On 08/10/2012 10:54 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 09-08-12 17:01:10, Glauber Costa wrote: >> From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before kmem accounting, and expects >> three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 >> pages, or being called for a hugepage. If we call for 2 or 3 pages (and >> both the stack and several slabs used in process creation are such, at >> least with the debug options I had), it assumed it's being called for >> stock and just retried without reclaiming. >> >> Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize. >> >> And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry? If it's >> needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle >> races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far? >> And should there be a retry count limit, of what? For now retry up to >> COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does) and make sure not to do it if >> __GFP_NORETRY. >> >> [v4: fixed nr pages calculation pointed out by Christoph Lameter ] >> >> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I am not happy with the min_pages argument but we can do something more > clever later. > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > I am a bit confused here. Does your ack come before or after your other comments on this patch? -- 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>