oom: badness heuristic rewrite

This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.

Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
hogging task.

The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
space.

The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
nodes or mems, respectively.

Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
memory, it is generally better to save root's task.

Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
or sharing the same memory controller.

/proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
be deprecated for future removal.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 111 insertions, 148 deletions

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 0a4ca8a0234b..d3def05a33d9 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
  *  Copyright (C)  1998,2000  Rik van Riel
  *      Thanks go out to Claus Fischer for some serious inspiration and
  *      for goading me into coding this file...
+ *  Copyright (C)  2010  Google, Inc.
+ *      Rewritten by David Rientjes
  *
  *  The routines in this file are used to kill a process when
  *  we're seriously out of memory. This gets called from __alloc_pages()
@@ -34,7 +36,6 @@ int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
 int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
 int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock);
-/* #define DEBUG */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 /**
@@ -140,137 +141,76 @@ static bool oom_unkillable_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 }
 
 /**
- * badness - calculate a numeric value for how bad this task has been
+ * oom_badness - heuristic function to determine which candidate task to kill
  * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate
- * @uptime: current uptime in seconds
+ * @totalpages: total present RAM allowed for page allocation
  *
- * The formula used is relatively simple and documented inline in the
- * function. The main rationale is that we want to select a good task
- * to kill when we run out of memory.
- *
- * Good in this context means that:
- * 1) we lose the minimum amount of work done
- * 2) we recover a large amount of memory
- * 3) we don't kill anything innocent of eating tons of memory
- * 4) we want to kill the minimum amount of processes (one)
- * 5) we try to kill the process the user expects us to kill, this
- *    algorithm has been meticulously tuned to meet the principle
- *    of least surprise ... (be careful when you change it)
+ * The heuristic for determining which task to kill is made to be as simple and
+ * predictable as possible.  The goal is to return the highest value for the
+ * task consuming the most memory to avoid subsequent oom failures.
  */
-unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-                      const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long uptime)
+unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
+                      const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long totalpages)
 {
-        unsigned long points, cpu_time, run_time;
-        struct task_struct *child;
-        struct task_struct *c, *t;
-        int oom_adj = p->signal->oom_adj;
-        struct task_cputime task_time;
-        unsigned long utime;
-        unsigned long stime;
+        int points;
 
         if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask))
                 return 0;
-        if (oom_adj == OOM_DISABLE)
-                return 0;
 
         p = find_lock_task_mm(p);
         if (!p)
                 return 0;
 
         /*
-         * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
-         */
-        points = p->mm->total_vm;
-        task_unlock(p);
-
-        /*
-         * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
-         */
-        if (p->flags & PF_OOM_ORIGIN)
-                return ULONG_MAX;
-
-        /*
-         * Processes which fork a lot of child processes are likely
-         * a good choice. We add half the vmsize of the children if they
-         * have an own mm. This prevents forking servers to flood the
-         * machine with an endless amount of children. In case a single
-         * child is eating the vast majority of memory, adding only half
-         * to the parents will make the child our kill candidate of choice.
+         * Shortcut check for OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN so the entire heuristic doesn't
+         * need to be executed for something that cannot be killed.
          */
-        t = p;
-        do {
-                list_for_each_entry(c, &t->children, sibling) {
-                        child = find_lock_task_mm(c);
-                        if (child) {
-                                if (child->mm != p->mm)
-                                        points += child->mm->total_vm/2 + 1;
-                                task_unlock(child);
-                        }
-                }
-        } while_each_thread(p, t);
+        if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) {
+                task_unlock(p);
+                return 0;
+        }
 
         /*
-         * CPU time is in tens of seconds and run time is in thousands
-         * of seconds. There is no particular reason for this other than
-         * that it turned out to work very well in practice.
+         * When the PF_OOM_ORIGIN bit is set, it indicates the task should have
+         * priority for oom killing.
          */
-        thread_group_cputime(p, &task_time);
-        utime = cputime_to_jiffies(task_time.utime);
-        stime = cputime_to_jiffies(task_time.stime);
-        cpu_time = (utime + stime) >> (SHIFT_HZ + 3);
-
-
-        if (uptime >= p->start_time.tv_sec)
-                run_time = (uptime - p->start_time.tv_sec) >> 10;
-        else
-                run_time = 0;
-
-        if (cpu_time)
-                points /= int_sqrt(cpu_time);
-        if (run_time)
-                points /= int_sqrt(int_sqrt(run_time));
+        if (p->flags & PF_OOM_ORIGIN) {
+                task_unlock(p);
+                return 1000;
+        }
 
         /*
-         * Niced processes are most likely less important, so double
-         * their badness points.
+         * The memory controller may have a limit of 0 bytes, so avoid a divide
+         * by zero, if necessary.
          */
-        if (task_nice(p) > 0)
-                points *= 2;
+        if (!totalpages)
+                totalpages = 1;
 
