This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-oom-prevent-premature-oom-killer-invocation-for-high-order-request.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:14:41 -0700 Subject: mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> commit 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f upstream. There have been several reports about pre-mature OOM killer invocation in 4.7 kernel when order-2 allocation request (for the kernel stack) invoked OOM killer even during basic workloads (light IO or even kernel compile on some filesystems). In all reported cases the memory is fragmented and there are no order-2+ pages available. There is usually a large amount of slab memory (usually dentries/inodes) and further debugging has shown that there are way too many unmovable blocks which are skipped during the compaction. Multiple reporters have confirmed that the current linux-next which includes [1] and [2] helped and OOMs are not reproducible anymore. A simpler fix for the late rc and stable is to simply ignore the compaction feedback and retry as long as there is a reclaim progress and we are not getting OOM for order-0 pages. We already do that for CONFING_COMPACTION=n so let's reuse the same code when compaction is enabled as well. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-1-vbabka@xxxxxxx [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7a9ea9d-bb88-bfd6-e340-3a933559305a@xxxxxxx Fixes: 0a0337e0d1d1 ("mm, oom: rework oom detection") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823074339.GB23577@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 50 ++------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3254,53 +3254,6 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_m return NULL; } -static inline bool -should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags, - enum compact_result compact_result, enum migrate_mode *migrate_mode, - int compaction_retries) -{ - int max_retries = MAX_COMPACT_RETRIES; - - if (!order) - return false; - - /* - * compaction considers all the zone as desperately out of memory - * so it doesn't really make much sense to retry except when the - * failure could be caused by weak migration mode. - */ - if (compaction_failed(compact_result)) { - if (*migrate_mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC) { - *migrate_mode = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT; - return true; - } - return false; - } - - /* - * make sure the compaction wasn't deferred or didn't bail out early - * due to locks contention before we declare that we should give up. - * But do not retry if the given zonelist is not suitable for - * compaction. - */ - if (compaction_withdrawn(compact_result)) - return compaction_zonelist_suitable(ac, order, alloc_flags); - - /* - * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_REPEAT - * costly ones because they are de facto nofail and invoke OOM - * killer to move on while costly can fail and users are ready - * to cope with that. 1/4 retries is rather arbitrary but we - * would need much more detailed feedback from compaction to - * make a better decision. - */ - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) - max_retries /= 4; - if (compaction_retries <= max_retries) - return true; - - return false; -} #else static inline struct page * __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, @@ -3311,6 +3264,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_m return NULL; } +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */ + static inline bool should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, enum compact_result compact_result, @@ -3337,7 +3292,6 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_contex } return false; } -#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */ /* Perform direct synchronous page reclaim */ static int Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/mm-oom-prevent-premature-oom-killer-invocation-for-high-order-request.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html