Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: account the number of isolated pages per zone

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 07:30:54PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Brian Foster wrote:
> > > The workload is to write to a single file on XFS from 10 processes demonstrated at
> > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201512052133.IAE00551.LSOQFtMFFVOHOJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > using "while :; do ./oom-write; done" loop on a VM with 4CPUs / 2048MB RAM.
> > > With this XFS_FILBLKS_MIN() change applied, I no longer hit assertion failures.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for testing. Well, that's an interesting workload. I couldn't
> > reproduce on a few quick tries in a similarly configured vm.
> 
> It takes 10 to 15 minutes. Maybe some size threshold involved?
> 
> > /tmp/file _is_ on an XFS filesystem in your test, correct? If so and if
> > you still have the output file from a test that reproduced, could you
> > get the 'xfs_io -c "fiemap -v" <file>' output?
> 
> Here it is.
> 
> [  720.199748] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
> [  720.199749] 150524 pages reserved
> [  720.199749] 0 pages cma reserved
> [  720.199750] 0 pages hwpoisoned
> [  722.187335] XFS: Assertion failed: oldlen > newlen, file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c, line: 2867
> [  722.201784] ------------[ cut here ]------------
...
> 
> # ls -l /tmp/file
> -rw------- 1 kumaneko kumaneko 43426648064 Feb  7 19:25 /tmp/file
> # xfs_io -c "fiemap -v" /tmp/file
> /tmp/file:
>  EXT: FILE-OFFSET          BLOCK-RANGE            TOTAL FLAGS
>    0: [0..262015]:         358739712..359001727  262016   0x0
...
>  187: [84810808..84901119]: 110211736..110302047   90312   0x1

Ok, from the size of the file I realized that I missed you were running
in a loop the first time around. I tried playing with it some more and
still haven't been able to reproduce.

Anyways, the patch intended to fix this has been reviewed[1] and queued
for the next release, so it's probably not a big deal since you've
already verified it. Thanks again.

Brian

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg04083.html
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