Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Wait for oom_lock before retrying.

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On (12/14/16 10:37), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > ----------
> > [  450.767693] Out of memory: Kill process 14642 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
> > [  450.769974] Killed process 14642 (a.out) total-vm:4168kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> > [  450.776538] oom_reaper: reaped process 14642 (a.out), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> > [  450.781170] Out of memory: Kill process 14643 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
> > [  450.783469] Killed process 14643 (a.out) total-vm:4168kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> > [  450.787912] oom_reaper: reaped process 14643 (a.out), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> > [  450.792630] Out of memory: Kill process 14644 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
> > [  450.964031] a.out: page allocation stalls for 10014ms, order:0, mode:0x24280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO)
> > [  450.964033] CPU: 0 PID: 14622 Comm: a.out Tainted: G        W       4.9.0+ #99
> > (...snipped...)
> > [  740.984902] a.out: page allocation stalls for 300003ms, order:0, mode:0x24280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO)
> > [  740.984905] CPU: 0 PID: 14622 Comm: a.out Tainted: G        W       4.9.0+ #99
> > ----------
> > 
> > Although it is fine to make warn_alloc() less verbose, this is not
> > a problem which can be avoided by simply reducing printk(). Unless
> > we give enough CPU time to the OOM killer and OOM victims, it is
> > trivial to lockup the system.
> 
> You could try to use printk_deferred() in warn_alloc(). It will not
> handle console. It will help to be sure that the blocked printk()
> is the main problem.

I thought about deferred printk, but I'm afraid in the given
conditions this has great chances to badly lockup the system.

	-ss

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