Thanks for looking into this problem. On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 02:28, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 18:08:28 +0530 Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > mkfs -t ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386 kernel running on x86_64 device > > and started happening on linux -next master branch kernel tag next-20200430 > > and next-20200501. We did not bisect this problem. > > It would be wonderful if you could do so, please. I can't immediately see > any MM change in this area which might cause this. We are planning a bisection soon on this problem. > > > metadata > > git branch: master > > git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git > > git commit: e4a08b64261ab411b15580c369a3b8fbed28bbc1 > > git describe: next-20200430 > > make_kernelversion: 5.7.0-rc3 > > kernel-config: > > https://builds.tuxbuild.com/1YrE_XUQ6odA52tSBM919w/kernel.config > > > > Steps to reproduce: (always reproducible) > > Reproducibility helps! > > > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x101cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_WRITE), order=0, > > > [ 34.793430] pagecache_get_page+0xae/0x260 > > > [ 34.897923] active_anon:5366 inactive_anon:2172 isolated_anon:0 > > [ 34.897923] active_file:4151 inactive_file:212494 isolated_file:0 > > [ 34.897923] unevictable:0 dirty:16505 writeback:6520 unstable:0 > > > [ 34.987678] Normal free:3948kB min:7732kB low:8640kB high:9548kB > > reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB > > active_file:1096kB inactive_file:786400kB unevictable:0kB > > writepending:65432kB present:884728kB managed:845576kB mlocked:0kB > > kernel_stack:1112kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:2908kB > > local_pcp:500kB free_cma:0kB > > ZONE_NORMAL has a huge amount of clean pagecache stuck on the > inactive list, not being reclaimed. FYI, This issue is already reported here. Now this problem is happening and easily reproducible on i386 and arm beagleboard x15 devices. mkfs -t ext4 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SanDisk_SSD_PLUS_120GB_190703A01414 mke2fs 1.43.8 (1-Jan-2018) Discarding device blocks: 4096/29306880 2625536/29306880 9441280/29306880 16257024/29306880 23072768/29306880 done Creating filesystem with 29306880 4k blocks and 7331840 inodes Filesystem UUID: a838d994-0a1e-403a-88d5-444d75aecc5a Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Allocating group tables: 0/895 done Writing inode tables: 0/895 done Creating journal (131072 blocks): [ 31.251333] mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x101cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_WRITE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 [ 31.261172] CPU: 0 PID: 397 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-next-20200518 #1 [ 31.268771] Hardware name: Generic DRA74X (Flattened Device Tree) [ 31.274904] [<c0411500>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c040b66c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [ 31.282685] [<c040b66c>] (show_stack) from [<c08b1b14>] (dump_stack+0xc4/0xd8) [ 31.289940] [<c08b1b14>] (dump_stack) from [<c0547bf8>] (dump_header+0x54/0x1ec) [ 31.297367] [<c0547bf8>] (dump_header) from [<c0547008>] (oom_kill_process+0x18c/0x198) [ 31.305405] [<c0547008>] (oom_kill_process) from [<c0547a0c>] (out_of_memory+0x250/0x368) [ 31.313619] [<c0547a0c>] (out_of_memory) from [<c0599d80>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xce8/0x10bc) [ 31.322445] [<c0599d80>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [<c0541bb4>] (pagecache_get_page+0x128/0x358) [ 31.331619] [<c0541bb4>] (pagecache_get_page) from [<c0543a8c>] (grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x18/0x2c) [ 31.341054] [<c0543a8c>] (grab_cache_page_write_begin) from [<c0619fb0>] (block_write_begin+0x20/0xc4) [ 31.350401] [<c0619fb0>] (block_write_begin) from [<c053e718>] (generic_perform_write+0xb8/0x1d8) [ 