From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Add a reason for reserved pages in has_unmovable_pages()
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 18:38:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <615D1FE9-C16A-4FD5-A113-1C50AB3F0222@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191005142232.e08976cf8905824fad0533ff@linux-foundation.org>
> On Oct 5, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Apparently some console drivers can do memory allocation on the printk()
> path.
>
> This behavior is daft, IMO. Have we identified which ones and looked
> into fixing them?
Not necessary that simple. It is more of 2+ CPUs required to trigger the deadlock. Please see my v2 patch I sent which has all the information. Especially, the thread link included there which contains a few lockdep splat traces and the s390 one in the patch description.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-05 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-03 8:10 Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-03 9:05 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-03 9:32 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-03 9:53 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-03 11:19 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-03 11:32 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-03 11:50 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-03 12:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-03 12:14 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-04 8:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 8:19 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-01-14 8:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 9:10 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-14 10:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-01-14 11:03 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-01-14 11:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-14 12:04 ` [PATCH] mm, debug: always print flags in dump_page() Vlastimil Babka
2020-01-14 13:35 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-14 18:22 ` [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Add a reason for reserved pages in has_unmovable_pages() Ralph Campbell
2019-10-04 10:58 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-04 11:44 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-04 12:56 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-04 13:07 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-04 13:30 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-04 13:38 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-04 13:56 ` Qian Cai
2019-10-04 14:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-05 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2019-10-05 22:38 ` Qian Cai [this message]
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