Hi Pintu kumar,
I have tried couple of options what you have suggested but no breakthrough yet.
Meanwhile I was trying to use swap on ZRAM,
I enabled following configuration in kernel menuconfig
CONFIG_ZSMALLOC=y
CONFIG_ZRAM=y
and then I am running following from init script,
echo 256M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
mkswap /dev/zram0
added following entry in `/etc/fstab`
/dev/zram0 none swap sw,pri=32767 0 0
On reboot I see from free command that "swap" is enabled
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 251432 244668 6764 0 19592
-/+ buffers: 225076 26356
Swap: 262140 0 262140
I am performing memory intensive operation(big tar extraction) still
`swap` is never used I always see its value `0` :(
am I missing something ?
Any suggestions/pointers ?
I have also posted question on SO, however no reply yet.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40174383/swap-on-zram-is-not-being-used-in-linux-3-12
Thank you,
Regards,
Ankur
-----Original Message-----
From: PINTU KUMAR [mailto:pintu_agarwal@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 7:47 PM
To: Ankur Tank <Ankur.Tank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; PINTU KUMAR <pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: artfri2@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Memory fragmentation issue related suggestion request
Hi Ankur,
Please find some of my comments below.
>________________________________
> From: Ankur Tank <Ankur.Tank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: PINTU KUMAR <pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
><linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx"
><linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "artfri2@xxxxxxxxx" <artfri2@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2016 3:17 PM
>Subject: RE: Memory fragmentation issue related suggestion request
>
>
>Hello Pintu Kumar,
>
>I tried registering Linux memory management mailing list and somehow I
>am not able to get through it. :( Meanwhile I try doing it, Just wanted
>ask you some information,
>
>=======================================================
>TL;DR
>=======================================================
>Different analysis points that we have memory fragmentation
>
For memory fragmentation issue, you need to keep checking /proc/buddyinfo and meminfo.
If the amount of memory requested in greater than meminfo (free) and still the allocation is failing, then its due to fragmentation.
>I was again going through below presentation given by you at ELC-2015.
>http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/%5BELC-2015
>%5D-System-wide-Memory-Defragmenter.pdf
>
>1. We found the use case where its every single time reproducible, However if we drop_caches, can compact_memory and run use case we don't see issue.
If drop_caches & compact_memory is working for you then its obviously fragmentation issue.
But as I know, drop_caches is meant only for debugging purpose. It may degrade system performance if we use continuously.
> So looks like we have some kind of memory shrinker what you talked about we can handle this issue.
>2. Is your kernel module already released ?
>3. If It is not released, we are thinking of implementing such module and continuously measure fragmentation and once it reaches a limit, shrink the memory, so that we don't end up in such situation.
About memory_shrinker interface, I have released a patch last year, but it was rejected.
If you are still interested, you can find here:
http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=785290
But, this is just an interface. A place needs to be decided where it can be invoked.
If you have disk-swap enabled, it can degrade the performance. But it works best with ZRAM.
It is similar to drop_caches but may give better results if used appropriately.
Note that, the system already try to do shrink_memory internally several times in the form of direct_reclaim but at times, the amount of memory it reclaims during LIVE allocation may not be sufficient or it becomes too late.
> Do you have any suggestion/pointers apart from what you have mentioned in above presentation?
>
1) If drop_caches are working, then ideally this should also work with proper tuning.
Explore: /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio/bytes
Try tuning it with various values. I already talked about it before.
2) As I saw, you have large around of CMA free areas ( > 15MB). That means this amount of memory cannot be used for allocation even if it shown in system free memory.
Thus, if possible, try to disable CMA or reduce it to the least possible value.
3) Instead of rootfs, just try "dd" command on your system with 500MB block size. You might be seeing the same issue.
Thus, I think the root cause is, on a <256MB RAM system, you are trying to load 500MB of disk space which may obviously cause problems at least some times if not always.
If possible, try to squeeze your rootfs to few 100s mega bytes and check if it helps.
If its a read-only partition, you can even try to use SQUASH_FS which can compress the data.
>=======================================================
>Detailed Mail
>=======================================================
>We found the use case where we could reproduce the error every time.
>Use case:
>a. Create big rootfs containing 4k size files. Approximately 81000.
>b. Mount spare RFS partition of size 500MB.
>c. Untar big rootf.tar.gz onto mounted spare partition.
>d. With this use case we could reproduce issue every single time.
>e. I have attached the log where “Detected aborted journal” error is reproduced and just before that meminfo shows that 16KB memory block is not available. ( in while loop we were running echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger )
>2. We have tried following solutions so far
>a. If we disable journal we are not seeing the issue, However during untar if there is a power disconnect there are many file-system errors observed. (so we are not inclined to use this).
