/* * linux/mm/oom_kill.c * * Copyright (C) 1998,2000 Rik van Riel * Thanks go out to Claus Fischer for some serious inspiration and * for goading me into coding this file... * * The routines in this file are used to kill a process when * we're seriously out of memory. This gets called from kswapd() * in linux/mm/vmscan.c when we really run out of memory. * * Since we won't call these routines often (on a well-configured * machine) this file will double as a 'coding guide' and a signpost * for newbie kernel hackers. It features several pointers to major * kernel subsystems and hints as to where to find out what things do. */ #include #include #include #include #include int oom_kill_enabled = 1; /* #define DEBUG */ /** * oom_badness - calculate a numeric value for how bad this task has been * @p: task struct of which task we should calculate * @p: current uptime in seconds * * The formula used is relatively simple and documented inline in the * function. The main rationale is that we want to select a good task * to kill when we run out of memory. * * Good in this context means that: * 1) we lose the minimum amount of work done * 2) we recover a large amount of memory * 3) we don't kill anything innocent of eating tons of memory * 4) we want to kill the minimum amount of processes (one) * 5) we try to kill the process the user expects us to kill, this * algorithm has been meticulously tuned to meet the principle * of least surprise ... (be careful when you change it) */ static unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime) { unsigned long points, cpu_time, run_time, s; if (!p->mm) return 0; if (p->flags & PF_MEMDIE) return 0; /* * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness. */ points = p->mm->total_vm; /* * CPU time is in tens of seconds and run time is in thousands * of seconds. There is no particular reason for this other than * that it turned out to work very well in practice. */ cpu_time = (p->utime + p->stime) >> (SHIFT_HZ + 3); if (uptime >= p->start_time.tv_sec) run_time = (uptime - p->start_time.tv_sec) >> 10; else run_time = 0; s = int_sqrt(cpu_time); if (s) points /= s; s = int_sqrt(int_sqrt(run_time)); if (s) points /= s; /* * Niced processes are most likely less important, so double * their badness points. */ if (task_nice(p) > 0) points *= 2; /* * Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it * less likely that we kill those. */ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0) points /= 4; /* * We don't want to kill a process with direct hardware access. * Not only could that mess up the hardware, but usually users * tend to only have this flag set on applications they think * of as important. */ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) points /= 4; #ifdef DEBUG printk(KERN_DEBUG "OOMkill: task %d (%s) got %d points\n", p->pid, p->comm, points); #endif return points; } /* * Simple selection loop. We chose the process with the highest * number of 'points'. We expect the caller will lock the tasklist. * * (not docbooked, we don't want this one cluttering up the manual) */ static struct task_struct * select_bad_process(void) { unsigned long maxpoints = 0; struct task_struct *g, *p; struct task_struct *chosen = NULL; struct timespec uptime; do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); do_each_thread(g, p) if (p->pid) { unsigned long points = badness(p, uptime.tv_sec); if (points > maxpoints) { chosen = p; maxpoints = points; } if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF) return p; } while_each_thread(g, p); return chosen; } /** * We must be careful though to never send SIGKILL a process with * CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set, send SIGTERM instead (but it's unlikely that * we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set). */ static void __oom_kill_task(task_t *p) { task_lock(p); if (!p->mm || p->mm == &init_mm) { WARN_ON(1); printk(KERN_WARNING "tried to kill an mm-less task!\n"); task_unlock(p); return; } task_unlock(p); printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, p->comm); /* * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to * exit() and clear out its resources quickly... */ p->time_slice = HZ; p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE; /* This process has hardware access, be more careful. */ if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) { force_sig(SIGTERM, p); } else { force_sig(SIGKILL, p); } } static struct mm_struct *oom_kill_task(task_t *p) { struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p); if (!mm || mm == &init_mm) return NULL; __oom_kill_task(p); return mm; } /** * oom_kill - kill the "best" process when we run out of memory * * If we run out of memory, we have the choice between either * killing a random task (bad), letting the system crash (worse) * OR try to be smart about which process to kill. Note that we * don't have to be perfect here, we just have to be good. */ static void oom_kill(void) { struct mm_struct *mm; struct task_struct *g, *p, *q; /* print the memory stats whenever we OOM kill */ show_mem(); if (!oom_kill_enabled) { printk(KERN_INFO "Would have oom-killed but /proc/sys/vm/oom-kill is disabled\n"); return; } read_lock(&tasklist_lock); retry: p = select_bad_process(); /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */ if (!p) { show_free_areas(); panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n"); } mm = oom_kill_task(p); if (!mm) goto retry; /* * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads), * but are in a different thread group */ do_each_thread(g, q) if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid) __oom_kill_task(q); while_each_thread(g, q); if (!p->mm) printk(KERN_INFO "Fixed up OOM kill of mm-less task\n"); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); mmput(mm); /* * Make kswapd go out of the way, so "p" has a good chance of * killing itself before someone else gets the chance to ask * for more memory. */ yield(); return; } /** * out_of_memory - is the system out of memory? */ void out_of_memory(int gfp_mask) { /* * oom_lock protects out_of_memory()'s static variables. * It's a global lock; this is not performance-critical. */ static spinlock_t oom_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; static unsigned long first, last, count, lastkill; unsigned long now, since; spin_lock(&oom_lock); now = jiffies; since = now - last; last = now; /* * If it's been a long time since last failure, * we're not oom. */ if (since > 5*HZ) goto reset; /* * If we haven't tried for at least one second, * we're not really oom. */ since = now - first; if (since < HZ) goto out_unlock; /* * If we have gotten only a few failures, * we're not really oom. */ if (++count < 10) goto out_unlock; /* * If we just killed a process, wait a while * to give that task a chance to exit. This * avoids killing multiple processes needlessly. */ since = now - lastkill; if (since < HZ*5) goto out_unlock; /* * Ok, really out of memory. Kill something. */ lastkill = now; printk("oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x\n", gfp_mask); /* oom_kill() sleeps */ spin_unlock(&oom_lock); oom_kill(); spin_lock(&oom_lock); reset: /* * We dropped the lock above, so check to be sure the variable * first only ever increases to prevent false OOM's. */ if (time_after(now, first)) first = now; count = 0; out_unlock: spin_unlock(&oom_lock); }