memcg: oom kill disable and oom status

This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled, of
course, tasks under memcg will stop.

But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg.  And the world around memcg is
not under out-of-memory.  memcg's out-of-memory just shows memcg hits
limit.  Then, administrator or management daemon can recover the situation
by

	- kill some process
	- enlarge limit, add more swap.
	- migrate some tasks
	- remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?)

Unlike oom-killer, you can take enough information before killing tasks.
(by gcore, or, ps etc.)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index eac22d3b2f7b..44e7ded33448 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -493,6 +493,8 @@ It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup.
 
 10. OOM Control
 
+memory.oom_control file is for OOM notification and other controls.
+
 Memory controler implements oom notifier using cgroup notification
 API (See cgroups.txt). It allows to register multiple oom notification
 delivery and gets notification when oom happens.
@@ -505,6 +507,27 @@ To register a notifier, application need:
 Application will be notifier through eventfd when oom happens.
 OOM notification doesn't work for root cgroup.
 
+You can disable oom-killer by writing "1" to memory.oom_control file.
+As.
+        #echo 1 > memory.oom_control
+
+This operation is only allowed to the top cgroup of subhierarchy.
+If oom-killer is disabled, tasks under cgroup will hang/sleep
+in memcg's oom-waitq when they request accountable memory.
+
+For running them, you have to relax the memcg's oom sitaution by
+        * enlarge limit or reduce usage.
+To reduce usage,
+        * kill some tasks.
+        * move some tasks to other group with account migration.
+        * remove some files (on tmpfs?)
+
+Then, stopped tasks will work again.
+
+At reading, current status of OOM is shown.
+        oom_kill_disable 0 or 1 (if 1, oom-killer is disabled)
+        under_oom        0 or 1 (if 1, the memcg is under OOM,tasks may
+                                 be stopped.)
 
 11. TODO