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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-04-02 16:57:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:04:55 -0700
commit0b7f569e45bb6be142d87017030669a6a7d327a1 (patch)
tree8df7877b95c093ebf4cb4e1006cea16f75fc79b7 /include
parent81d39c20f5ee2437d71709beb82597e2a38efbbc (diff)
downloadlinux-0b7f569e45bb6be142d87017030669a6a7d327a1.tar.gz
memcg: fix OOM killer under memcg
This patch tries to fix OOM Killer problems caused by hierarchy.
Now, memcg itself has OOM KILL function (in oom_kill.c) and tries to
kill a task in memcg.

But, when hierarchy is used, it's broken and correct task cannot
be killed. For example, in following cgroup

	/groupA/	hierarchy=1, limit=1G,
		01	nolimit
		02	nolimit
All tasks' memory usage under /groupA, /groupA/01, groupA/02 is limited to
groupA's 1Gbytes but OOM Killer just kills tasks in groupA.

This patch provides makes the bad process be selected from all tasks
under hierarchy. BTW, currently, oom_jiffies is updated against groupA
in above case. oom_jiffies of tree should be updated.

To see how oom_jiffies is used, please check mem_cgroup_oom_called()
callers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: const fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index b2816fba5306..43763bd772b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_get_next(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, int id,
 
 /* Returns true if root is ancestor of cg */
 bool css_is_ancestor(struct cgroup_subsys_state *cg,
-		     struct cgroup_subsys_state *root);
+		     const struct cgroup_subsys_state *root);
 
 /* Get id and depth of css */
 unsigned short css_id(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css);