The patch titled Subject: mm: ratelimit PFNs busy info message has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message.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: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: ratelimit PFNs busy info message The RDMA subsystem can generate several thousand of these messages per second eventually leading to a kernel crash. Ratelimit these messages to prevent this crash. Doug said: : I've been carrying a version of this for several kernel versions. I don't : remember when they started, but we have one (and only one) class of : machines: Dell PE R730xd, that generate these errors. When it happens, : without a rate limit, we get rcu timeouts and kernel oopses. With the : rate limit, we just get a lot of annoying kernel messages but the machine : continues on, recovers, and eventually the memory operations all succeed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/499c0f6cc10d6eb829a67f2a4d75b4228a9b356e.1501695897.git.jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7669,7 +7669,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long sta /* Make sure the range is really isolated. */ if (test_pages_isolated(outer_start, end, false)) { - pr_info("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n", + pr_info_ratelimited("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n", __func__, outer_start, end); ret = -EBUSY; goto done; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-ratelimit-pfns-busy-info-message.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