From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DF26B0044 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:38:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:38:33 +0100 Subject: Re: OOM killer, page fault Message-ID: <20091106133833.GA23151@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20091102135640.93de7c2a.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop> <28c262360911012300h4535118ewd65238c746b91a52@mail.gmail.com> <20091102155543.E60E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091102140216.02567ff8.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091102141917.GJ2116@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <28c262360911020640k3f9dfcdct2cac6cc1d193144d@mail.gmail.com> <20091105132109.GA12676@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <28c262360911051418r1aefbff6oa54a63d887c0ea48@mail.gmail.com> <20091106000113.GE22289@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091106000113.GE22289@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> From: Norbert Preining Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Minchan Kim Cc: Jody Belka , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm List-ID: Hi Kim, On Fr, 06 Nov 2009, preining wrote: > Recompiling already and trying to recreate the oom-killer boom. Well, after rebooting into that kernel I get *loads*, every few seconds, of warnings in the log. Hard to sort out what is real. Is that expected? Excerpt from the log: [ 2077.753841] vma->vm_ops->fault : 0xffffffff811df4bd [ 2077.753842] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2077.753845] WARNING: at mm/memory.c:2722 __do_fault+0x89/0x382() [ 2077.753847] Hardware name: VGN-Z11VN_B ... [ 2077.753880] Pid: 4892, comm: Xorg Tainted: G W 2.6.32-rc6 #5 [ 2077.753881] Call Trace: [ 2077.753884] [] ? __do_fault+0x89/0x382 [ 2077.753887] [] ? __do_fault+0x89/0x382 [ 2077.753889] [] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3 [ 2077.753892] [] ? __do_fault+0x89/0x382 [ 2077.753895] [] ? _spin_unlock+0x23/0x2f [ 2077.753898] [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2b9/0x608 [ 2077.753900] [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x443/0x47b [ 2077.753903] [] ? do_page_fault+0x25f/0x27b [ 2077.753906] [] ? page_fault+0x1f/0x30 [ 2077.753908] ---[ end trace d3324ef5061f0136 ]--- hundreds/thousands of them. And even without starting anything else. Is that what you want? My syslog file has grown to some hundred megabytes ... Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology preining@jaist.ac.jp Vienna University of Technology preining@logic.at Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) preining@debian.org gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARGOWARD (n.) Motorists' name for the kind of pedestrian who stands beside a main road and waves on the traffic, as if it's their right of way. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org