On Mon 26-09-16 19:33:09, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michal Hocko: > > > On Wed 21-09-16 07:46:12, Dave Chinner wrote: > >> [cc Michal, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx] > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > [...] > >> > [51669.515086] make invoked oom-killer: > >> > gfp_mask=0x27000c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_NOTRACK), order=2, > >> > oom_score_adj=0 > >> > [51669.515092] CPU: 1 PID: 1202 Comm: make Tainted: G I 4.7.1fw #1 > >> > [51669.515093] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product > >> > Name/P6X58D-E, BIOS 0701 05/10/2011 > >> > [51669.515095] 0000000000000000 ffffffff812a7d39 0000000000000000 > >> > 0000000000000000 > >> > [51669.515098] ffffffff8114e4da ffff880018707d98 0000000000000000 > >> > 000000000066ca81 > >> > [51669.515100] ffffffff8170e88d ffffffff810fe69e ffff88033fc38728 > >> > 0000000200000006 > >> > [51669.515102] Call Trace: > >> > [51669.515108] [<ffffffff812a7d39>] ? dump_stack+0x46/0x5d > >> > [51669.515113] [<ffffffff8114e4da>] ? dump_header.isra.12+0x51/0x176 > >> > [51669.515116] [<ffffffff810fe69e>] ? oom_kill_process+0x32e/0x420 > >> > [51669.515119] [<ffffffff811003a0>] ? page_alloc_cpu_notify+0x40/0x40 > >> > [51669.515120] [<ffffffff810fdcdc>] ? find_lock_task_mm+0x2c/0x70 > >> > [51669.515122] [<ffffffff810fea6d>] ? out_of_memory+0x28d/0x2d0 > >> > [51669.515125] [<ffffffff81103137>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb97/0xc90 > >> > [51669.515128] [<ffffffff81076d9c>] ? copy_process.part.54+0xec/0x17a0 > >> > [51669.515131] [<ffffffff81123318>] ? handle_mm_fault+0xaa8/0x1900 > >> > [51669.515133] [<ffffffff81078614>] ? _do_fork+0xd4/0x320 > >> > [51669.515137] [<ffffffff81084ecc>] ? __set_current_blocked+0x2c/0x40 > >> > [51669.515140] [<ffffffff810013ce>] ? do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x80 > >> > [51669.515144] [<ffffffff8151433c>] ? entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 > >> ..... > >> > [51669.515194] DMA: 1*4kB (U) 1*8kB (U) 1*16kB (U) 0*32kB 2*64kB > >> > (U) 1*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 1*1024kB (U) 1*2048kB (M) > >> > 3*4096kB (M) = 15900kB > >> > [51669.515202] DMA32: 45619*4kB (UME) 73*8kB (UM) 0*16kB 0*32kB > >> > 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = > >> > 183060kB > >> > [51669.515209] Normal: 39979*4kB (UE) 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB > >> > 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 159916kB > >> ..... > >> > >> Alright, that's what I suspected. high order allocation for a new > >> kernel stack and memory is so fragmented that a contiguous > >> allocation fails. Really, this is a memory reclaim issue, not an XFS > >> issue. There is lots of reclaimable memory available, but memory > >> reclaim is: > >> > >> a) not trying hard enough to reclaim reclaimable memory; and > >> b) not waiting for memory compaction to rebuild contiguous > >> memory regions for high order allocations. > >> > >> Instead, it is declaring OOM and kicking the killer to free memory > >> held busy userspace. > > > > Yes this was the case with 4.7 kernel. There is a workaround sitting in > > the linus tree 6b4e3181d7bd ("mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer > > invocation for high order request") which should get to stable > > eventually. More approapriate fix is currently in the linux-next. > > > > Testing the same workload with linux-next would be very helpful. > > I'm not sure if I can reproduce this issue in a sufficiently reliable > way, but I can try. (I still have not found the process which causes > the xfs_inode allocations go up.) > > Is linux-next still the tree to test? Yes it contains all the compaction related fixes which we believe to address recent higher order OOMs. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html