[patch v3] mm, oom: prevent soft lockup on memcg oom for UP systems

[David Rientjes]

When a process is oom killed as a result of memcg limits and the victim
is waiting to exit, nothing ends up actually yielding the processor back
to the victim on UP systems with preemption disabled.  Instead, the
charging process simply loops in memcg reclaim and eventually soft
lockups.

For example, on an UP system with a memcg limited to 100MB, if three 
processes each charge 40MB of heap with swap disabled, one of the charging 
processes can loop endlessly trying to charge memory which starves the oom 
victim.

Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 808 (repro) total-vm:41944kB, 
anon-rss:35344kB, file-rss:504kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:108kB 
oom_score_adj:0
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [repro:806]
CPU: 0 PID: 806 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5+ #136
RIP: 0010:shrink_lruvec+0x4e9/0xa40
...
Call Trace:
 shrink_node+0x40d/0x7d0
 do_try_to_free_pages+0x13f/0x470
 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x16d/0x230
 try_charge+0x247/0xac0
 mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x10a/0x220
 mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1e/0x40
 handle_mm_fault+0xdf2/0x15f0
 do_user_addr_fault+0x21f/0x420
 page_fault+0x2f/0x40

Make sure that once the oom killer has been called that we forcibly yield 
if current is not the chosen victim regardless of priority to allow for 
memory freeing.  The same situation can theoretically occur in the page 
allocator, so do this after dropping oom_lock there as well.

We used to have a short sleep after oom killing, but commit 9bfe5ded054b
("mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock") removed it because sleeping
inside the oom_lock is dangerous. This patch restores the sleep outside of
the lock.

Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Robert Kolchmeyer <rkolchmeyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1576,6 +1576,12 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	 */
 	ret = should_force_charge() || out_of_memory(&oc);
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
+        /*
+         * Give a killed process a good chance to exit before trying to
+         * charge memory again.
+         */
+	if (ret)
+		schedule_timeout_killable(1);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3861,6 +3861,12 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	}
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
+	/*
+	 * Give a killed process a good chance to exit before trying to
+	 * allocate memory again.
+	 */
+	if (*did_some_progress)
+		schedule_timeout_killable(1);
 	return page;
 }