On Sun 05-02-17 19:43:07, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > Below one is also a loop. Maybe we can add __GFP_NOMEMALLOC to GFP_NOWAIT ? No, GFP_NOWAIT is just too generic to use this flag. > [ 257.781715] Out of memory: Kill process 5171 (a.out) score 842 or sacrifice child > [ 257.784726] Killed process 5171 (a.out) total-vm:2177096kB, anon-rss:1476488kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB > [ 257.787691] a.out(5171): TIF_MEMDIE allocation: order=0 mode=0x1000200(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NOWARN) > [ 257.789789] CPU: 3 PID: 5171 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.10.0-rc6-next-20170202+ #500 > [ 257.791784] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/02/2015 > [ 257.794700] Call Trace: > [ 257.795690] dump_stack+0x85/0xc9 > [ 257.797224] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xacb/0xe36 > [ 257.798612] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x382/0x3d0 > [ 257.799942] alloc_pages_current+0x97/0x1b0 > [ 257.801236] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x50 > [ 257.802546] __tlb_remove_page_size+0x70/0xd0 This is bound to MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT which shouldn't be a lot of pages (20 or so). We could add __GFP_NOMEMALLOC into tlb_next_batch but I am not entirely convinced it is really necessary. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>