Re: [PATCH] mm: Avoid swapping in interrupt context

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On Wed 03-10-18 16:18:37, Ashish Mhetre wrote:
> > How? No allocation request from the interrupt context can use a
> > sleepable allocation context and that means that no reclaim is allowed
> > from the IRQ context.
> Kernel Oops happened when ZRAM was used as swap with zsmalloc as alloctor
> under memory pressure condition.
> This is probably because of kmalloc() from IRQ as pointed out by Sergey.

Yes most likely and that should be fixed.
 
> > Could you provide the Oops message?
> BUG_ON() got triggered at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/mm/zsmalloc.c?h=next-20181002#n1324 with Oops message:
> [ 264.082531] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> [ 264.088350] Modules linked in:
> [ 264.091406] CPU: 0 PID: 3805 Comm: kworker/0:4 Tainted: G W
> 3.10.33-g990282b #1
> [ 264.099572] Workqueue: events netstat_work_func
> [ 264.104097] task: e7b12040 ti: dc7d4000 task.ti: dc7d4000
> [ 264.109485] PC is at zs_map_object+0x180/0x18c
> [ 264.113918] LR is at zram_bvec_rw.isra.15+0x304/0x88c
> [ 264.118956] pc : [<c01581e8>] lr : [<c0456618>] psr: 200f0013
> [ 264.118956] sp : dc7d5460 ip : fff00814 fp : 00000002
> [ 264.130407] r10: ea8ec000 r9 : ebc93340 r8 : 00000000
> [ 264.135618] r7 : c191502c r6 : dc7d4020 r5 : d25f5684 r4 : ec3158c0
> [ 264.142128] r3 : 00000200 r2 : 00000002 r1 : c191502c r0 : ea8ec000

This doesn't show the backtrace part which contains the allocation
AFAICS.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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