On Thu 18-05-17 10:47:29, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 18-05-17 07:03:36, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Roman Gushchin wrote: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Wed 17-05-17 16:26:20, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > [ 25.781882] Out of memory: Kill process 492 (allocate) score 899 or sacrifice child > > > > > [ 25.783874] Killed process 492 (allocate) total-vm:2052368kB, anon-rss:1894576kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB > > > > > > > > Are there any oom_reaper messages? Could you provide the full kernel log > > > > please? > > > > > > Sure. Sorry, it was too bulky, so I've cut the line about oom_reaper by mistake. > > > Here it is: > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [ 25.721494] allocate invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x14280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 > > > [ 25.725658] allocate cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 > > > > > [ 25.759892] Node 0 DMA32 free:44700kB min:44704kB low:55880kB high:67056kB active_anon:1944216kB inactive_anon:204kB active_file:592kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:304kB present:2080640kB managed:2031972kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:11336kB slab_unreclaimable:9784kB kernel_stack:1776kB pagetables:6932kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB > > > > > [ 25.781882] Out of memory: Kill process 492 (allocate) score 899 or sacrifice child > > > [ 25.783874] Killed process 492 (allocate) total-vm:2052368kB, anon-rss:1894576kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB > > > > > [ 25.785680] allocate: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x14280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null) > > > [ 25.786797] allocate cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 > > > > This is a side effect of commit 9a67f6488eca926f ("mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL > > checks in the allocator slowpath") which I noticed at > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7f932bf-313a-917d-6304-81528aca5994@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . > > Hmm, I guess you are right. I haven't realized that pagefault_out_of_memory > can race and pick up another victim. For some reason I thought that the > page fault would break out on fatal signal pending but we don't do that (we > used to in the past). Now that I think about that more we should > probably remove out_of_memory out of pagefault_out_of_memory completely. > It is racy and it basically doesn't have any allocation context so we > might kill a task from a different domain. So can we do this instead? > There is a slight risk that somebody might have returned VM_FAULT_OOM > without doing an allocation but from my quick look nobody does that > currently. If this is considered too risky then we can do what Roman was proposing and check tsk_is_oom_victim in pagefault_out_of_memory and bail out. -- 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>