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1 /*
2 * linux/mm/oom_kill.c
3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 1998,2000 Rik van Riel
5 * Thanks go out to Claus Fischer for some serious inspiration and
6 * for goading me into coding this file...
8 * The routines in this file are used to kill a process when
9 * we're seriously out of memory. This gets called from __alloc_pages()
10 * in mm/page_alloc.c when we really run out of memory.
12 * Since we won't call these routines often (on a well-configured
13 * machine) this file will double as a 'coding guide' and a signpost
14 * for newbie kernel hackers. It features several pointers to major
15 * kernel subsystems and hints as to where to find out what things do.
18 #include <linux/oom.h>
19 #include <linux/mm.h>
20 #include <linux/err.h>
21 #include <linux/sched.h>
22 #include <linux/swap.h>
23 #include <linux/timex.h>
24 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
25 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
26 #include <linux/module.h>
27 #include <linux/notifier.h>
29 int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
30 int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
31 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_mutex);
32 /* #define DEBUG */
34 /**
35 * badness - calculate a numeric value for how bad this task has been
36 * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate
37 * @uptime: current uptime in seconds
39 * The formula used is relatively simple and documented inline in the
40 * function. The main rationale is that we want to select a good task
41 * to kill when we run out of memory.
43 * Good in this context means that:
44 * 1) we lose the minimum amount of work done
45 * 2) we recover a large amount of memory
46 * 3) we don't kill anything innocent of eating tons of memory
47 * 4) we want to kill the minimum amount of processes (one)
48 * 5) we try to kill the process the user expects us to kill, this
49 * algorithm has been meticulously tuned to meet the principle
50 * of least surprise ... (be careful when you change it)
53 unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
55 unsigned long points, cpu_time, run_time, s;
56 struct mm_struct *mm;
57 struct task_struct *child;
59 task_lock(p);
60 mm = p->mm;
61 if (!mm) {
62 task_unlock(p);
63 return 0;
67 * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
69 points = mm->total_vm;
72 * After this unlock we can no longer dereference local variable `mm'
74 task_unlock(p);
77 * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first.
79 if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF)
80 return ULONG_MAX;
83 * Processes which fork a lot of child processes are likely
84 * a good choice. We add half the vmsize of the children if they
85 * have an own mm. This prevents forking servers to flood the
86 * machine with an endless amount of children. In case a single
87 * child is eating the vast majority of memory, adding only half
88 * to the parents will make the child our kill candidate of choice.
90 list_for_each_entry(child, &p->children, sibling) {
91 task_lock(child);
92 if (child->mm != mm && child->mm)
93 points += child->mm->total_vm/2 + 1;
94 task_unlock(child);
98 * CPU time is in tens of seconds and run time is in thousands
99 * of seconds. There is no particular reason for this other than
100 * that it turned out to work very well in practice.
102 cpu_time = (cputime_to_jiffies(p->utime) + cputime_to_jiffies(p->stime))
103 >> (SHIFT_HZ + 3);
105 if (uptime >= p->start_time.tv_sec)
106 run_time = (uptime - p->start_time.tv_sec) >> 10;
107 else
108 run_time = 0;
110 s = int_sqrt(cpu_time);
111 if (s)
112 points /= s;
113 s = int_sqrt(int_sqrt(run_time));
114 if (s)
115 points /= s;
118 * Niced processes are most likely less important, so double
119 * their badness points.
121 if (task_nice(p) > 0)
122 points *= 2;
125 * Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it
126 * less likely that we kill those.
128 if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
129 p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0)
130 points /= 4;
133 * We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access.
134 * Not only could that mess up the hardware, but usually users
135 * tend to only have this flag set on applications they think
136 * of as important.
138 if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
139 points /= 4;
142 * If p's nodes don't overlap ours, it may still help to kill p
143 * because p may have allocated or otherwise mapped memory on
144 * this node before. However it will be less likely.
146 if (!cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects(current, p))
147 points /= 8;
150 * Adjust the score by oomkilladj.