         /*
-         * Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it
-         * less likely that we kill those.
+         * The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
+         * task's rss and swap space use.
          */
-        if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
-            has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
-                points /= 4;
+        points = (get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS)) * 1000 /
+                        totalpages;
+        task_unlock(p);
 
         /*
-         * We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access.
-         * Not only could that mess up the hardware, but usually users
-         * tend to only have this flag set on applications they think
-         * of as important.
+         * Root processes get 3% bonus, just like the __vm_enough_memory()
+         * implementation used by LSMs.
          */
-        if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
-                points /= 4;
+        if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+                points -= 30;
 
         /*
-         * Adjust the score by oom_adj.
+         * /proc/pid/oom_score_adj ranges from -1000 to +1000 such that it may
+         * either completely disable oom killing or always prefer a certain
+         * task.
          */
-        if (oom_adj) {
-                if (oom_adj > 0) {
-                        if (!points)
-                                points = 1;
-                        points <<= oom_adj;
-                } else
-                        points >>= -(oom_adj);
-        }
+        points += p->signal->oom_score_adj;
 
-#ifdef DEBUG
-        printk(KERN_DEBUG "OOMkill: task %d (%s) got %lu points\n",
-        p->pid, p->comm, points);
-#endif
-        return points;
+        if (points < 0)
+                return 0;
+        return (points < 1000) ? points : 1000;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -278,12 +218,20 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
-                                    gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
+                                gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask,
+                                unsigned long *totalpages)
 {
         struct zone *zone;
         struct zoneref *z;
         enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+        bool cpuset_limited = false;
+        int nid;
 
+        /* Default to all available memory */
+        *totalpages = totalram_pages + total_swap_pages;
+
+        if (!zonelist)
+                return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
         /*
          * Reach here only when __GFP_NOFAIL is used. So, we should avoid
          * to kill current.We have to random task kill in this case.
@@ -293,26 +241,37 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
                 return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
 
         /*
-         * The nodemask here is a nodemask passed to alloc_pages(). Now,
-         * cpuset doesn't use this nodemask for its hardwall/softwall/hierarchy
-         * feature. mempolicy is an only user of nodemask here.
-         * check mempolicy's nodemask contains all N_HIGH_MEMORY
+         * This is not a __GFP_THISNODE allocation, so a truncated nodemask in
+         * the page allocator means a mempolicy is in effect.  Cpuset policy
+         * is enforced in get_page_from_freelist().
          */
-        if (nodemask && !nodes_subset(node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], *nodemask))
+        if (nodemask && !nodes_subset(node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], *nodemask)) {
+                *totalpages = total_swap_pages;
+                for_each_node_mask(nid, *nodemask)
+                        *totalpages += node_spanned_pages(nid);
                 return CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY;
+        }
 
         /* Check this allocation failure is caused by cpuset's wall function */
         for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
                         high_zoneidx, nodemask)
                 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask))
-                        return CONSTRAINT_CPUSET;
+                        cpuset_limited = true;
 
+        if (cpuset_limited) {
+                *totalpages = total_swap_pages;
+                for_each_node_mask(nid, cpuset_current_mems_allowed)
+                        *totalpages += node_spanned_pages(nid);
+                return CONSTRAINT_CPUSET;
+        }
         return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
 }
 #else
 static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
-                                gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
+                                gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask,
+                                unsigned long *totalpages)
 {
+        *totalpages = totalram_pages + total_swap_pages;
         return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
 }
 #endif
@@ -323,17 +282,16 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
  *
  * (not docbooked, we don't want this one cluttering up the manual)
  */
-static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
-                struct mem_cgroup *mem, const nodemask_t *nodemask)
+static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
+                unsigned long totalpages, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
+                const nodemask_t *nodemask)
 {
         struct task_struct *p;
         struct task_struct *chosen = NULL;
-        struct timespec uptime;
         *ppoints = 0;
 
-        do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime);
         for_each_process(p) {
-                unsigned long points;
+                unsigned int points;
 
                 if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask))
                         continue;
@@ -365,11 +323,11 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
                                 return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
 
                         chosen = p;
-                        *ppoints = ULONG_MAX;
+                        *ppoints = 1000;
                 }
 
-                points = badness(p, mem, nodemask, uptime.tv_sec);
-                if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) {
+                points = oom_badness(p, mem, nodemask, totalpages);
+                if (points > *ppoints) {
                         chosen = p;
                         *ppoints = points;
                 }
@@ -384,7 +342,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
  *
  * Dumps the current memory state of all system tasks, excluding kernel threads.
  * State information includes task's pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj
- * score, and name.
+ * value, oom_score_adj value, and name.
  *
  * If the actual is non-NULL, only tasks that are a member of the mem_cgroup are
  * shown.
@@ -396,8 +354,7 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
         struct task_struct *p;
         struct task_struct *task;
 
