From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz, rientjes@google.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>,
Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix oom work when memory is under pressure
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:05:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160914090500.GC1612@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57D90F68.4000100@huawei.com>
On Wed 14-09-16 16:50:48, zhong jiang wrote:
> On 2016/9/14 16:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [Let's CC Hugh]
> >
> > On Wed 14-09-16 15:13:50, zhong jiang wrote:
> > [...]
> >> hi, Michal
> >>
> >> Recently, I hit the same issue when run a OOM case of the LTP and ksm enable.
> >>
> >> [ 601.937145] Call trace:
> >> [ 601.939600] [<ffffffc000086a88>] __switch_to+0x74/0x8c
> >> [ 601.944760] [<ffffffc000a1bae0>] __schedule+0x23c/0x7bc
> >> [ 601.950007] [<ffffffc000a1c09c>] schedule+0x3c/0x94
> >> [ 601.954907] [<ffffffc000a1eb84>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x214/0x350
> >> [ 601.961289] [<ffffffc000a1e32c>] down_write+0x64/0x80
> >> [ 601.966363] [<ffffffc00021f794>] __ksm_exit+0x90/0x19c
> >> [ 601.971523] [<ffffffc0000be650>] mmput+0x118/0x11c
> >> [ 601.976335] [<ffffffc0000c3ec4>] do_exit+0x2dc/0xa74
> >> [ 601.981321] [<ffffffc0000c46f8>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xe4
> >> [ 601.986656] [<ffffffc0000d0f34>] get_signal+0x444/0x5e0
> >> [ 601.991904] [<ffffffc000089fcc>] do_signal+0x1d8/0x450
> >> [ 601.997065] [<ffffffc00008a35c>] do_notify_resume+0x70/0x78
> > So this is a hung task triggering because the exiting task cannot get
> > the mmap sem for write because the ksmd holds it for read while
> > allocating memory which just takes ages to complete, right?
> Yes
> >> The root case is that ksmd hold the read lock. and the lock is not released.
> >> scan_get_next_rmap_item
> >> down_read
> >> get_next_rmap_item
> >> alloc_rmap_item #ksmd will loop permanently.
> >>
> >> How do you see this kind of situation ? or let the issue alone.
> > I am not familiar with the ksmd code so it is hard for me to judge but
> > one thing to do would be __GFP_NORETRY which would force a bail out from
> > the allocation rather than looping for ever. A quick look tells me that
> > the allocation failure here is quite easy to handle. There might be
> > others...
> >
> by adding my patch , The question is fixed. They are same issue.
No, it's not, as I've alreade mentioned before.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-14 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 14:47 zhongjiang
2016-09-09 11:44 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-12 9:51 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-12 11:13 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-12 13:42 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-12 17:44 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-13 13:13 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-13 13:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-13 14:01 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-14 7:13 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-14 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-14 8:50 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-14 9:05 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-09-14 8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-14 9:25 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-14 11:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-09-14 13:52 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-18 6:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-09-18 6:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-09-19 4:44 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-19 7:15 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-16 22:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-09-17 15:56 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-18 4:04 ` zhong jiang
2016-09-18 14:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-19 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
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