152 if (p->oomkilladj) {
153 if (p->oomkilladj > 0) {
154 if (!points)
155 points = 1;
156 points <<= p->oomkilladj;
157 } else
158 points >>= -(p->oomkilladj);
161 #ifdef DEBUG
162 printk(KERN_DEBUG "OOMkill: task %d (%s) got %lu points\n",
163 p->pid, p->comm, points);
164 #endif
165 return points;
169 * Determine the type of allocation constraint.
171 static inline enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct zonelist *zonelist,
172 gfp_t gfp_mask)
174 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
175 struct zone **z;
176 nodemask_t nodes = node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY];
178 for (z = zonelist->zones; *z; z++)
179 if (cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(*z, gfp_mask))
180 node_clear(zone_to_nid(*z), nodes);
181 else
182 return CONSTRAINT_CPUSET;
184 if (!nodes_empty(nodes))
185 return CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY;
186 #endif
188 return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
192 * Simple selection loop. We chose the process with the highest
193 * number of 'points'. We expect the caller will lock the tasklist.
195 * (not docbooked, we don't want this one cluttering up the manual)
197 static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints)
199 struct task_struct *g, *p;
200 struct task_struct *chosen = NULL;
201 struct timespec uptime;
202 *ppoints = 0;
204 do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime);
205 do_each_thread(g, p) {
206 unsigned long points;
209 * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released
210 * their mm.
212 if (!p->mm)
213 continue;
214 /* skip the init task */
215 if (is_init(p))
216 continue;
219 * This task already has access to memory reserves and is
220 * being killed. Don't allow any other task access to the
221 * memory reserve.
223 * Note: this may have a chance of deadlock if it gets
224 * blocked waiting for another task which itself is waiting
225 * for memory. Is there a better alternative?
227 if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE))
228 return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
231 * This is in the process of releasing memory so wait for it
232 * to finish before killing some other task by mistake.
234 * However, if p is the current task, we allow the 'kill' to
235 * go ahead if it is exiting: this will simply set TIF_MEMDIE,
236 * which will allow it to gain access to memory reserves in
237 * the process of exiting and releasing its resources.
238 * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock.
240 if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
241 if (p != current)
242 return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
244 chosen = p;
245 *ppoints = ULONG_MAX;
248 if (p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
249 continue;
251 points = badness(p, uptime.tv_sec);
252 if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) {
253 chosen = p;
254 *ppoints = points;
256 } while_each_thread(g, p);
258 return chosen;
262 * Send SIGKILL to the selected process irrespective of CAP_SYS_RAW_IO
263 * flag though it's unlikely that we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO
264 * set.
266 static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose)
268 if (is_init(p)) {
269 WARN_ON(1);
270 printk(KERN_WARNING "tried to kill init!\n");
271 return;
274 if (!p->mm) {
275 WARN_ON(1);
276 printk(KERN_WARNING "tried to kill an mm-less task!\n");
277 return;
280 if (verbose)
281 printk(KERN_ERR "Killed process %d (%s)\n", p->pid, p->comm);
284 * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
285 * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
286 * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
288 p->time_slice = HZ;
289 set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
291 force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
294 static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
296 struct mm_struct *mm;
297 struct task_struct *g, *q;
299 mm = p->mm;
301 /* WARNING: mm may not be dereferenced since we did not obtain its
302 * value from get_task_mm(p). This is OK since all we need to do is
303 * compare mm to q->mm below.
305 * Furthermore, even if mm contains a non-NULL value, p->mm may
306 * change to NULL at any time since we do not hold task_lock(p).
307 * However, this is of no concern to us.
310 if (mm == NULL)
311 return 1;
314 * Don't kill the process if any threads are set to OOM_DISABLE
316 do_each_thread(g, q) {
317 if (q->mm == mm && q->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
318 return 1;
319 } while_each_thread(g, q);
321 __oom_kill_task(p, 1);
324 * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
325 * but are in a different thread group. Don't let them have access
326 * to memory reserves though, otherwise we might deplete all memory.
