>OK, so the ENOMEM seems to be leaking from mem_cgroup_newpage_charge. >This can only happen if this was an atomic allocation request >(!__GFP_WAIT) or if oom is not allowed which is the case only for >transparent huge page allocation. >The first case can be excluded (in the clean 3.2 stable kernel) because >all callers of mem_cgroup_newpage_charge use GFP_KERNEL. The later one >should be OK because the page fault should fallback to a regular page if >THP allocation/charge fails. >[/me goes to double check] >Hmm do_huge_pmd_wp_page seems to charge a huge page and fails with >VM_FAULT_OOM without any fallback. We should do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback >instead. This has been fixed in 3.5-rc1 by 1f1d06c3 (thp, memcg: split >hugepage for memcg oom on cow) but it hasn't been backported to 3.2. The >patch applies to 3.2 without any further modifications. I didn't have >time to test it but if it helps you we should push this to the stable >tree. This, unfortunately, didn't fix the problem :( http://www.watchdog.sk/lkml/oom_mysqld3 -- 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>