs a reference to the
selected thread before calling oom_kill_process() to ensure it doesn't
prematurely exit.

This still requires tasklist_lock for the tasklist dump, iterating
children of the selected process, and killing all other threads on the
system sharing the same memory as the selected victim.  So while this
isn't a complete solution to tasklist_lock starvation, it significantly
reduces the amount of time that it is held.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index c0bff8976a6..2a80544aec9 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(struct page *page,
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
 						gfp_t gfp_mask,
 						unsigned long *total_scanned);
-u64 mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
+extern void __mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+				       int order);
 
 void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx);
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -364,12 +365,6 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline
-u64 mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static inline void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head)
 {
 }