On Mon 24-06-19 21:11:55, zhong jiang wrote: > [ 652.272622] sh invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x26080c0, order=3, oom_score_adj=0 > [ 652.272683] CPU: 0 PID: 1748 Comm: sh Tainted: P O 4.4.171 #8 > [ 653.452827] Mem-Info: > [ 653.466390] active_anon:20377 inactive_anon:187 isolated_anon:0 > [ 653.466390] active_file:5087 inactive_file:4825 isolated_file:0 > [ 653.466390] unevictable:12 dirty:0 writeback:32 unstable:0 > [ 653.466390] slab_reclaimable:636 slab_unreclaimable:1754 > [ 653.466390] mapped:5338 shmem:194 pagetables:231 bounce:0 > [ 653.466390] free:1086 free_pcp:85 free_cma:0 > [ 653.625286] Normal free:4248kB min:1696kB low:2120kB high:2544kB active_anon:81508kB inactive_anon:748kB active_file:20348kB inactive_file:19300kB unevictable:48kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:252928kB managed:180496kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:128kB mapped:21352kB shmem:776kB slab_reclaimable:2544kB slab_unreclaimable:7016kB kernel_stack:9856kB pagetables:924kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:392kB local_pcp:392kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > [ 654.177121] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 > [ 654.462015] Normal: 752*4kB (UME) 128*8kB (UM) 21*16kB (M) 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4368kB > [ 654.601093] 10132 total pagecache pages > [ 654.606655] 63232 pages RAM [...] > >> As the process is created, kernel stack will use the higher order to allocate continuous memory. > >> Due to the fragmentabtion, we fails to allocate the memory. And the low memory will result > >> in hardly memory compction. hence, it will easily to reproduce the oom. > > How get your get such a large fragmentation that you cannot allocate > > order-1 pages and compaction is not making any progress? > >From the above oom report, we can see that there is not order-2 pages. It wil hardly to allocate kernel stack when > creating the process. And we can easily to reproduce the situation when runing some userspace program. > > But it rarely trigger the oom when It do not introducing the highatomic. we test that in the kernel 3.10. I do not really see how highatomic reserves could make any difference. We do drain them before OOM killer is invoked. The above oom report confirms that there is indeed no order-3+ free page to be used. It is hard to tell whether compaction has done all it could but there have many changes in this area since 4.4 so I would be really curious about the current upstream kernel behavior. I would also note that relying on order-3 allocation is far from optimal. I am not sure what exactly copy_process.part.2+0xe4 refers to but if this is really a stack allocation then I would consider such a large stack really dangerous for a small system. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
