On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:58:29 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kame,
>
> Sorry for late response.
> I had a time to test this issue shortly because these day I am very busy.
> This issue was interesting to me.
> So I hope taking a time for enough testing when I have a time.
> I should find out root cause of livelock.
>
Thanks. I and Kosaki-san reproduced the bug with swapless system.
Now, Kosaki-san is digging and found some issue with scheduler boost at OOM
and lack of enough "wait" in vmscan.c.
I myself made patch like attached one. This works well for returning TRUE at
all_unreclaimable() but livelock(deadlock?) still happens.
I wonder vmscan itself isn't a key for fixing issue.
Then, I'd like to wait for Kosaki-san's answer ;)
I'm now wondering how to catch fork-bomb and stop it (without using cgroup).
I think the problem is that fork-bomb is faster than killall...
Thanks,
-Kame
==
This is just a debug patch.
---
mm/vmscan.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: mmotm-0303/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-0303.orig/mm/vmscan.c
+++ mmotm-0303/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1983,9 +1983,55 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, s
}
}
-static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
+static bool zone_seems_empty(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
{
- return zone->pages_scanned < zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
+ unsigned long nr, wmark, free, isolated, lru;
+
+ /*
+ * If scanned, zone->pages_scanned is incremented and this can
+ * trigger OOM.
+ */
+ if (sc->nr_scanned)
+ return false;
+
+ free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+ isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
+ if (nr_swap_pages)
+ isolated += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
+
+ /* In we cannot do scan, don't count LRU pages. */
+ if (!zone->all_unreclaimable) {
+ lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
+ lru += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
+ if (nr_swap_pages) {
+ lru += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
+ lru += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
+ }
+ } else
+ lru = 0;
+ nr = free + isolated + lru;
+ wmark = min_wmark_pages(zone);
+ wmark += zone->lowmem_reserve[gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask)];
+ wmark += 1 << sc->order;
+ printk("thread %d/%ld all %d scanned %ld pages %ld/%ld/%ld/%ld/%ld/%ld\n",
+ current->pid, sc->nr_scanned, zone->all_unreclaimable,
+ zone->pages_scanned,
+ nr,free,isolated,lru,
+ zone_reclaimable_pages(zone), wmark);
+ /*
+ * In some case (especially noswap), almost all page cache are paged out
+ * and we'll see the amount of reclaimable+free pages is smaller than
+ * zone->min. In this case, we canoot expect any recovery other
+ * than OOM-KILL. We can't reclaim memory enough for usual tasks.
+ */
+
+ return nr <= wmark;
+}
+
+static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+ /* zone_reclaimable_pages() can return 0, we need <= */
+ return zone->pages_scanned <= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
}
/*
@@ -2006,11 +2052,15 @@ static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zon
continue;
if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
continue;
- if (zone_reclaimable(zone)) {
+ if (zone_seems_empty(zone, sc))
+ continue;
+ if (zone_reclaimable(zone, sc)) {
all_unreclaimable = false;
break;
}
}
+ if (all_unreclaimable)
+ printk("all_unreclaimable() returns TRUE\n");
return all_unreclaimable;
}
@@ -2456,7 +2506,7 @@ loop_again:
if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
continue;
if (!compaction && nr_slab == 0 &&
- !zone_reclaimable(zone))
+ !zone_reclaimable(zone, &sc))
zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
/*
* If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
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