Hello all, We are getting this warning in 4.14.13. Is this benign, or something we need to deal with? ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64330 12841 49735 40 1754 50142 Swap: 19299 0 19299 [53421.567038] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [53421.572355] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 23145 at mm/vmstat.c:986 __fragmentation_index+0x55/0x60 [53421.577669] Modules linked in: btrfs xor zstd_decompress zstd_compress xxhash raid6_pq dm_crypt binfmt_misc dm_snapshot lz4 lz4_compress zram drbd lru_cache ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat xt_connbytes xt_DSCP iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_limit nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_comment xt_owner mpt3sas raid_class scsi_transport_sas mptctl mptbase xt_recent xt_conntrack nf_conntrack xt_set iptable_filter ip_set_hash_net ip_set nfnetlink netconsole dm_thin_pool dm_persistent_data dm_bio_prison dm_bufio libcrc32c 8021q garp mrp bridge stp llc sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm irqbypass bcache crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ghash_clmulni_intel [53421.615543] mxm_wmi dcdbas pcspkr sg ipmi_si lpc_ich ipmi_devintf mfd_core ipmi_msghandler wmi mei_me mei shpchp acpi_power_meter nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables ext4 mbcache jbd2 mgag200 drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm igb crc32c_intel ptp drm pps_core dca megaraid_sas i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod dax bonding [53421.638163] CPU: 2 PID: 23145 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W 4.14.13 #66 [53421.643753] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730xd/0599V5, BIOS 2.7.0 12/005/2017 [53421.649442] task: ffff977749760000 task.stack: ffffa42a0d30c000 [53421.655112] RIP: 0010:__fragmentation_index+0x55/0x60 [53421.660574] RSP: 0018:ffffa42a0d30f940 EFLAGS: 00010202 [53421.666042] RAX: 000000000000000b RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 000000000000000a [53421.671576] RDX: ffffa42a0d30f948 RSI: ffffa42a0d30f948 RDI: 000000000000000b [53421.677092] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00000000000001d0 R09: 00000000000001f3 [53421.682579] R10: 0000000000074a88 R11: 0000000000074000 R12: ffff9777bffdd680 [53421.688175] R13: 000000000000000b R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffa42a0d30fa30 [53421.693674] FS: 00007f8d96e2b700(0000) GS:ffff9777bfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [53421.699285] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [53421.704797] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000fa550c001 CR4: 00000000001626e0 [53421.710283] Call Trace: [53421.715728] fragmentation_index+0x2e/0x50 [53421.721184] compaction_suitable+0xa3/0xd0 [53421.726554] shrink_node+0x268/0x320 [53421.731919] node_reclaim+0x19d/0x250 [53421.737327] get_page_from_freelist+0x16a/0xac0 [53421.742718] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140 [53421.748192] ? __schedule+0x1e4/0x770 [53421.753673] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x107/0x290 [53421.759152] kmalloc_large_node+0x31/0x50 [53421.764659] __kmalloc_node+0x20a/0x260 [53421.770151] kvmalloc_node+0x46/0x80 [53421.775540] kvm_arch_create_memslot+0x58/0x1a0 [kvm] [53421.776865] __kvm_set_memory_region+0x725/0x860 [kvm] [53421.777848] kvm_set_memory_region+0x26/0x40 [kvm] [53421.778508] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x438/0x830 [kvm] [53421.779159] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_put+0xb4/0xd0 [kvm] [53421.779857] ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x13c/0x5b0 [kvm] [53421.780497] ? do_sigtimedwait+0xcb/0x230 [53421.781126] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa6/0x5f0 [53421.781734] SyS_ioctl+0x74/0x80 [53421.782325] do_syscall_64+0x61/0x1a0 [53421.782900] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 [53421.783463] RIP: 0033:0x7f8da0a39107 [53421.784012] RSP: 002b:00007f8d96e2a698 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [53421.784576] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055827b03e0a0 RCX: 00007f8da0a39107 [53421.785104] RDX: 00007f8d96e2a700 RSI: 000000004020ae46 RDI: 000000000000000a [53421.785631] RBP: 000055827b038000 R08: 000055827b041fa0 R09: 00000000000ec000 [53421.786141] R10: 00000000dff14000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f8d96e2a700 [53421.786651] R13: 00000000e0000000 R14: 000055827b03e0a0 R15: 00000000000001fd [53421.787143] Code: d2 45 89 c0 48 69 c0 e8 03 00 00 48 f7 f6 31 d2 48 05 e8 03 00 00 49 f7 f0 48 89 c1 b8 e8 03 00 00 29 c8 c3 b8 18 fc ff ff f3 c3 <0f> ff 31 c0 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 57 b9 06 00 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ -- Eric Wheeler