linux-yocto/mm
Feng Tang c65b1bd0af mm/page_alloc: detect allocation forbidden by cpuset and bail out early
[ Upstream commit 8ca1b5a498 ]

There was a report that starting an Ubuntu in docker while using cpuset
to bind it to movable nodes (a node only has movable zone, like a node
for hotplug or a Persistent Memory node in normal usage) will fail due
to memory allocation failure, and then OOM is involved and many other
innocent processes got killed.

It can be reproduced with command:

    $ docker run -it --rm --cpuset-mems 4 ubuntu:latest bash -c "grep Mems_allowed /proc/self/status"

(where node 4 is a movable node)

  runc:[2:INIT] invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x500cc2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_ACCOUNT), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
  CPU: 8 PID: 8291 Comm: runc:[2:INIT] Tainted: G        W I E     5.8.2-0.g71b519a-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0PHYDR, BIOS 2.6.4 04/09/2020
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x6b/0x88
   dump_header+0x4a/0x1e2
   oom_kill_process.cold+0xb/0x10
   out_of_memory.part.0+0xaf/0x230
   out_of_memory+0x3d/0x80
   __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x954/0xa20
   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2d3/0x300
   pipe_write+0x322/0x590
   new_sync_write+0x196/0x1b0
   vfs_write+0x1c3/0x1f0
   ksys_write+0xa7/0xe0
   do_syscall_64+0x52/0xd0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

  Mem-Info:
  active_anon:392832 inactive_anon:182 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:68130 inactive_file:151527 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:2701 dirty:0 writeback:7
   slab_reclaimable:51418 slab_unreclaimable:116300
   mapped:45825 shmem:735 pagetables:2540 bounce:0
   free:159849484 free_pcp:73 free_cma:0
  Node 4 active_anon:1448kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB shmem:0kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB all_unreclaimable? no
  Node 4 Movable free:130021408kB min:9140kB low:139160kB high:269180kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:1448kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:130023424kB managed:130023424kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:292kB local_pcp:84kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 0
  Node 4 Movable: 1*4kB (M) 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB (M) 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB (M) 1*512kB (M) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 31743*4096kB (M) = 130021156kB

  oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_CPUSET,nodemask=(null),cpuset=docker-9976a269caec812c134fa317f27487ee36e1129beba7278a463dd53e5fb9997b.scope,mems_allowed=4,global_oom,task_memcg=/system.slice/containerd.service,task=containerd,pid=4100,uid=0
  Out of memory: Killed process 4100 (containerd) total-vm:4077036kB, anon-rss:51184kB, file-rss:26016kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:676kB oom_score_adj:0
  oom_reaper: reaped process 8248 (docker), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 2054 (node_exporter), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 1452 (systemd-journal), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8564kB, shmem-rss:4kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 2146 (munin-node), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 8291 (runc:[2:INIT]), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

The reason is that in this case, the target cpuset nodes only have
movable zone, while the creation of an OS in docker sometimes needs to
allocate memory in non-movable zones (dma/dma32/normal) like
GFP_HIGHUSER, and the cpuset limit forbids the allocation, then
out-of-memory killing is involved even when normal nodes and movable
nodes both have many free memory.

The OOM killer cannot help to resolve the situation as there is no
usable memory for the request in the cpuset scope.  The only reasonable
measure to take is to fail the allocation right away and have the caller
to deal with it.

So add a check for cases like this in the slowpath of allocation, and
bail out early returning NULL for the allocation.

As page allocation is one of the hottest path in kernel, this check will
hurt all users with sane cpuset configuration, add a static branch check
and detect the abnormal config in cpuset memory binding setup so that
the extra check cost in page allocation is not paid by everyone.

