From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f72.google.com (mail-wm0-f72.google.com [74.125.82.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF336B02EE for ; Tue, 2 May 2017 03:44:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f72.google.com with SMTP id p133so806077wmd.17 for ; Tue, 02 May 2017 00:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k6si14427264wre.202.2017.05.02.00.44.36 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 May 2017 00:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 09:44:33 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free Message-ID: <20170502074432.GB14593@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20161123063410.GB2864@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161128072315.GC14788@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161129155537.f6qgnfmnoljwnx6j@merlins.org> <20161129160751.GC9796@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161129163406.treuewaqgt4fy4kh@merlins.org> <20161129174019.fywddwo5h4pyix7r@merlins.org> <20161129230135.GM7179@merlins.org> <20170502041235.zqmywvj5tiiom3jk@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170502041235.zqmywvj5tiiom3jk@merlins.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marc MERLIN Cc: Linus Torvalds , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm , LKML , Joonsoo Kim , Tejun Heo , Greg Kroah-Hartman On Mon 01-05-17 21:12:35, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Howdy, > > Well, sadly, the problem is more or less back is 4.11.0. The system doesn't really > crash but it goes into an infinite loop with > [34776.826800] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 33s! > More logs: https://pastebin.com/YqE4riw0 I am seeing a lot of traces where tasks is waiting for an IO. I do not see any OOM report there. Why do you believe this is an OOM killer issue? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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