linux/mm
Michal Hocko b4536f0c82 mm, memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when memcg is enabled
Nils Holland and Klaus Ethgen have 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.

The code 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 losing empty LRU but non-zero lru size detection introduced by
ca707239e8 ("mm: update_lru_size warn and reset bad lru_size") because
of the inherent zone vs. node discrepancy.

Fixes: f8d1a31163 ("mm: consider whether to decivate based on eligible zones inactive ratio")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104100825.3729-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Tested-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Reported-by: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
..
kasan Power management material for v4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 10:41:53 -08:00
backing-dev.c writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages() 2016-11-08 08:28:55 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
cleancache.c
cma.c mm/cma.c: check the max limit for cma allocation 2016-11-11 08:12:37 -08:00
cma.h
cma_debug.c
compaction.c mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS requests 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c dax: fix deadlock with DAX 4k holes 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -08:00
frame_vector.c mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:11:24 -07:00
frontswap.c
gup.c mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked() 2016-12-14 16:04:09 -08:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm: add tlb_remove_check_page_size_change to track page size change 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: THP page cache support for ppc64 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
Kconfig.debug PM / Hibernate: allow hibernation with PAGE_POISONING_ZERO 2016-09-13 02:35:27 +02:00
khugepaged.c mm: get rid of __GFP_OTHER_NODE 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c kmemleak: fix reference to Documentation 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
ksm.c mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node() 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref 2016-10-27 18:43:42 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: add tlb_remove_check_page_size_change to track page size change 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
Makefile Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all 2016-10-12 10:23:41 -07:00
memblock.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm, memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when memcg is enabled 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
memory.c dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove x86-only restriction of movable_node 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
mempolicy.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
mincore.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mlock.c thp: fix corner case of munlock() of PTE-mapped THPs 2016-11-30 16:32:52 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mremap.c mremap: move_ptes: check pte dirty after its removal 2016-11-29 08:20:24 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
nommu.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: print nodemask in the oom report 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
page-writeback.c radix-tree: delete radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged() 2016-12-14 16:04:10 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_idle.c
page_io.c writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() 2016-11-02 10:24:03 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation: fix typo: "paes" -> "pages" 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_poison.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2016-12-13 12:34:47 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked() 2016-12-14 16:04:09 -08:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm, rmap: handle anon_vma_prepare() common case inline 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
shmem.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
slab.c Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-12-13 12:59:57 -08:00
slab.h mm, slab: maintain total slab count instead of active count 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common.c: check kmem_create_cache flags are common 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
slob.c slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on shrink 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
slub.c slub: avoid false-postive warning 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_state.c mm, swap: use offset of swap entry as key of swap cache 2016-10-07 18:46:28 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: add three more cond_resched() in swapoff 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
truncate.c mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate 2016-12-26 20:29:24 -08:00
usercopy.c mm: usercopy: Check for module addresses 2016-09-20 16:07:39 -07:00
userfaultfd.c
util.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
vmacache.c mm: unrig VMA cache hit ratio 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
vmalloc.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c mm, memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when memcg is enabled 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-12-02 00:52:35 +01:00
workingset.c mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker 2017-01-07 18:22:40 -08:00
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-12-02 00:52:36 +01:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: Convert pool to hotplug state machine 2016-12-02 00:52:36 +01:00