Document the cgroup-aware OOM killer.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index dc44785dc0fa..61a2e959e07a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ v1 is available under Documentation/cgroup-v1/.
5-2-1. Memory Interface Files
5-2-2. Usage Guidelines
5-2-3. Memory Ownership
+ 5-2-4. OOM Killer
5-3. IO
5-3-1. IO Interface Files
5-3-2. Writeback
@@ -1034,6 +1035,18 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's
utility is limited to providing the final safety net.
+ memory.oom_group
+
+ A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
+ cgroups. The default is "0".
+
+ If set, OOM killer will kill all processes attached to the cgroup
+ if selected as an OOM victim.
+
+ OOM killer respects the /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value -1000,
+ and will never kill the unkillable task, even if memory.oom_group
+ is set.
+
memory.events
A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
The following entries are defined. Unless specified
@@ -1237,6 +1250,32 @@ to be accessed repeatedly by other cgroups, it may make
sense to use
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to relinquish the ownership of memory areas
belonging to the affected files to ensure correct memory ownership.
+OOM Killer
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Cgroup v2 memory controller implements a cgroup-aware OOM killer.
+It means that it treats cgroups as first class OOM entities.
+
+Under OOM conditions the memory controller tries to make the best
+choice of a victim, hierarchically looking for a cgroup with the
+largest memory footprint.
+
+By default, OOM killer will kill the biggest task in the selected
+memory cgroup. A user can change this behavior by enabling
+the per-cgroup oom_group option. If set, it causes the OOM killer
+to kill all processes attached to the cgroup, except processes
+with oom_score_adj set to -1000.
+
+This affects both system- and cgroup-wide OOMs. For a cgroup-wide OOM
+the memory controller considers only cgroups belonging to the sub-tree
+of the OOM'ing cgroup.
+
+The root cgroup is treated as a leaf memory cgroup, so it's compared
+with top-level memory cgroups.
+
+If there are no cgroups with the enabled memory controller,
+the OOM killer is using the "traditional" process-based approach.
+
IO
--
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2.13.5
