Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-03

Re: [PATCH v3] mm/oom_kill: show oom eligibility when displaying the current memory state of all tasks

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2021-08-01 20:01:19
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:20:02 +0100 Aaron Tomlin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Changes since v2:
 - Use single character (e.g. 'R' for MMF_OOM_SKIP) as suggested
   by Tetsuo Handa [off-list ref]
 - Add new header to oom_dump_tasks documentation
 - Provide further justification


The output generated by dump_tasks() can be helpful to determine why
there was an OOM condition and which rogue task potentially caused it.
Please note that this is only provided when sysctl oom_dump_tasks is
enabled.

At the present time, when showing potential OOM victims, we do not
exclude any task that are not OOM eligible e.g. those that have
MMF_OOM_SKIP set; it is possible that the last OOM killable victim was
already OOM killed, yet the OOM reaper failed to reclaim memory and set
MMF_OOM_SKIP. This can be confusing (or perhaps even be misleading) to the
viewer. Now, we already unconditionally display a task's oom_score_adj_min
value that can be set to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN which is indicative of an
"unkillable" task.

This patch provides a clear indication with regard to the OOM ineligibility
(and why) of each displayed task with the addition of a new column namely
"oom_skipped". An example is provided below:

    [ 5084.524970] [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj oom_skipped name
    [ 5084.526397] [660417]     0 660417    35869      683   167936        0         -1000 M conmon
    [ 5084.526400] [660452]     0 660452   175834      472    86016        0          -998  pod
    [ 5084.527460] [752415]     0 752415    35869      650   172032        0         -1000 M conmon
    [ 5084.527462] [752575] 1001050000 752575   184205    11158   700416        0           999  npm
    [ 5084.527467] [753606] 1001050000 753606   183380    46843  2134016        0           999  node
    [ 5084.527581] Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 753606 (node) total-vm:733520kB, anon-rss:161228kB, file-rss:26144kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1001050000

So, a single character 'M' is for OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN, 'R' MMF_OOM_SKIP and
'V' for in_vfork().

index 003d5cc3751b..4c79fa00ddb3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -650,8 +650,9 @@ oom_dump_tasks
 Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be produced
 when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such information as
 pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, pgtables_bytes, swapents, oom_score_adj
-score, and name.  This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was
-invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and to determine why
+score, oom eligibility status and name.  This is helpful to determine why
+the OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and
+to determine why
It would be better if the meaning of 'M', 'R' and 'V' were described here.
 the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill.
 
+/**
+ * is_task_eligible_oom - determine if and why a task cannot be OOM killed
+ * @tsk: task to check
+ *
+ * Needs to be called with task_lock().
+ */
+static const char * const is_task_oom_eligible(struct task_struct *p)
Name seems inappropriate.  task_oom_eligibility()?
+{
+	long adj;
+
+	adj = (long)p->signal->oom_score_adj;
+	if (adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN)
+		return "M";
+	else if (test_bit(MMF_OOM_SKIP, &p->mm->flags)
+		return "R";
+	else if (in_vfork(p))
+		return "V";
+	else
+		return "";
+}
  
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