On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:36:15PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:46:14PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > > And another one, please see the files marked with 15- here: > > > > https://trent.utfs.org/p/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/trace/ > > > > I tried to have more concise timestamps in each of these files, hope that > > helps. Sadly though, trace-cmd reports still segfaults on the tracefile. > > Ok, that will be helpful. Also helpful is that I've (FINALLY!) > reproduced this myself, and i think i can now reproduce it at will > on a highmem i686 machine. I'll look into it more later tonight.... And here's a patch for you to try. It fixes the problem on my test machine..... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx xfs: ensure reclaim cursor is reset correctly at end of AG From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> On a 32 bit highmem PowerPC machine, the XFS inode cache was growing without bound and exhausting low memory causing the OOM killer to be triggered. After some effort, the problem was reproduced on a 32 bit x86 highmem machine. The problem is that the per-ag inode reclaim index cursor was not getting reset to the start of the AG if the radix tree tag lookup found no more reclaimable inodes. Hence every further reclaim attempt started at the same index beyond where any reclaimable inodes lay, and no further background reclaim ever occurred from the AG. Without background inode reclaim the VM driven cache shrinker simply cannot keep up with cache growth, and OOM is the result. While the change that exposed the problem was the conversion of the inode reclaim to use work queues for background reclaim, it was not the cause of the bug. The bug was introduced when the cursor code was added, just waiting for some weird configuration to strike.... Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c index 3253572..4e1f23a 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c @@ -936,6 +936,7 @@ restart: XFS_LOOKUP_BATCH, XFS_ICI_RECLAIM_TAG); if (!nr_found) { + done = 1; rcu_read_unlock(); break; } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
