The patch titled Subject: mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages Although there are a ton of free swap and anonymous LRU page in elgible zones, OOM happened. balloon invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x17080c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOTRACK), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 CPU: 7 PID: 1138 Comm: balloon Not tainted 4.11.0-rc6-mm1-zram-00289-ge228d67e9677-dirty #17 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x65/0x87 dump_header.isra.19+0x8f/0x20f ? preempt_count_add+0x9e/0xb0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40 oom_kill_process+0x21d/0x3f0 ? has_capability_noaudit+0x17/0x20 out_of_memory+0xd8/0x390 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xbc1/0xc50 ? anon_vma_interval_tree_insert+0x84/0x90 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1a5/0x1c0 pte_alloc_one+0x20/0x50 __pte_alloc+0x1e/0x110 __handle_mm_fault+0x919/0x960 handle_mm_fault+0x77/0x120 __do_page_fault+0x27a/0x550 trace_do_page_fault+0x43/0x150 do_async_page_fault+0x2c/0x90 async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 RIP: 0033:0x7fc4636bacb8 RSP: 002b:00007fff97c9c4c0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 00007fc3e818d000 RBX: 00007fc4639f8760 RCX: 00007fc46372e9ca RDX: 0000000000101002 RSI: 0000000000101000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000100010 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 00000000000a3901 R12: 00007fc3e818d010 R13: 0000000000101000 R14: 00007fc4639f87b8 R15: 00007fc4639f87b8 Mem-Info: active_anon:424716 inactive_anon:65314 isolated_anon:0 active_file:52 inactive_file:46 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:27 writeback:0 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:3967 slab_unreclaimable:4125 mapped:133 shmem:43 pagetables:1674 bounce:0 free:4637 free_pcp:225 free_cma:0 Node 0 active_anon:1698864kB inactive_anon:261256kB active_file:208kB inactive_file:184kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:532kB dirty:108kB writeback:0kB shmem:172kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? no DMA free:7316kB min:32kB low:44kB high:56kB active_anon:8064kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15992kB managed:15908kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:464kB slab_unreclaimable:40kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:24kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 992 992 1952 DMA32 free:9088kB min:2048kB low:3064kB high:4080kB active_anon:952176kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:36kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:88kB present:1032192kB managed:1019388kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:13532kB slab_unreclaimable:16460kB kernel_stack:3552kB pagetables:6672kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:56kB local_pcp:24kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 959 Movable free:3644kB min:1980kB low:2960kB high:3940kB active_anon:738560kB inactive_anon:261340kB active_file:188kB inactive_file:640kB unevictable:0kB writepending:20kB present:1048444kB managed:1010816kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:832kB local_pcp:60kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 1*4kB (E) 0*8kB 18*16kB (E) 10*32kB (E) 10*64kB (E) 9*128kB (ME) 8*256kB (E) 2*512kB (E) 2*1024kB (E) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7524kB DMA32: 417*4kB (UMEH) 181*8kB (UMEH) 68*16kB (UMEH) 48*32kB (UMEH) 14*64kB (MH) 3*128kB (M) 1*256kB (H) 1*512kB (M) 2*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 9836kB Movable: 1*4kB (M) 1*8kB (M) 1*16kB (M) 1*32kB (M) 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (M) 4*512kB (M) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3772kB 378 total pagecache pages 17 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 17325, delete 17302, find 0/27 Free swap = 978940kB Total swap = 1048572kB 524157 pages RAM 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly 12629 pages reserved 0 pages cma reserved 0 pages hwpoisoned [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes nr_pmds swapents oom_score_adj name [ 433] 0 433 4904 5 14 3 82 0 upstart-udev-br [ 438] 0 438 12371 5 27 3 191 -1000 systemd-udevd With investigation, skipping page of isolate_lru_pages makes reclaim void because it returns zero nr_taken easily so LRU shrinking is effectively nothing and just increases priority aggressively. Finally, OOM happens. The problem is that get_scan_count determines nr_to_scan with eligible zones so although priority drops to zero, it couldn't reclaim any pages if the LRU contains mostly ineligible pages. get_scan_count: size = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, lru, sc->reclaim_idx); size = size >> sc->priority; Assumes sc->priority is 0 and LRU list is as follows. N-N-N-N-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H (Ie, small eligible pages are in the head of LRU but others are almost ineligible pages) In that case, size becomes 4 so VM want to scan 4 pages but 4 pages from tail of the LRU are not eligible pages. If get_scan_count counts skipped pages, it doesn't reclaim any pages remained after scanning 4 pages so it ends up OOM happening. This patch makes isolate_lru_pages try to scan pages until it encounters eligible zones's pages. Fixes: 3db65812d688 ("Revert "mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan"") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494457232-27401-1-git-send-email-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ static __always_inline void update_lru_s * * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function. * - * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list. + * @nr_to_scan: The number of eligible pages to look through on the list. * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from. * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to. * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned. @@ -1469,11 +1469,13 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u unsigned long nr_zone_taken[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0 }; unsigned long nr_skipped[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, }; unsigned long skipped = 0; - unsigned long scan, nr_pages; + unsigned long scan, total_scan, nr_pages; LIST_HEAD(pages_skipped); - for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && nr_taken < nr_to_scan && - !list_empty(src); scan++) { + for (total_scan = scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && + nr_taken < nr_to_scan && + !list_empty(src); + total_scan++) { struct page *page; page = lru_to_page(src); @@ -1487,6 +1489,13 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u continue; } + /* + * Do not count skipped pages because it makes the function to + * return with none isolated pages if the LRU mostly contains + * ineligible pages so that VM cannot reclaim any pages and + * trigger premature OOM. + */ + scan++; switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) { case 0: nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page); @@ -1524,9 +1533,9 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u skipped += nr_skipped[zid]; } } - *nr_scanned = scan; + *nr_scanned = total_scan; trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->reclaim_idx, sc->order, nr_to_scan, - scan, skipped, nr_taken, mode, lru); + total_scan, skipped, nr_taken, mode, lru); update_lru_sizes(lruvec, lru, nr_zone_taken); return nr_taken; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-vmscan-scan-until-it-founds-eligible-pages.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html