31.359312] [<c053e718>] (generic_perform_write) from [<c054496c>] (__generic_file_write_iter+0x164/0x1ec) [ 31.369007] [<c054496c>] (__generic_file_write_iter) from [<c061c8a4>] (blkdev_write_iter+0xc8/0x1a4) [ 31.378269] [<c061c8a4>] (blkdev_write_iter) from [<c05d50d0>] (__vfs_write+0x13c/0x1cc) [ 31.386397] [<c05d50d0>] (__vfs_write) from [<c05d81d4>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x1bc) [ 31.393738] [<c05d81d4>] (vfs_write) from [<c05d85e4>] (ksys_pwrite64+0x60/0x8c) [ 31.401167] [<c05d85e4>] (ksys_pwrite64) from [<c04001a0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x4c) [ 31.409115] Exception stack(0xe810dfa8 to 0xe810dff0) [ 31.414185] dfa0: a2000000 0000000d 00000003 b6952008 00400000 00000000 [ 31.422395] dfc0: a2000000 0000000d a2000000 000000b5 00400000 0003b768 b6952008 00da2000 [ 31.430604] dfe0: 00000064 beb891b8 b6f85108 b6e38f2c [ 31.435809] Mem-Info: [ 31.438098] active_anon:5813 inactive_anon:4129 isolated_anon:0 [ 31.438098] active_file:6080 inactive_file:118548 isolated_file:0 [ 31.438098] unevictable:0 dirty:13674 writeback:7440 unstable:0 [ 31.438098] slab_reclaimable:5651 slab_unreclaimable:4566 [ 31.438098] mapped:5585 shmem:4468 pagetables:182 bounce:0 [ 31.438098] free:347556 free_pcp:608 free_cma:57235 [ 31.472362] Node 0 active_anon:23252kB inactive_anon:16516kB active_file:24320kB inactive_file:474192kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:22340kB dirty:54696kB writeback:11196kB shmem:17872kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? yes [ 31.500943] DMA free:187396kB min:22528kB low:28160kB high:33792kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4736kB inactive_file:431688kB unevictable:0kB writepending:62020kB present:783360kB managed:668264kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:888kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:880kB local_pcp:216kB free_cma:163840kB [ 31.531339] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 1216 0 [ 31.535289] HighMem free:1203904kB min:512kB low:11592kB high:22672kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:23252kB inactive_anon:16516kB active_file:19584kB inactive_file:42420kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:1310720kB managed:1310720kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:728kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:1584kB local_pcp:1232kB free_cma:65100kB [ 31.566540] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [ 31.570244] DMA: 87*4kB (UME) 53*8kB (UME) 26*16kB (UE) 6*32kB (UM) 1*64kB (E) 1*128kB (U) 5*256kB (ME) 5*512kB (ME) 4*1024kB (ME) 5*2048kB (M) 1*4096kB (M) 20*8192kB (C) = 187684kB [ 31.586520] HighMem: 2*4kB (MC) 1*8kB (C) 1*16kB (M) 5*32kB (UM) 4*64kB (UMC) 2*128kB (UM) 2*256kB (UM) 1*512kB (C) 2*1024kB (MC) 2*2048kB (MC) 2*4096kB (UC) 145*8192kB (MC) = 1203904kB [ 31.603150] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB [ 31.611637] 129102 total pagecache pages [ 31.615577] 0 pages in swap cache [ 31.618902] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 [ 31.624162] Free swap = 0kB [ 31.627053] Total swap = 0kB [ 31.629955] 523520 pages RAM [ 31.632846] 327680 pages HighMem/MovableOnly [ 31.637128] 28774 pages reserved [ 31.640381] 57344 pages cma reserved [ 31.643971] Tasks state (memory values in pages): [ 31.648691] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name [ 31.657367] [ 183] 0 183 7370 1082 36864 0 0 systemd-journal [ 31.666466] [ 209] 994 209 3742 326 40960 0 0 systemd-timesyn [ 31.675570] [ 217] 0 217 3398 817 32768 0 -1000 systemd-udevd [ 31.684498] [ 230] 993 230 1411 737 32768 0 0 systemd-network [ 31.693598] [ 231] 992 231 1496 712 32768 0 0 systemd-resolve [ 31.702702] [ 236] 996 236 1112 742 24576 0 -900 dbus-daemon [ 31.711454] [ 241] 0 241 1895 1045 36864 0 0 haveged [ 31.719857] [ 242] 0 242 1362 906 28672 0 0 systemd-logind [ 31.728855] [ 243] 0 243 13412 2571 69632 0 0 NetworkManager [ 31.737867] [ 244] 995 244 1197 608 28672 