328 do_each_thread(g, q) {
329 if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
330 force_sig(SIGKILL, q);
331 } while_each_thread(g, q);
333 return 0;
336 static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
337 unsigned long points, const char *message)
339 struct task_struct *c;
340 struct list_head *tsk;
342 if (printk_ratelimit()) {
343 printk(KERN_WARNING "%s invoked oom-killer: "
344 "gfp_mask=0x%x, order=%d, oomkilladj=%d\n",
345 current->comm, gfp_mask, order, current->oomkilladj);
346 dump_stack();
347 show_mem();
351 * If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
352 * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
354 if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
355 __oom_kill_task(p, 0);
356 return 0;
359 printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kill process %d (%s) score %li or a child\n",
360 message, p->pid, p->comm, points);
362 /* Try to kill a child first */
363 list_for_each(tsk, &p->children) {
364 c = list_entry(tsk, struct task_struct, sibling);
365 if (c->mm == p->mm)
366 continue;
367 if (!oom_kill_task(c))
368 return 0;
370 return oom_kill_task(p);
373 static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(oom_notify_list);
375 int register_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
377 return blocking_notifier_chain_register(&oom_notify_list, nb);
379 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_oom_notifier);
381 int unregister_oom_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
383 return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&oom_notify_list, nb);
385 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_oom_notifier);
388 * Try to acquire the OOM killer lock for the zones in zonelist. Returns zero
389 * if a parallel OOM killing is already taking place that includes a zone in
390 * the zonelist. Otherwise, locks all zones in the zonelist and returns 1.
392 int try_set_zone_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist)
394 struct zone **z;
395 int ret = 1;
397 z = zonelist->zones;
399 spin_lock(&zone_scan_mutex);
400 do {
401 if (zone_is_oom_locked(*z)) {
402 ret = 0;
403 goto out;
405 } while (*(++z) != NULL);
408 * Lock each zone in the zonelist under zone_scan_mutex so a parallel
409 * invocation of try_set_zone_oom() doesn't succeed when it shouldn't.
411 z = zonelist->zones;
412 do {
413 zone_set_flag(*z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED);
414 } while (*(++z) != NULL);
415 out:
416 spin_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex);
417 return ret;
421 * Clears the ZONE_OOM_LOCKED flag for all zones in the zonelist so that failed
422 * allocation attempts with zonelists containing them may now recall the OOM
423 * killer, if necessary.
425 void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist)
427 struct zone **z;
429 z = zonelist->zones;
431 spin_lock(&zone_scan_mutex);
432 do {
433 zone_clear_flag(*z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED);
434 } while (*(++z) != NULL);
435 spin_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex);
439 * out_of_memory - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory
441 * If we run out of memory, we have the choice between either
442 * killing a random task (bad), letting the system crash (worse)
443 * OR try to be smart about which process to kill. Note that we
444 * don't have to be perfect here, we just have to be good.
446 void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
448 struct task_struct *p;
449 unsigned long points = 0;
450 unsigned long freed = 0;
451 enum oom_constraint constraint;
453 blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
454 if (freed > 0)
455 /* Got some memory back in the last second. */
456 return;
458 if (sysctl_panic_on_oom == 2)
459 panic("out of memory. Compulsory panic_on_oom is selected.\n");
462 * Check if there were limitations on the allocation (only relevant for
463 * NUMA) that may require different handling.
465 constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask);
466 read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
468 switch (constraint) {
469 case CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY:
470 oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, points,
471 "No available memory (MPOL_BIND)");
472 break;
474 case CONSTRAINT_NONE:
475 if (sysctl_panic_on_oom)
476 panic("out of memory. panic_on_oom is selected\n");
477 /* Fall-through */
478 case CONSTRAINT_CPUSET:
479 if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task) {
480 oom_kill_process(current, gfp_mask, order, points,
481 "Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)");
482 break;
484 retry:
486 * Rambo mode: Shoot down a process and hope it solves whatever
487 * issues we may have.
489 p = select_bad_process(&points);
491 if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL)
492 goto out;
494 /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
495 if (!p) {
496 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
497 panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
500 if (oom_kill_process(p, points, gfp_mask, order,
501 "Out of memory"))
502 goto retry;
504 break;
507 out:
508 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
511 * Give "p" a good chance of killing itself before we
512 * retry to allocate memory unless "p" is current
514 if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))
515 schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);