From 3c11ecf448eff8f12922c498b8274ce98587eb74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:42:37 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 -- cgit v1.2.1