Yafang Shao wrote: > 2017-11-26 16:03 GMT+08:00 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Yafang Shao wrote: > >> >> I have also verified your test code on my machine, but can not find > >> >> this message. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Not always printed. It is timing dependent. > >> > > >> > >> I will try and analysis why this happen. > >> > > I see. > > > > Here is dump of variables. Always mostly 0 when this happens. > > > > --- a/mm/page-writeback.c > > +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c > > @@ -434,7 +434,8 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) > > bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE; > > > > if (unlikely(bg_thresh >= thresh)) { > > - pr_warn("vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit.\n"); > > + pr_warn("vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=%lu thresh=%lu bg_bytes=%lu bytes=%lu bg_ratio=%lu ratio=%lu gdtc=%p gdtc->vail=%lu vm_dirty_bytes=%lu dirty_background_bytes=%lu\n", > > + bg_thresh, thresh, bg_bytes, bytes, bg_ratio, ratio, gdtc, gdtc ? gdtc->avail : 0UL, vm_dirty_bytes, dirty_background_bytes); > > bg_thresh = thresh / 2; > > } > > You could print dtc->avail as well. > Seems bg_thresh and thresh are not so acurate as they are interger > other than float. Indeed, dtc->avail < 4 when this message is printed. [ 314.730541] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=2 [ 315.864111] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=1 [ 315.864126] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=1 [ 315.993866] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=2 [ 355.807392] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=2 [ 406.819939] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=1 [ 407.782790] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=1 [ 416.939906] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=1 [ 417.090872] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093164] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093176] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093183] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093191] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093198] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093206] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093213] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093223] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093232] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 [ 417.093240] vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit. bg_thresh=0 thresh=0 bg_bytes=0 bytes=0 bg_ratio=409 ratio=1228 gdtc= (null) gdtc->avail=0 vm_dirty_bytes=0 dirty_background_bytes=0 dtc->avail=3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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