From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
dh@kernel.usrbin.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 190191] New: kswapd0 spirals out of control
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:18:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170106101834.GA5561@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170105114233.b5c80f88f625815eaec70bc1@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu 05-01-17 11:42:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
> bugzilla web interface).
>
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:38:23 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190191
> >
> > Bug ID: 190191
> > Summary: kswapd0 spirals out of control
> > Product: Memory Management
> > Version: 2.5
> > Kernel Version: 4.8.0+
> > Hardware: i386
> > OS: Linux
> > Tree: Mainline
> > Status: NEW
> > Severity: high
> > Priority: P1
> > Component: Other
> > Assignee: akpm@linux-foundation.org
> > Reporter: dh@kernel.usrbin.org
> > Regression: No
>
> I'd say "Regression: yes".
>
> Additional details at the link. There's no indication which commit(s)
> broke it.
>
> > Created attachment 247481
> > --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=247481&action=edit
> > config for 4.7
> >
> > I'm currently running 4.7.10 with no problems, but when i tried to upgrade to
> > 4.8.0 (and just now, 4.9.0) i encountered a problem that makes my system
> > unusable.
Considering this is 32b kernel and we know that node reclaim (introduced
in 4.8) is broken with memcg enabled because Normal zone inactive list
might not be aged properly I would suggest trying to run with
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104100825.3729-1-mhocko@kernel.org
applied. It is hard to tell anything more without further information
though.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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