Hi Luigi, Question. Is it a 3.4.0 vanilla kernel? Otherwise, some hacky patches(ex, min_filelist_kbytes) are applied? On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:46:34PM -0800, Luigi Semenzato wrote: > Greetings MM folks, > > and thanks again for fixing my previous hang-with-zram problem. I am > now running into a similar problem and I hope I will not take > advantage of your kindness by asking for further advice. > > By running a few dozen memory-hungry processes on an ARM cpu with 2 Gb > RAM, with zram enabled, I can easily get into a situation where all > processes are either: > > 1. blocked in a futex > 2. trying unsuccessfully to allocate memory > > This happens when there should still be plenty of memory: the zram > swap device is about 1/3 full. (The output of SysRq-M is at the end.) > Yet the SI and SO fields of vmstat stay at 0, and CPU utilization is > 100% system. > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 46 0 1076432 13636 2844 216648 0 0 0 0 621 229 0 100 0 0 > 44 0 1076432 13636 2844 216648 0 0 0 0 618 204 0 100 0 0 > > I added counters in various places in the page allocator to see which > paths were being taken and noticed the following facts: > > - alloc_page_slowpath is looping, apparently trying to rebalance. It > calls alloc_pages_direct_reclaim at a rate of about 155 times/second, > and gets one page about once every 500 calls. Did_some_progress is > always set to true. Then should_alloc_retry returns true (because > order < PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER). > > - kswapd is asleep and is not woken up because alloc_page_slowpath > never goes to the "restart" label. > > My questions are: > > 1. is it obvious to any of you what is going wrong? > 1.1 is the allocation failing because nobody is waking up kswapd? And > if so, why not? > > 2. if it's not obvious, what are the next things to look into? > > 3. is there a better way of debugging this? > > Thanks! > Luigi > > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.4.0 > (semenzato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.6.x-google > 20120301 (prerelease) (gcc-4.6.3_cos_gg_2a32ae6) ) #26 SMP Tue Nov 20 > 14:27:15 PST 2012 > [ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc0f4] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d > [ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, PIPT instruction cache > [ 0.000000] Machine: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), > model: Google Snow > ... > [ 198.564328] SysRq : Show Memory > [ 198.564347] Mem-info: > [ 198.564355] Normal per-cpu: > [ 198.564364] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > [ 198.564373] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > [ 198.564381] HighMem per-cpu: > [ 198.564389] CPU 0: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 0 > [ 198.564397] CPU 1: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 0 > [ 198.564411] active_anon:196868 inactive_anon:66835 isolated_anon:47 > [ 198.564415] active_file:13931 inactive_file:11043 isolated_file:0 > [ 198.564419] unevictable:0 dirty:4 writeback:1 unstable:0 > [ 198.564423] free:3409 slab_reclaimable:2583 slab_unreclaimable:3337 > [ 198.564427] mapped:137910 shmem:29899 pagetables:3972 bounce:0 > [ 198.564449] Normal free:13384kB min:5380kB low:6724kB high:8068kB > active_anon:782052kB inactive_anon:261808kB active_file:25020kB > inactive_file:24900kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):16kB > isolated(file):0kB present:1811520kB mlocked:0kB dirty:12kB > writeback:0kB mapped:461296kB shmem:115892kB slab_reclaimable:10332kB > slab_unreclaimable:13348kB kernel_stack:3008kB pagetables:15888kB > unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:107282320 > all_unreclaimable? no > [ 198.564474] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2095 2095 > [ 198.564499] HighMem free:252kB min:260kB low:456kB high:656kB > active_anon:5420kB inactive_anon:5532kB active_file:30704kB > inactive_file:19272kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):172kB > isolated(file):0kB present:268224kB mlocked:0kB dirty:4kB > writeback:4kB mapped:90344kB shmem:3704kB slab_reclaimable:0kB > slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB > bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:7081406 all_unreclaimable? > no > [ 198.564523] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 > [ 198.564536] Normal: 1570*4kB 6*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB > 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 13384kB > [ 198.564574] HighMem: 59*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB > 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 252kB > [ 198.564610] 123112 total pagecache pages > [ 198.564616] 68239 pages in swap cache > [ 198.564622] Swap cache stats: add 466115, delete 397876, find 31817/56350 > [ 198.564630] Free swap = 1952336kB > [ 198.564635] Total swap = 3028768kB > [ 198.564640] xxcount_nr_reclaimed 358488 > [ 198.564646] xxcount_nr_reclaims 6201 > [ 198.564651] xxcount_aborted_reclaim 0 > [ 198.564656] xxcount_more_to_do 5137 > [ 198.564662] xxcount_direct_reclaims 17065 > [ 198.564667] xxcount_failed_direct_reclaims 10708 > [ 198.564673] xxcount_no_progress 5696 > [ 198.564678] xxcount_restarts 5696 > [ 198.564683] xxcount_should_alloc_retry 5008 > [ 198.564688] xxcount_direct_compact 1 > [ 198.564693] xxcount_alloc_failed 115 > [ 198.564699] xxcount_gfp_nofail 0 > [ 198.564704] xxcount_costly_order 5009 > [ 198.564709] xxcount_repeat 0 > [ 198.564714] xxcount_kswapd_nap 2210 > [ 198.564719] xxcount_kswapd_sleep 17 > [ 198.564724] xxcount_kswapd_loop 2211 > [ 198.564729] xxcount_kswapd_try_to_sleep 2210 > [ 198.575349] 524288 pages of RAM > [ 198.575358] 4420 free pages > [ 198.575365] 7122 reserved pages > [ 198.575371] 4091 slab pages > [ 198.575378] 302549 pages shared > [ 198.575384] 68239 pages swap cached > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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