Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 12:58:47 EST


On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:43:55 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > David, Can you please try to following patch? it was posted to LKML
> > about 1-2 week ago.
> >
> > Subject "[BUGFIX][PATCH] fix lumpy reclaim lru handiling at
> > isolate_lru_pages v2"
>
> It is already committed, but I ran a test on the latest Linus kernel anyway:
>
> msgctl11 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
> msgctl11 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
> Pid: 20366, comm: msgctl11 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-cachefs #144
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff810718d2>] ? oom_kill_process.clone.0+0xa9/0x245
> [<ffffffff81071b99>] ? __out_of_memory+0x12b/0x142
> [<ffffffff81071c1a>] ? out_of_memory+0x6a/0x94
> [<ffffffff810742e4>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x42e/0x51d
> [<ffffffff81031416>] ? copy_process+0x95/0x114f
> [<ffffffff8107443c>] ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x4f
> [<ffffffff81031439>] ? copy_process+0xb8/0x114f
> [<ffffffff8108192e>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x5dd/0x62f
> [<ffffffff8103260f>] ? do_fork+0x13f/0x2ba
> [<ffffffff81022c22>] ? do_page_fault+0x1f8/0x20d
> [<ffffffff8100b0d3>] ? stub_clone+0x13/0x20
> [<ffffffff8100ad6b>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> Mem-Info:
> DMA per-cpu:
> CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
> CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
> DMA32 per-cpu:
> CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 159
> CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 2
> Active_anon:70477 active_file:1 inactive_anon:4514
> inactive_file:7 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
> free:1954 slab:42078 mapped:237 pagetables:57791 bounce:0

~170k pages unreclaimable and ~70k pages unaccounted for.

This does not look like a reclaim problem?

> DMA free:3932kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active_anon:236kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:4kB unevictable:0kB present:15364kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 968 968 968
> DMA32 free:3884kB min:3948kB low:4932kB high:5920kB active_anon:281672kB inactive_anon:18056kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:24kB unevictable:0kB present:992032kB pages_scanned:6 all_unreclaimable? no
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> DMA: 180*4kB 36*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3936kB
> DMA32: 491*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3884kB
> 1808 total pagecache pages
> 0 pages in swap cache
> Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
> Free swap = 0kB
> Total swap = 0kB
> 255744 pages RAM
> 5589 pages reserved
> 249340 pages shared
> 219039 pages non-shared
> Out of memory: kill process 11471 (msgctl11) score 112393 or a child
> Killed process 12318 (msgctl11)

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