On Thu 18-07-19 01:45:26, Yang Shi wrote:
> Shakeel Butt reported premature oom on kernel with
> "cgroup_disable=memory" since mem_cgroup_is_root() returns false even
> though memcg is actually NULL. The drop_caches is also broken.
>
> It is because commit aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab()
> calls in shrink_node()") removed the !memcg check before
> !mem_cgroup_is_root(). And, surprisingly root memcg is allocated even
> though memory cgroup is disabled by kernel boot parameter.
>
> Add mem_cgroup_disabled() check to make reclaimer work as expected.
>
> Fixes: aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in
> shrink_node()")
> Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shake...@google.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov....@gmail.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Cc: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org 4.19+
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index f8e3dcd..c10dc02 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -684,7 +684,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
> unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
> struct shrinker *shrinker;
>
> - if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> + /*
> + * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled
> + * via "cgroup_disable=memory" boot parameter. This could make
> + * mem_cgroup_is_root() return false, then just run memcg slab
> + * shrink, but skip global shrink. This may result in premature
> + * oom.
> + */
> + if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority);
>
> if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
> --
> 1.8.3.1
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