>b. Even if we change /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes value to 8192, issue is reproducible, if not in one round of untar, process second round of untar its reproducible.
You can try to by reducing free CMA areas and including tuning for dirty_background_ratio/bytes.
It should help.
>c. If we keep dropping caches couple of time while untar is underway we don’t see issue being reproduced.
>we used following commands for dropping caches and trigger memory
>compaction To free pagecache:
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free reclaimable slab
>objects (includes dentries and inodes):
> echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free slab objects and
>pagecache:
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To compact memory echo 1 >
>/proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
>
If drop_caches help because you have large amount of memory available in the form of caches because of heavy disk operations. Thus dropping caches at some interval followed by "sync" operation may help in keeping RAM free.
But, this is with the cost of system performance.
>
>Regarding questions you had asked previously,
>
>In addition, you may need to provide the following information:
>RAM size ?
>cat /proc/meminfo (before and after the operation) cat /proc/buddyinfo
>(before and after the operation) cat /proc/vmstat (before and after the
>operation)
>
>1. We have AM3352(running at 600Mhz) based custom board with 256MB RAM, 4GB of eMMC.
>2. Attached Logs_21_sep_2016.tar which contains buddyinfo, pagetypeinfo & vmstat before and after issue occurred.
>
>I am not sure, but I think this is the crude way of taking the backup.
>This will certainly overload your system.
>FOTA upgrade experts can give more comments here.
>3. Do you suggest any forum/mailing list for the same? I am searching on this.
>
>Did you tried enabling CONFIG_COMPACTION ?
>Try using ZRAM or ZSWAP (~30% of MemTotal).
>Try tuning : /proc/sys/vm/dirty_{background_ratio/bytes} and others.
>[Refer kernel/documentation for the same] 4. Yes COMPACTION is
>enabled, I tried that. I had used software swap, I had created a swap file and used that as swap, I haven't tried ZRAM and ZSWAP as yet.
>5. Swappiness value from /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is 60
>
>Is it : /proc/sys/vm/shrink_memory
>6. Yes, /proc/sys/vm/shrink_memory , I don't see it in my kernel, is it your kernel module exporting to proc ?
>
Yes, this is my new interface that I proposed, but unfortunately it was rejected.
It is not available in the mainline kernel.
>7. The log which I had copied didn't have swap enabled, I had tested it before.
>
>You have huge amount of memory sitting in caches. These can be reclaimed in back ground (with slight performance degradation).
>To experiment and debug you can try: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
>8. Yes dropping caches helps but how do we do it automatically rather
>than doing by writing to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ? (kernel module? )
>
It it is for experimental purpose, you can try invoking it from user space it in background with certain conditions.
Says, free memory is below some threshold but large memory available in buffers/cached.
Do not try to do this in kernel.
>Thank you,
>
>Regards,
>Ankur
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: PINTU KUMAR [mailto:pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 11:43 AM
>To: Ankur Tank <Ankur.Tank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>Cc: artfri2@xxxxxxxxx; pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Memory fragmentation issue related suggestion request
>
>Dear Ankur,
>
>I would suggest you register to linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx and explain your issues in details.
>There are other experts here, who can guide you.
>
>Few comments are inline below.
>
>> From: Ankur Tank [mailto:Ankur.Tank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 5:26 PM
>> To: pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: artfri2@xxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Memory fragmentation issue related suggestion request
>>
>> Hello Pintukumar,
>>
>> TL;DR
>> We have an issue in our Linux box, what looks like memory
>> fragmentation issue, while searching on net I referred talk you gave in Embedded Linux Conf.
>I have several talks in ELC, not sure which one you are referring to. Please point out.
>
>> I am facing this issue for couple of weeks so thought to ask you for suggestions.
>> Please forgive me If I offended you by writing mail to you, Ignore mail if you feel so.
>>
>> Details
>> We are facing one issue in our Embedded Linux board, Our board is
>> Beaglebone black based custom board, with 4GB eMMC as storage. We are
>> using Linux kernel 3.12.
>In addition, you may need to provide the following information:
>RAM size ?
>cat /proc/meminfo (before and after the operation) cat /proc/buddyinfo
>(before and after the operation) cat /proc/vmstat (before and after the
>operation)
>
>> Our firmware upgrade strategy is using backgup partition for
>> Bootloader, Kernel, dtb, rootfs.
>> So,
>> During firmware upgrade with big rootfs and running dd to read the
>> partition in raw mode.
>> In short looks like those operations are overloading the system.
>>
>I am not sure, but I think this is the crude way of taking the backup.
>This will certainly overload your system.
>FOTA upgrade experts can give more comments here.
>
>> From below log looks like pages above 32KB size is not available and
>> may be because of that rootfs tar on the emmc is failing.
