Re: memory-cgroup bug

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 21-11-12 20:02:07, azurIt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm using memory cgroup for limiting our users and having a really
> strange problem when a cgroup gets out of its memory limit. It's very
> strange because it happens only sometimes (about once per week on
> random user), out of memory is usually handled ok.

What is your memcg configuration? Do you use deeper hierarchies, is
use_hierarchy enabled? Is the memcg oom (aka memory.oom_control)
enabled? Do you use soft limit for those groups? Is memcg swap
accounting enabled and memsw limits in place?
Is the machine under global memory pressure as well?
Could you post sysrq+t or sysrq+w?

> This happens when problem occures:
>  - no new processes can be started for this cgroup
>  - current processes are freezed and taking 100% of CPU
>  - when i try to 'strace' any of current processes, the whole strace
>    freezes until process is killed (strace cannot be terminated by
>    CTRL-c)
>  - problem can be resolved by raising memory limit for cgroup or
>    killing of few processes inside cgroup so some memory is freed
> 
> I also garbbed the content of /proc/<pid>/stack of freezed process:
> [<ffffffff8110a9c1>] mem_cgroup_handle_oom+0x241/0x3b0
> [<ffffffff8110b5ab>] T.1146+0x5ab/0x5c0

Hmm what is this?

> [<ffffffff8110ba56>] mem_cgroup_charge_common+0x56/0xa0
> [<ffffffff8110bae5>] mem_cgroup_newpage_charge+0x45/0x50
> [<ffffffff810ec54e>] do_wp_page+0x14e/0x800
> [<ffffffff810eda34>] handle_pte_fault+0x264/0x940
> [<ffffffff810ee248>] handle_mm_fault+0x138/0x260
> [<ffffffff810270ed>] do_page_fault+0x13d/0x460
> [<ffffffff815b53ff>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>

How many tasks are hung in mem_cgroup_handle_oom? If there were many
of them then it'd smell like an issue fixed by 79dfdaccd1d5 (memcg:
make oom_lock 0 and 1 based rather than counter) and its follow up fix
23751be00940 (memcg: fix hierarchical oom locking) but you are saying
that you can reproduce with 3.2 and those went in for 3.1. 2.6.32 would
make more sense.

> I'm currently using kernel 3.2.34 but i'm having this problem since 2.6.32.

I guess this is a clean vanilla (stable) kernel, right? Are you able to
reproduce with the latest Linus tree?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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