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authorDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>2009-12-15 16:47:12 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-01-06 15:04:37 -0800
commitad46fed9c9b596b6ece5728aad3722a9c4acc8cb (patch)
treeb4061eeb249f533cd13a09353865756586b0164f
parentb52d85562809f1e8b03d03f6ebc5aa28405d0576 (diff)
memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy
commit d31f56dbf8bafaacb0c617f9a6f137498d5c7aed upstream. task_in_mem_cgroup(), which is called by select_bad_process() to check whether a task can be a candidate for being oom-killed from memcg's limit, checks "curr->use_hierarchy"("curr" is the mem_cgroup the task belongs to). But this check return true(it's false positive) when: <some path>/aa use_hierarchy == 0 <- hitting limit <some path>/aa/00 use_hierarchy == 1 <- the task belongs to This leads to killing an innocent task in aa/00. This patch is a fix for this bug. And this patch also fixes the arg for mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(). We should print information of mem_cgroup which the task being killed, not current, belongs to. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c8
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 63140151b618..5dc10374d769 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -758,7 +758,13 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
task_unlock(task);
if (!curr)
return 0;
- if (curr->use_hierarchy)
+ /*
+ * We should check use_hierarchy of "mem" not "curr". Because checking
+ * use_hierarchy of "curr" here make this function true if hierarchy is
+ * enabled in "curr" and "curr" is a child of "mem" in *cgroup*
+ * hierarchy(even if use_hierarchy is disabled in "mem").
+ */
+ if (mem->use_hierarchy)
ret = css_is_ancestor(&curr->css, &mem->css);
else
ret = (curr == mem);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index ea2147dabba6..9092b43f07fa 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current);
task_unlock(current);
dump_stack();
- mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, current);
+ mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, p);
show_mem();
if (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks)
dump_tasks(mem);