From daaf1e68874c078a15ae6ae827751839c4d81739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:32 -0800 Subject: memcg: handle panic_on_oom=always case Presently, if panic_on_oom=2, the whole system panics even if the oom happend in some special situation (as cpuset, mempolicy....). Then, panic_on_oom=2 means painc_on_oom_always. Now, memcg doesn't check panic_on_oom flag. This patch adds a check. BTW, how it's useful ? kdump+panic_on_oom=2 is the last tool to investigate what happens in oom-ed system. When a task is killed, the sysytem recovers and there will be few hint to know what happnes. In mission critical system, oom should never happen. Then, panic_on_oom=2+kdump is useful to avoid next OOM by knowing precise information via snapshot. TODO: - For memcg, it's for isolate system's memory usage, oom-notiifer and freeze_at_oom (or rest_at_oom) should be implemented. Then, management daemon can do similar jobs (as kdump) or taking snapshot per cgroup. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Nick Piggin Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 5 ++++- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 268ab08222d..f8bc802d70b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ list. NOTE: Reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set any limits on the root cgroup. +Note2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic. + 2. Locking The memory controller uses the following hierarchy @@ -379,7 +381,8 @@ The feature can be disabled by NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other cgroups created below it. -NOTE2: This feature can be enabled/disabled per subtree. +NOTE2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic in +case of an oom event in any cgroup. 7. Soft limits diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index fc5790d36cd..6c7d18c53f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -573,11 +573,14 @@ Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status may be not fatal yet. If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the -above-mentioned. +above-mentioned. Even oom happens under memory cgroup, the whole +system panics. The default value is 0. 1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either according to your policy of failover. +panic_on_oom=2+kdump gives you very strong tool to investigate +why oom happens. You can get snapshot. ============================================================= -- cgit v1.2.3