[thanks to Micho Hocko and David Rientjes for suggesting not handling
 it inside OOM code, adding cpuset check, refining comments]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1632481657-68112-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 65f97cc81b0a ("cgroup/cpuset: Use static_branch_enable_cpuslocked() on cpusets_insane_config_key")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-08-28 16:22:58 +02:00
..
kasan kasan: print the original fault addr when access invalid shadow 2023-11-08 17:30:43 +01:00
backing-dev.c writeback, cgroup: remove extra percpu_ref_exit() 2023-05-30 12:57:56 +01:00
balloon_compaction.c
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c
cma.c mm/cma: use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation 2023-11-28 16:54:58 +00:00
cma.h
compaction.c mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations 2024-04-13 12:59:22 +02:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c mm/debug_vm_pgtable: remove pte entry from the page table 2022-02-08 18:30:35 +01:00
debug.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: drop the assumption that VM_SHARED always implies writable 2025-08-28 16:22:54 +02:00
frame_vector.c media: vb2: frame_vector.c: replace WARN_ONCE with a comment 2023-10-10 21:53:33 +02:00
frontswap.c
gup_benchmark.c mm/gup_benchmark: take the mmap lock around GUP 2020-10-18 09:27:09 -07:00
gup.c mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page failed 2023-02-15 17:22:21 +01:00
highmem.c mm/highmem.c: clean up endif comments 2020-10-16 11:11:18 -07:00
hmm.c mm/hmm: move pmd_to_hmm_pfn_flags() to the respective #ifdeffery 2025-08-28 16:22:38 +02:00
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry 2025-06-27 11:04:24 +01:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: fix imbalanced css_get and css_put pair for shared mappings 2021-03-30 14:31:54 +02:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race 2025-06-27 11:04:21 +01:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork 2020-12-30 11:53:54 +01:00
internal.h mm: unconditionally close VMAs on error 2024-12-14 19:47:40 +01:00
interval_tree.c
ioremap.c
Kconfig mm/zsmalloc.c: drop ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c mm/khugepaged: check again on anon uffd-wp during isolation 2023-04-26 11:27:38 +02:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock 2025-08-28 16:22:48 +02:00
ksm.c ksm: fix potential missing rmap_item for stable_node 2021-05-19 10:13:07 +02:00
list_lru.c mm: list_lru: set shrinker map bit when child nr_items is not zero 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
maccess.c maccess: Fix writing offset in case of fault in strncpy_from_kernel_nofault() 2022-11-25 17:45:53 +01:00
madvise.c mm: drop the assumption that VM_SHARED always implies writable 2025-08-28 16:22:54 +02:00
Makefile
mapping_dirty_helpers.c
memblock.c Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()." 2023-02-22 12:55:56 +01:00
memcontrol.c memcg: always call cond_resched() after fn() 2025-06-04 14:37:08 +02:00
memfd.c mm: reinstate ability to map write-sealed memfd mappings read-only 2025-08-28 16:22:55 +02:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug: use pfn math in place of direct struct page manipulation 2023-11-28 16:54:58 +00:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure: fix an incorrect use of tail pages 2024-04-13 12:59:01 +02:00
memory.c mm: fix apply_to_existing_page_range() 2025-05-02 07:41:09 +02:00
mempolicy.c migrate: hugetlb: check for hugetlb shared PMD in node migration 2023-02-15 17:22:21 +01:00
mempool.c
memremap.c mm/memremap.c: map FS_DAX device memory as decrypted 2022-11-16 09:57:17 +01:00
memtest.c memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning 2024-04-13 12:58:39 +02:00
migrate.c mm/migrate: set swap entry values of THP tail pages properly. 2024-04-13 12:59:02 +02:00
mincore.c fs: add file and path permissions helpers 2024-06-21 14:52:58 +02:00
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: reinstate ability to map write-sealed memfd mappings read-only 2025-08-28 16:22:55 +02:00
mmu_gather.c mm/khugepaged: fix GUP-fast interaction by sending IPI 2022-12-14 11:31:55 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier.c: fix race in mmu_interval_notifier_remove() 2022-04-27 13:53:54 +02:00
mmzone.c arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2022-05-15 20:00:09 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: don't try to NUMA-migrate COW pages that have other uses 2022-02-23 12:00:57 +01:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: hold the rmap lock in write mode when moving page table entries. 2022-08-21 15:15:21 +02:00
msync.c
nommu.c mm: refactor arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() and arm64 MTE handling 2024-12-14 19:47:40 +01:00
oom_kill.c memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process 2025-03-13 12:47:26 +01:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc: detect allocation forbidden by cpuset and bail out early 2025-08-28 16:22:58 +02:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c mm: fix unexpected zeroed page mapping with zram swap 2022-04-20 09:23:25 +02:00
page_isolation.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_owner.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_poison.c
page_reporting.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_reporting.h
page_vma_mapped.c mm/thp: another PVMW_SYNC fix in page_vma_mapped_walk() 2021-06-30 08:47:29 -04:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix ratelimit_pages update error in dirty_ratio_handler() 2025-06-27 11:04:14 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker 2022-09-08 11:11:38 +02:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: make pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages per chunk type 2021-04-14 08:42:03 +02:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c percpu: make pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages per chunk type 2021-04-14 08:42:03 +02:00
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c percpu: make pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages per chunk type 2021-04-14 08:42:03 +02:00
pgalloc-track.h
pgtable-generic.c mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() on shmem migration entry 2021-06-30 08:47:26 -04:00
process_vm_access.c mm/process_vm_access.c: include compat.h 2021-01-19 18:27:21 +01:00
ptdump.c mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd() 2025-08-28 16:22:55 +02:00
readahead.c vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices 2023-11-20 11:06:44 +01:00
rmap.c mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse 2022-09-05 10:28:56 +02:00
rodata_test.c
shmem.c mm: update memfd seal write check to include F_SEAL_WRITE 2025-08-28 16:22:55 +02:00
shuffle.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
shuffle.h
slab_common.c mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc 2024-11-17 14:59:40 +01:00
slab.c mm/sl?b.c: remove ctor argument from kmem_cache_flags 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
slab.h mm: extract might_alloc() debug check 2025-08-28 16:22:37 +02:00
slob.c mm: extract might_alloc() debug check 2025-08-28 16:22:37 +02:00
slub.c mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails 2022-09-28 11:10:28 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage 2024-02-23 08:42:00 +01:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c
swap_state.c mm: swap: get rid of livelock in swapin readahead 2022-03-23 09:13:27 +01:00
swap.c
swapfile.c mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma 2024-10-22 15:39:24 +02:00
truncate.c mm/thp: unmap_mapping_page() to fix THP truncate_cleanup_page() 2021-06-30 08:47:27 -04:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: return 1 from hardened_usercopy __setup() handler 2022-04-08 14:40:43 +02:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: fix mmap_changing checking in mfill_atomic_hugetlb 2024-03-01 13:16:43 +01:00
util.c mm: unconditionally close VMAs on error 2024-12-14 19:47:40 +01:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: leave lazy MMU mode on PTE mapping error 2025-08-28 16:22:29 +02:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c mm: add missing release barrier on PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED unlock 2025-05-02 07:40:56 +02:00
vmstat.c arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2022-05-15 20:00:09 +02:00
workingset.c XArray updates for 5.9 2020-10-20 14:39:37 -07:00
z3fold.c mm/z3fold: use release_z3fold_page_locked() to release locked z3fold page 2021-07-14 16:56:51 +02:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc: do not pass __GFP_MOVABLE if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n 2025-08-28 16:22:53 +02:00
zswap.c