>> I have following queries in that regards,
>>
>> 1. Do you think it is a memory fragmentation ?
>Yes, if all above 32KB (2^3 order) pages are not available, and pages are available in lower orders (2^0/1/2) then its certainly fragmentation problem.
>However, as I said, you need to provide the following output to confirm:
>cat /proc/buddyinfo
>
>> May be silly to ask so but just to confirm, because I had added the
>> software swap however with that also we were seeing issue
>> reproducible and swap was not full at that time ☹
>>
>Well, adding swap should help a bit but it may not solve the problem completely.
>How much swap did you actually allocated?
>What kind of swap you used ?
>Is it ZRAM/ZSWAP (with compression support) ?
>What is the swappiness ratio ? (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness)
>
>> 2. If it is so how do we handle it ? is there a some way similar to your shrinker
>> utility to reclaim the memory pages ?
>>
>Not sure which shrinker utility are you referring to ?
>Is it : /proc/sys/vm/shrink_memory ?
>
>> Any suggestion would help me move forward,
>>
>Did you tried enabling CONFIG_COMPACTION ?
>Try using ZRAM or ZSWAP (~30% of MemTotal).
>Try tuning : /proc/sys/vm/dirty_{background_ratio/bytes} and others.
>[Refer kernel/documentation for the same]
>
>From the logs, I observed the following:
>> [ 6676.674219] mmcqd/1: page allocation failure: order:1,
>> mode:0x200020
>Order-1 allocation is failing, so pages might be sitting in order-0.
>> [ 6676.674739] free_cma:1982
>You have around ~7MB of CMA free pages, so this cannot be used for non-movable allocation.
>> [ 6676.674885] 51661 total pagecache pages
>You have huge amount of memory sitting in caches. These can be reclaimed in back ground (with slight performance degradation).
>To experiment and debug you can try: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>> [ 6676.674925] Total swap = 0kB
>Swap is not enabled on your system.
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Ankur
>>
>> Error log
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> [ 6676.674219] mmcqd/1: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x200020
>> [ 6676.674256] CPU: 0 PID: 612 Comm: mmcqd/1 Tainted: P O 3.12.10-005-
>> ts-armv7l #2
>> [ 6676.674321] [<c0012d24>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf4) from
>> [<c0011130>]
>> (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
>> [ 6676.674355] [<c0011130>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from
>> [<c0087548>]
>> (warn_alloc_failed+0xe0/0x118)
>> [ 6676.674383] [<c0087548>] (warn_alloc_failed+0xe0/0x118) from
>> [<c008a3ac>]
>> (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x74c/0x8f8)
>> [ 6676.674413] [<c008a3ac>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x74c/0x8f8)
>> from [<c00b2e8c>] (cache_alloc_refill+0x328/0x620)
>> [ 6676.674436] [<c00b2e8c>] (cache_alloc_refill+0x328/0x620) from
>> [<c00b3224>] (__kmalloc+0xa0/0xe8)
>> [ 6676.674471] [<c00b3224>] (__kmalloc+0xa0/0xe8) from
>> [<c0212904>]
>> (edma_prep_slave_sg+0x84/0x388)
>> [ 6676.674505] [<c0212904>] (edma_prep_slave_sg+0x84/0x388) from
>> [<c02ec0a0>] (omap_hsmmc_request+0x414/0x508)
>> [ 6676.674544] [<c02ec0a0>] (omap_hsmmc_request+0x414/0x508) from
>> [<c02d6748>] (mmc_start_request+0xc4/0xe0)
>> [ 6676.674568] [<c02d6748>] (mmc_start_request+0xc4/0xe0) from
>> [<c02d7530>] (mmc_start_req+0x2d8/0x38c)
>> [ 6676.674589] [<c02d7530>] (mmc_start_req+0x2d8/0x38c) from
>> [<c02e4818>]
>> (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq+0xb4/0x9d8)
>> [ 6676.674611] [<c02e4818>] (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq+0xb4/0x9d8) from
>> [<c02e52e0>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x1a4/0x468)
>> [ 6676.674631] [<c02e52e0>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x1a4/0x468) from
>> [<c02e5c68>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x88/0x118)
>> [ 6676.674657] [<c02e5c68>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x88/0x118) from
>> [<c004d8b8>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8)
>> [ 6676.674681] [<c004d8b8>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8) from [<c000e298>]
>> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
>> [ 6676.674691] Mem-info:
>> [ 6676.674700] Normal per-cpu:
>> [ 6676.674711] CPU 0: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 79
>> [ 6676.674739] active_anon:4889 inactive_anon:13 isolated_anon:0
>> [ 6676.674739] active_file:8082 inactive_file:43196 isolated_file:0
>> [ 6676.674739] unevictable:422 dirty:2 writeback:1152 unstable:0
>> [ 6676.674739] free:3286 slab_reclaimable:1090 slab_unreclaimable:915
>> [ 6676.674739] mapped:1593 shmem:39 pagetables:181 bounce:0
>> [ 6676.674739] free_cma:1982
>> [ 6676.674800] Normal free:13144kB min:2004kB low:2504kB
>> high:3004kB active_anon:19556kB inactive_anon:52kB
>> active_file:32328kB inactive_file:172784kB unevictable:o
>> [ 6676.674813] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
