William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> I didn't notice anything specific here about sys_remap_file_pages() vs.
>> truncate() (sans objrmap); did a fix fly by that I didn't notice,
>> or was it less of an issue than I thought it was?
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's just a bug. We can either go through and unmap all the pages via
> their rmap chains, or mark the vma as nonlinear and just anonymise the pages
> and to heck with the SIGBUS. I'm not particularly fussed either way
> really...
Okay, I'll just fill in if no one else appears to do the busywork.
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> Also, the OOM killer fails to check lowmem; basically it just needs
>> - if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
>> + if (nr_swap_pages > 0 && nr_free_buffer_pages() > 0)
>> With that in addition to the OOM killer locking patch I posted and
>> another to completely eliminate mm-less processes from consideration
>> 64GB ia32 (with, of course, my oversized out-of-tree patch) recovers
>> from OOM instead of deadlocking after a mass-killing with swap online.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Wanna send patch?
Absolutely; I'll arrange a more organized presentation around Thursday
(yes, I'm among the last-minute OLS people -- it couldn't be helped).
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> I'd be interested in more detailed descriptions of the user-level no
>> overcommit, dcacheicache, and truncated ext3 page issues after Thursday.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The arithmetic in vm_enough_memory() is woefully inaccurate. If you have no
> swap and then build up a lot of icache/dcache, vm_enough_memory()
> underestimates the amount of reclaimable memory by a lot and big mallocs
> fail. If the i/dcache has internal fragmentation it gets even worse.
> I had a brief poke at that a while ago and decided it was basically hopeless.
> I suspect that assuming "all slab pages are reclaimable" would be the best
> fix here.
It sounds like some thought may be necessary if the above approach is
to be improved upon.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The ext3 truncate pages are those pages which are on the LRU and have
> buffers, but that's _all_ they have. They are instantly reclaimable and are
> basically free memory. Only nobody knows that yet, so vm_enough_memory()
> gets it wrong. The fix would be to nail these pages more aggressively in
> journal_unmap_buffer(), or to account for them and include that accounting in
> vm_emough_memory(). I'd prefer to just free the dang pages in
> journal_unmap_buffer().
Noted.
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> The latter sounds easy to address. It actually sounds like a 2.4.x
>> compatibility fix.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> davem thinks we shouldn't need it, and I've seen no bug reports that indicate
> that we _do_ need it, but Andi says we do.
> Certainly something needs to be done in that area - a ppc64 box with 16G of
> memory (all ZONE_DMA) cruises along with just 1M of memory free.
Okay, I'll classify that as a back-burner issue.
Thanks.
-- wli
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