0 0 avahi-daemon [ 31.746707] [ 245] 995 245 1164 59 28672 0 0 avahi-daemon [ 31.755545] [ 246] 0 246 594 332 28672 0 0 atd [ 31.763601] [ 248] 0 248 699 99 24576 0 0 syslogd [ 31.772001] [ 251] 0 251 699 102 24576 0 0 klogd [ 31.780231] [ 252] 0 252 676 365 24576 0 0 crond [ 31.788443] [ 254] 0 254 1172 240 32768 0 0 systemd-hostnam [ 31.797547] [ 264] 65534 264 605 32 24576 0 0 dnsmasq [ 31.805948] [ 265] 0 265 556 357 28672 0 0 agetty [ 31.814262] [ 266] 0 266 1131 613 32768 0 0 login [ 31.822492] [ 268] 998 268 18201 2629 81920 0 0 polkitd [ 31.830895] [ 350] 0 350 1840 1161 32768 0 0 systemd [ 31.839286] [ 351] 0 351 2403 473 36864 0 0 (sd-pam) [ 31.847774] [ 355] 0 355 827 611 24576 0 0 sh [ 31.855742] [ 364] 0 364 7341 1145 53248 0 0 nm-dispatcher [ 31.864667] [ 377] 0 377 711 510 28672 0 0 lava-test-runne [ 31.873770] [ 387] 0 387 711 138 20480 0 0 lava-test-shell [ 31.882869] [ 388] 0 388 711 523 20480 0 0 sh [ 31.890837] [ 397] 0 397 1785 1518 36864 0 0 mkfs.ext4 [ 31.899397] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),global_oom,task_memcg=/,task=polkitd,pid=268,uid=998 [ 31.910012] Out of memory: Killed process 268 (polkitd) total-vm:72804kB, anon-rss:2948kB, file-rss:7568kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:998 pgtables:80kB oom_score_adj:0 [ 31.927948] oom_reaper: reaped process 268 (polkitd), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB [ 31.937461] mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x101cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_WRITE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 [ 31.947273] CPU: 1 PID: 397 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-next-20200518 #1 [ 31.954871] Hardware name: Generic DRA74X (Flattened Device Tree) [ 31.961000] [<c0411500>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c040b66c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [ 31.968778] [<c040b66c>] (show_stack) from [<c08b1b14>] (dump_stack+0xc4/0xd8) [ 31.976032] [<c08b1b14>] (dump_stack) from [<c0547bf8>] (dump_header+0x54/0x1ec) [ 31.983458] [<c0547bf8>] (dump_header) from [<c0547008>] (oom_kill_process+0x18c/0x198) [ 31.991495] [<c0547008>] (oom_kill_process) from [<c0547a0c>] (out_of_memory+0x250/0x368) [ 31.999706] [<c0547a0c>] (out_of_memory) from [<c0599d80>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xce8/0x10bc) [ 32.008532] [<c0599d80>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [<c0541bb4>] (pagecache_get_page+0x128/0x358) [ 32.017704] [<c0541bb4>] (pagecache_get_page) from [<c0543a8c>] (grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x18/0x2c) [ 32.027138] [<c0543a8c>] (grab_cache_page_write_begin) from [<c0619fb0>] (block_write_begin+0x20/0xc4) [ 32.036484] [<c0619fb0>] (block_write_begin) from [<c053e718>] (generic_perform_write+0xb8/0x1d8) [ 32.045395] [<c053e718>] (generic_perform_write) from [<c054496c>] (__generic_file_write_iter+0x164/0x1ec) [ 32.055090] [<c054496c>] (__generic_file_write_iter) from [<c061c8a4>] (blkdev_write_iter+0xc8/0x1a4) [ 32.064350] [<c061c8a4>] (blkdev_write_iter) from [<c05d50d0>] (__vfs_write+0x13c/0x1cc) [ 32.072476] [<c05d50d0>] (__vfs_write) from [<c05d81d4>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x1bc) [ 32.079814] [<c05d81d4>] (vfs_write) from [<c05d85e4>] (ksys_pwrite64+0x60/0x8c) [ 32.087241] [<c05d85e4>] (ksys_pwrite64) from [<c04001a0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x4c) [ 32.095187] Exception stack(0xe810dfa8 to 0xe810dff0) [ 32.100256] dfa0: a2000000 0000000d 00000003 b6952008 00400000 00000000 [ 32.108466] dfc0: a2000000 0000000d a2000000 000000b5 00400000 0003b768 b6952008 00da2000 [ 32.116673] dfe0: 00000064 beb891b8 b6f85108 b6e38f2c [ 32.121786] Mem-Info: [ 32.124070] active_anon:5056 inactive_anon:4129 isolated_anon:0 [ 32.124070] active_file:6289 inactive_file:118790 isolated_file:0 [ 32.124070] unevictable:0 dirty:14118 writeback:6 unstable:0 [ 32.124070] slab_reclaimable:5653 