From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> mainline inclusion from mainline-v6.8-rc3 commit 63fd327016fdfca6f2fa27eba3496bd079eb8ed3 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://atomgit.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/9095 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While investigating hosts with high cgroup memory pressures, Tejun found culprit zombie tasks that had were holding on to a lot of memory, had SIGKILL pending, but were stuck in memory.high reclaim. In the past, we used to always force-charge allocations from tasks that were exiting in order to accelerate them dying and freeing up their rss. This changed for memory.max in a4ebf1b6ca1e ("memcg: prohibit unconditional exceeding the limit of dying tasks"); it noted that this can cause (userspace inducable) containment failures, so it added a mandatory reclaim and OOM kill cycle before forcing charges. At the time, memory.high enforcement was handled in the userspace return path, which isn't reached by dying tasks, and so memory.high was still never enforced by dying tasks. When c9afe31ec443 ("memcg: synchronously enforce memory.high for large overcharges") added synchronous reclaim for memory.high, it added unconditional memory.high enforcement for dying tasks as well. The callstack shows that this path is where the zombie is stuck in. We need to accelerate dying tasks getting past memory.high, but we cannot do it quite the same way as we do for memory.max: memory.max is enforced strictly, and tasks aren't allowed to move past it without FIRST reclaiming and OOM killing if necessary. This ensures very small levels of excess. With memory.high, though, enforcement happens lazily after the charge, and OOM killing is never triggered. A lot of concurrent threads could have pushed, or could actively be pushing, the cgroup into excess. The dying task will enter reclaim on every allocation attempt, with little hope of restoring balance. To fix this, skip synchronous memory.high enforcement on dying tasks altogether again. Update memory.high path documentation while at it. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: also handle tasks are being killed during the reclaim] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240111192807.GA424308@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240111132902.389862-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: c9afe31ec443 ("memcg: synchronously enforce memory.high for large overcharges") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Conflicts: mm/memcontrol.c [hulk feature: 'fine grained stall' causes conflicts] Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index ac2b4b1060fd..46411dead693 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2769,8 +2769,9 @@ static unsigned long calculate_high_delay(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, } /* - * Scheduled by try_charge() to be executed from the userland return path - * and reclaims memory over the high limit. + * Reclaims memory over the high limit. Called directly from + * try_charge() (context permitting), as well as from the userland + * return path where reclaim is always able to block. */ void mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(gfp_t gfp_mask) { @@ -2789,6 +2790,17 @@ void mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(gfp_t gfp_mask) current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high = 0; retry_reclaim: + /* + * Bail if the task is already exiting. Unlike memory.max, + * memory.high enforcement isn't as strict, and there is no + * OOM killer involved, which means the excess could already + * be much bigger (and still growing) than it could for + * memory.max; the dying task could get stuck in fruitless + * reclaim for a long time, which isn't desirable. + */ + if (task_is_dying()) + goto out; + /* * The allocating task should reclaim at least the batch size, but for * subsequent retries we only want to do what's necessary to prevent oom @@ -2839,6 +2851,9 @@ void mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(gfp_t gfp_mask) } /* + * Reclaim didn't manage to push usage below the limit, slow + * this allocating task down. + * * If we exit early, we're guaranteed to die (since * schedule_timeout_killable sets TASK_KILLABLE). This means we don't * need to account for any ill-begotten jiffies to pay them off later. @@ -3049,11 +3064,17 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, } } while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))); + /* + * Reclaim is set up above to be called from the userland + * return path. But also attempt synchronous reclaim to avoid + * excessive overrun while the task is still inside the + * kernel. If this is successful, the return path will see it + * when it rechecks the overage and simply bail out. + */ if (current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH && !(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) && - gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask)) { + gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask)) mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(gfp_mask); - } return 0; } -- 2.43.0