mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults

System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory
situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM.

Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the
only option available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Weiner
2013-09-12 15:13:42 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3a13c4d761
commit 519e52473e
5 changed files with 88 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -1614,6 +1614,7 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
struct page *page;
bool memcg_oom;
pgoff_t size;
int ret = 0;
@@ -1622,7 +1623,11 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
/*
* Do we have something in the page cache already?
* Do we have something in the page cache already? Either
* way, try readahead, but disable the memcg OOM killer for it
* as readahead is optional and no errors are propagated up
* the fault stack. The OOM killer is enabled while trying to
* instantiate the faulting page individually below.
*/
page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
if (likely(page) && !(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED)) {
@@ -1630,10 +1635,14 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
* We found the page, so try async readahead before
* waiting for the lock.
*/
memcg_oom = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(false);
do_async_mmap_readahead(vma, ra, file, page, offset);
mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(memcg_oom);
} else if (!page) {
/* No page in the page cache at all */
memcg_oom = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(false);
do_sync_mmap_readahead(vma, ra, file, offset);
mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(memcg_oom);
count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
ret = VM_FAULT_MAJOR;