>> [ 6676.674831] Normal: 2584*4kB (UMC) 217*8kB (C) 57*16kB (C)
>> 5*32kB (C) 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB
>> 0*8192kB = 13144kB
>> [ 6676.674885] 51661 total pagecache pages
>> [ 6676.674900] 0 pages in swap cache
>> [ 6676.674910] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
>> [ 6676.674918] Free swap = 0kB
>> [ 6676.674925] Total swap = 0kB
>> [ 6676.674938] SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0x20)
>> [ 6676.674949] cache: kmalloc-8192, object size: 8192, order: 1
>> [ 6676.674962] node 0: slabs: 3/3, objs: 3/3, free: 0
>> [ 6676.674984] omap_hsmmc 481d8000.mmc: prep_slave_sg() failed
>> [ 6676.674997] omap_hsmmc 481d8000.mmc: MMC start dma failure
>> [ 6676.676181] mmcblk0: unknown error -1 sending read/write
>> command, card status 0x900
>> [ 6676.676300] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27648
>> [ 6676.676318] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 896
>> [ 6676.676329] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676401] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27656
>> [ 6676.676415] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 897
>> [ 6676.676425] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676450] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27664
>> [ 6676.676461] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 898
>> [ 6676.676471] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676494] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27672
>> [ 6676.676505] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 899
>> [ 6676.676515] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676537] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27680
>> [ 6676.676548] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 900
>> [ 6676.676558] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676580] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27688
>> [ 6676.676591] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 901
>> [ 6676.676601] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676622] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27696
>> [ 6676.676634] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 902
>> [ 6676.676643] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676665] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27704
>> [ 6676.676676] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 903
>> [ 6676.676685] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676707] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27712
>> [ 6676.676718] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p9, logical block 904
>> [ 6676.676728] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p9
>> [ 6676.676749] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 27720
>> [ 6676.678266] mmcqd/1: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x200020
>> [ 6676.678285] CPU: 0 PID: 612 Comm: mmcqd/1 Tainted: P O 3.12.10-005-
>> ts-armv7l #2
>> [ 6676.678330] [<c0012d24>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf4) from
>> [<c0011130>]
>> (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
>> [ 6676.678358] [<c0011130>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from
>> [<c0087548>]
>> (warn_alloc_failed+0xe0/0x118)
>> [ 6676.678385] [<c0087548>] (warn_alloc_failed+0xe0/0x118) from
>> [<c008a3ac>]
>> (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x74c/0x8f8)
>> [ 6676.678412] [<c008a3ac>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x74c/0x8f8)
>> from [<c00b2e8c>] (cache_alloc_refill+0x328/0x620)
>> [ 6676.678434] [<c00b2e8c>] (cache_alloc_refill+0x328/0x620) from
>> [<c00b3224>] (__kmalloc+0xa0/0xe8)
>> [ 6676.678464] [<c00b3224>] (__kmalloc+0xa0/0xe8) from
>> [<c0212904>]
>> (edma_prep_slave_sg+0x84/0x388)
>> [ 6676.678493] [<c0212904>] (edma_prep_slave_sg+0x84/0x388) from
>> [<c02ec0a0>] (omap_hsmmc_request+0x414/0x508)
>> [ 6676.678524] [<c02ec0a0>] (omap_hsmmc_request+0x414/0x508) from
>> [<c02d6748>] (mmc_start_request+0xc4/0xe0)
>> [ 6676.678547] [<c02d6748>] (mmc_start_request+0xc4/0xe0) from
>> [<c02d7530>] (mmc_start_req+0x2d8/0x38c)
>> [ 6676.678568] [<c02d7530>] (mmc_start_req+0x2d8/0x38c) from
>> [<c02e4994>]
>> (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq+0x230/0x9d8)
>> [ 6676.678589] [<c02e4994>] (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq+0x230/0x9d8)
>> from [<c02e52e0>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x1a4/0x468)
>> [ 6676.678608] [<c02e52e0>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x1a4/0x468) from
>> [<c02e5c68>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x88/0x118)
>> [ 6676.678632] [<c02e5c68>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x88/0x118) from
>> [<c004d8b8>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8)
>> [ 6676.678655] [<c004d8b8>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8) from [<c000e298>]
>> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
>> [ 6676.678664] Mem-info:
>>
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