Commit 726d061fbd ("mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty
pages on the LRU") added flusher invocation to shrink_inactive_list()
when many dirty pages on the LRU are encountered.
However, shrink_inactive_list() doesn't wake up flushers for legacy
cgroup reclaim, so the next commit bbef938429 ("mm: vmscan: remove old
flusher wakeup from direct reclaim path") removed the only source of
flusher's wake up in legacy mem cgroup reclaim path.
This leads to premature OOM if there is too many dirty pages in cgroup:
# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/tasks
# echo 50M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp_file bs=1M count=100
Killed
dd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x14000c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x46/0x65
dump_header+0x6b/0x2ac
oom_kill_process+0x21c/0x4a0
out_of_memory+0x2a5/0x4b0
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x3b/0x60
mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize+0x2ed/0x330
pagefault_out_of_memory+0x24/0x54
__do_page_fault+0x521/0x540
page_fault+0x45/0x50
Task in /test killed as a result of limit of /test
memory: usage 51200kB, limit 51200kB, failcnt 73
memory+swap: usage 51200kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
kmem: usage 296kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
Memory cgroup stats for /test: cache:49632KB rss:1056KB rss_huge:0KB shmem:0KB
mapped_file:0KB dirty:49500KB writeback:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB
active_anon:1168KB inactive_file:24760KB active_file:24960KB unevictable:0KB
Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 3861 (bash) score 88 or sacrifice child
Killed process 3876 (dd) total-vm:8484kB, anon-rss:1052kB, file-rss:1720kB, shmem-rss:0kB
oom_reaper: reaped process 3876 (dd), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
Wake up flushers in legacy cgroup reclaim too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180315164553.17856-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: bbef938429 ("mm: vmscan: remove old flusher wakeup from direct reclaim path")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1c610d5f93