On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:09:54PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > This is a difficult-to-trigger silent hang up bug. > > The kswapd is allowed to bypass too_many_isolated() check in > shrink_inactive_list(). But the kswapd can be blocked by locks in > shrink_page_list() in shrink_inactive_list(). If the task which is > blocking the kswapd is trying to allocate memory with the locks held, > it forms memory reclaim deadlock. It's a known problem in XFS and I'm currently working on patches to fix it by hoisting the memory allocations outside of the CIL context lock. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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>