slab_unreclaimable:4209 [ 32.124070] mapped:4839 shmem:4468 pagetables:165 bounce:0 [ 32.124070] free:348249 free_pcp:562 free_cma:57235 [ 32.158031] Node 0 active_anon:20224kB inactive_anon:16516kB active_file:25156kB inactive_file:475160kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:19356kB dirty:56472kB writeback:24kB shmem:17872kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? yes [ 32.186324] DMA free:186320kB min:22528kB low:28160kB high:33792kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4736kB inactive_file:433580kB unevictable:0kB writepending:56468kB present:783360kB managed:668264kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:888kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:420kB local_pcp:220kB free_cma:163840kB [ 32.216693] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 1216 0 [ 32.220652] HighMem free:1206676kB min:512kB low:11592kB high:22672kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:20224kB inactive_anon:16516kB active_file:20420kB inactive_file:41584kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:1310720kB managed:1310720kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:660kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:1816kB local_pcp:340kB free_cma:65100kB [ 32.251805] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [ 32.255482] DMA: 2*4kB (UM) 3*8kB (UME) 1*16kB (U) 1*32kB (M) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 5*256kB (ME) 5*512kB (ME) 4*1024kB (ME) 5*2048kB (M) 1*4096kB (M) 20*8192kB (C) = 186320kB [ 32.270871] HighMem: 183*4kB (UMC) 65*8kB (UMC) 21*16kB (M) 11*32kB (UM) 6*64kB (UMC) 3*128kB (UM) 3*256kB (UM) 2*512kB (MC) 2*1024kB (MC) 2*2048kB (MC) 2*4096kB (UC) 145*8192kB (MC) = 1206676kB [ 32.288273] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB [ 32.296751] 129546 total pagecache pages [ 32.300695] 0 pages in swap cache [ 32.304019] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 [ 32.309260] Free swap = 0kB [ 32.312155] Total swap = 0kB [ 32.315045] 523520 pages RAM [ 32.317932] 327680 pages HighMem/MovableOnly [ 32.322221] 28774 pages reserved [ 32.325457] 57344 pages cma reserved [ 32.329043] Tasks state (memory values in pages): [ 32.333771] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name [ 32.342436] [ 183] 0 183 7370 1082 36864 0 0 systemd-journal [ 32.351529] [ 209] 994 209 3742 326 40960 0 0 systemd-timesyn [ 32.360620] [ 217] 0 217 3398 817 32768 0 -1000 systemd-udevd [ 32.369528] [ 230] 993 230 1411 737 32768 0 0 systemd-network [ 32.378620] [ 231] 992 231 1496 712 32768 0 0 systemd-resolve [ 32.387713] [ 236] 996 236 1112 742 24576 0 -900 dbus-daemon [ 32.396456] [ 241] 0 241 1895 1045 36864 0 0 haveged [ 32.404850] [ 242] 0 242 1362 906 28672 0 0 systemd-logind [ 32.413852] [ 243] 0 243 13412 2571 69632 0 0 NetworkManager [ 32.422858] [ 244] 995 244 1197 608 28672 0 0 avahi-daemon [ 32.431687] [ 245] 995 245 1164 59 28672 0 0 avahi-daemon [ 32.440518] [ 246] 0 246 594 332 28672 0 0 atd [ 32.448553] [ 248] 0 248 699 99 24576 0 0 syslogd [ 32.456945] [ 251] 0 251 699 102 24576 0 0 klogd [ 32.465171] [ 252] 0 252 676 365 24576 0 0 crond [ 32.473390] [ 254] 0 254 1172 240 32768 0 0 systemd-hostnam [ 32.482481] [ 264] 65534 264 605 32 24576 0 0 dnsmasq [ 32.490876] [ 265] 0 265 556 357 28672 0 0 agetty [ 32.499175] [ 266] 0 266 1131 613 32768 0 0 login [ 32.507394] [ 350] 0 350 1840 1161 32768 0 0 systemd [ 32.515788] [ 351] 0 351 2403 473 36864 0 0 (sd-pam) [ 32.524268] [ 355] 0 355 827 611 24576 0 0 sh [ 32.532227] [ 364] 0 364 7341 1145 53248 0 0 nm-dispatcher [ 32.541142] [ 377] 0 377 711 510 28672 0 0 lava-test-runne [ 32.550234] [ 387] 0 387 711 138 20480 0 0 lava-test-shell [ 32.559316] [ 388] 0 388 711 523 20480 0 0 sh [ 32.567273] [ 397] 0 397 1785 1518 36864 0 0 mkfs.ext4 ref: https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1436647#L4261 https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1436562#L1247 -- Linaro LKFT https://lkft.linaro.org