-        printk(KERN_INFO "[ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss cpu oom_adj "
-               "name\n");
+        pr_info("[ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name\n");
         for_each_process(p) {
                 if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
                         continue;
@@ -414,10 +371,11 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
                         continue;
                 }
 
-                printk(KERN_INFO "[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3u     %3d %s\n",
-                       task->pid, __task_cred(task)->uid, task->tgid,
-                       task->mm->total_vm, get_mm_rss(task->mm),
-                       task_cpu(task), task->signal->oom_adj, task->comm);
+                pr_info("[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3u     %3d         %5d %s\n",
+                        task->pid, __task_cred(task)->uid, task->tgid,
+                        task->mm->total_vm, get_mm_rss(task->mm),
+                        task_cpu(task), task->signal->oom_adj,
+                        task->signal->oom_score_adj, task->comm);
                 task_unlock(task);
         }
 }
@@ -427,8 +385,9 @@ static void dump_header(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
 {
         task_lock(current);
         pr_warning("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x, order=%d, "
-                "oom_adj=%d\n",
-                current->comm, gfp_mask, order, current->signal->oom_adj);
+                "oom_adj=%d, oom_score_adj=%d\n",
+                current->comm, gfp_mask, order, current->signal->oom_adj,
+                current->signal->oom_score_adj);
         cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current);
         task_unlock(current);
         dump_stack();
@@ -468,14 +427,14 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 #undef K
 
 static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
-                            unsigned long points, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-                            nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *message)
+                            unsigned int points, unsigned long totalpages,
+                            struct mem_cgroup *mem, nodemask_t *nodemask,
+                            const char *message)
 {
         struct task_struct *victim = p;
         struct task_struct *child;
         struct task_struct *t = p;
-        unsigned long victim_points = 0;
-        struct timespec uptime;
+        unsigned int victim_points = 0;
 
         if (printk_ratelimit())
                 dump_header(p, gfp_mask, order, mem);
@@ -491,7 +450,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
         }
 
         task_lock(p);
-        pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %lu or sacrifice child\n",
+        pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %d or sacrifice child\n",
                 message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);
         task_unlock(p);
 
@@ -501,14 +460,15 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
          * parent.  This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
          * still freeing memory.
          */
-        do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime);
         do {
                 list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
-                        unsigned long child_points;
+                        unsigned int child_points;
 
-                        /* badness() returns 0 if the thread is unkillable */
-                        child_points = badness(child, mem, nodemask,
-                                               uptime.tv_sec);
+                        /*
+                         * oom_badness() returns 0 if the thread is unkillable
+                         */
+                        child_points = oom_badness(child, mem, nodemask,
+                                                                totalpages);
                         if (child_points > victim_points) {
                                 victim = child;
                                 victim_points = child_points;
@@ -546,17 +506,19 @@ static void check_panic_on_oom(enum oom_constraint constraint, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
-        unsigned long points = 0;
+        unsigned long limit;
+        unsigned int points = 0;
         struct task_struct *p;
 
         check_panic_on_oom(CONSTRAINT_MEMCG, gfp_mask, 0);
+        limit = mem_cgroup_get_limit(mem) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 retry:
-        p = select_bad_process(&points, mem, NULL);
+        p = select_bad_process(&points, limit, mem, NULL);
         if (!p || PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
                 goto out;
 
-        if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, 0, points, mem, NULL,
+        if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, 0, points, limit, mem, NULL,
                                 "Memory cgroup out of memory"))
                 goto retry;
 out:
@@ -681,8 +643,9 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                 int order, nodemask_t *nodemask)
 {
         struct task_struct *p;
+        unsigned long totalpages;
         unsigned long freed = 0;
-        unsigned long points;
+        unsigned int points;
         enum oom_constraint constraint = CONSTRAINT_NONE;
 
         blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
@@ -705,8 +668,8 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
          * Check if there were limitations on the allocation (only relevant for
          * NUMA) that may require different handling.
          */
-        if (zonelist)
-                constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask, nodemask);
+        constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask, nodemask,
+                                                &totalpages);
         check_panic_on_oom(constraint, gfp_mask, order);
 
         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -718,14 +681,14 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                  * non-zero, current could not be killed so we must fallback to
                  * the tasklist scan.
                  */
-                if (!oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, NULL,
-                                nodemask,
+                if (!oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, 0, totalpages,
+                                NULL, nodemask,
                                 "Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)"))
                         return;
         }
 
 retry:
-        p = select_bad_process(&points, NULL,
+        p = select_bad_process(&points, totalpages, NULL,
                         constraint == CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY ? nodemask :
                                                                  NULL);
         if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
@@ -738,8 +701,8 @@ retry:
                 panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
         }
 
-        if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, order, points, NULL, nodemask,
-                             "Out of memory"))
+        if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, order, points, totalpages, NULL,
+                                nodemask, "Out of memory"))
                 goto retry;
         read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);