On 2016.07.31 at 17:10 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > [CC Mel and linux-mm] > > On Sun 31-07-16 07:11:21, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > Tonight the OOM killer got invoked during backup of /: > > > > [Jul31 01:56] kthreadd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x27000c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_NOTRACK), order=2, oom_score_adj=0 > > This a kernel stack allocation. > > > [ +0.000004] CPU: 3 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 4.7.0-06816-g797cee982eef-dirty #37 > > [ +0.000000] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/M4A78T-E, BIOS 3503 04/13/2011 > > [ +0.000002] 0000000000000000 ffffffff813c2d58 ffff8802168e7d48 00000000002ec4ea > > [ +0.000002] ffffffff8118eb9d 00000000000001b8 0000000000000440 00000000000003b0 > > [ +0.000002] ffff8802133fe400 00000000002ec4ea ffffffff81b8ac9c 0000000000000006 > > [ +0.000001] Call Trace: > > [ +0.000004] [<ffffffff813c2d58>] ? dump_stack+0x46/0x6e > > [ +0.000003] [<ffffffff8118eb9d>] ? dump_header.isra.11+0x4c/0x1a7 > > [ +0.000002] [<ffffffff811382eb>] ? oom_kill_process+0x2ab/0x460 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff811387e3>] ? out_of_memory+0x2e3/0x380 > > [ +0.000002] [<ffffffff81141532>] ? __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.124+0x1d32/0x1e40 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff81141b4c>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x10c/0x120 > > [ +0.000002] [<ffffffff810939aa>] ? copy_process.part.72+0xea/0x17a0 > > [ +0.000002] [<ffffffff810d1a55>] ? pick_next_task_fair+0x915/0x1520 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff810b7a00>] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x20/0x20 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff8109549a>] ? kernel_thread+0x7a/0x1c0 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff810b82f2>] ? kthreadd+0xd2/0x120 > > [ +0.000002] [<ffffffff818d828f>] ? ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 > > [ +0.000001] [<ffffffff810b8220>] ? kthread_stop+0x100/0x100 > > [ +0.000001] Mem-Info: > > [ +0.000003] active_anon:5882 inactive_anon:60307 isolated_anon:0 > > active_file:1523729 inactive_file:223965 isolated_file:0 > > unevictable:1970 dirty:130014 writeback:40735 unstable:0 > > slab_reclaimable:179690 slab_unreclaimable:8041 > > mapped:6771 shmem:3 pagetables:592 bounce:0 > > free:11374 free_pcp:54 free_cma:0 > > [ +0.000004] Node 0 active_anon:23528kB inactive_anon:241228kB active_file:6094916kB inactive_file:895860kB unevictable:7880kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:27084kB dirty:520056kB writeback:162940kB shmem:12kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB pages_scanned:32 all_unreclaimable? no > > [ +0.000002] DMA free:15908kB min:20kB low:32kB high:44kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15992kB managed:15908kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB > > [ +0.000001] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3486 7953 7953 > > [ +0.000004] DMA32 free:23456kB min:4996kB low:8564kB high:12132kB active_anon:2480kB inactive_anon:10564kB active_file:2559792kB inactive_file:478680kB unevictable:0kB writepending:365292kB present:3652160kB managed:3574264kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:437456kB slab_unreclaimable:12304kB kernel_stack:144kB pagetables:28kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:212kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB > > [ +0.000001] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4466 4466 > > [ +0.000003] Normal free:6132kB min:6400kB low:10972kB high:15544kB active_anon:21048kB inactive_anon:230664kB active_file:3535124kB inactive_file:417312kB unevictable:7880kB writepending:318020kB present:4718592kB managed:4574096kB mlocked:7880kB slab_reclaimable:281304kB slab_unreclaimable:19860kB kernel_stack:2944kB pagetables:2340kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB > > [ +0.000000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 > > [ +0.000002] DMA: 1*4kB (U) 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB (U) 2*64kB (U) 1*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 1*1024kB (U) 1*2048kB (U) 3*4096kB (M) = 15908kB > > [ +0.000005] DMA32: 4215*4kB (UMEH) 319*8kB (UMH) 5*16kB (H) 2*32kB (H) 2*64kB (H) 1*128kB (H) 0*256kB 1*512kB (H) 1*1024kB (H) 1*2048kB (H) 0*4096kB = 23396kB > > [ +0.000006] Normal: 650*4kB (UMH) 4*8kB (UH) 27*16kB (H) 23*32kB (H) 17*64kB (H) 11*128kB (H) 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6296kB > > The memory is quite fragmented but there are order-2+ free blocks. They > seem to be in the high atomic reserves but we should release them. > Is this reproducible? If yes, could you try with the 4.7 kernel please? It never happened before and it only happend once yet. I will continue to run the latest git kernel and let you know if it happens again. (I did copy several git trees to my root partition yesterday, so the incremental btrfs stream was larger than usual.) -- Markus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>