Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another process in the same cgroup

From	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another process in the same cgroup
Date	2016-07-12 09:20 +0200
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On Mon 11-07-16 11:33:19, Shayan Pooya wrote:
> >> Could you post the stack trace of the hung oom victim? Also could you
> >> post the full kernel log?
> 
> With strace, when running 500 concurrent mem-hog tasks on the same
> kernel, 33 of them failed with:
> 
> strace: ../sysdeps/nptl/fork.c:136: __libc_fork: Assertion
> `THREAD_GETMEM (self, tid) != ppid' failed.
> 
> Which is: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15392
> And discussed before at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/6/470 but that
> patch was not accepted.

OK, so the problem is that the oom killed task doesn't report the futex
release properly? If yes then I fail to see how that is memcg specific.
Could you try to clarify what you consider a bug again, please? I am not
really sure I understand this report.

Thanks!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-07-11 08:50 +0200
  Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org> - 2016-07-11 20:40 +0200
    Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-07-12 09:20 +0200
      Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org> - 2016-07-12 17:40 +0200
        Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> - 2016-07-12 18:00 +0200
          Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-07-12 19:00 +0200
          Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org> - 2016-07-13 01:10 +0200
            Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-07-14 15:30 +0200
              Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org> - 2016-07-14 17:40 +0200
                Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org> - 2016-07-15 19:00 +0200
                Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-07-18 16:00 +0200
        Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-07-13 10:10 +0200
  Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another  process in the same cgroup Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-07-12 09:20 +0200

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