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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	adrian.hunter@intel.com, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Subject: Re: 4.14-rc2 on thinkpad x220: out of memory when inserting mmc card
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 16:44:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002144418.35mag5uormoqoay5@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171001102647.GA23908@amd>

On Sun 01-10-17 12:26:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I inserted u-SD card, only to realize that it is not detected as it
> > should be. And dmesg indeed reveals:
> 
> Tetsuo asked me to report this to linux-mm.
> 
> But 2^4 is 16 pages, IIRC that can't be expected to work reliably, and
> thus this sounds like MMC bug, not mm bug.

Well, I cannot comment on why MMC needs such a large allocation and
whether it can safely fall back to vmalloc but __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
might help to try harder and require compaction to do more work.
Relying on that for correctness is, of course, a different story and
a very unreliable under memory pressure or long term fragmented memory.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170905194739.GA31241@amd>
     [not found] ` <20171001093704.GA12626@amd>
2017-10-01 10:26   ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-01 10:57     ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-02  7:52       ` Adrian Hunter
2017-10-02  8:41         ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-02 12:06           ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-02 13:03             ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-03  6:27               ` Adrian Hunter
2017-10-23  9:31                 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-23 12:13                   ` Adrian Hunter
2017-10-23 12:16                   ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-23 21:27                     ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-24  6:59                       ` Adrian Hunter
2017-10-26 13:44                       ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-02 14:09       ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-03  6:30         ` Adrian Hunter
2017-10-04  7:53           ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-04  8:01             ` Ulf Hansson
2017-10-02 14:44     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-10-02 14:55       ` Tetsuo Handa

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