Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux)

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Sat May 21 2011 - 10:14:38 EST


> I did some tracing and the oops happens from the second call to
> shrink_page_list after should_reclaim_stall returns true and it hits
> the same pages in the same order that the earlier call just finished
> calling SetPageActive on.

Can you please share your tracing patch and raw tracing result log?

Thanks.

> I have *not* confirmed that the two calls
> happened from the same call to shrink_inactive_list, but something's
> certainly wrong in there.
>
> This is very easy to reproduce on my laptop.
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