Re: OOM: Better, but still there on

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 22-12-16 11:10:29, Nils Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 08:36:59AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > TL;DR
> > there is another version of the debugging patch. Just revert the
> > previous one and apply this one instead. It's still not clear what
> > is going on but I suspect either some misaccounting or unexpeted
> > pages on the LRU lists. I have added one more tracepoint, so please
> > enable also mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low.
> 
> Right, I did just that and can provide a new log. I was also able, in
> this case, to reproduce the OOM issues again and not just the "page
> allocation stalls" that were the only thing visible in the previous
> log.

Thanks a lot for testing! I will have a look later today.

> However, the log comes from machine #2 again today, as I'm
> unfortunately forced to try this via VPN from work to home today, so I
> have exactly one attempt per machine before it goes down and locks up
> (and I can only restart it later tonight).

This is really surprising to me. Are you sure that you have sysrq
configured properly. At least sysrq+b shouldn't depend on any memory
allocations and should allow you to reboot immediately. A sysrq+m right
before the reboot might turn out being helpful as well.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs