linux-kernel - Re: mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:08:28 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, davej@...hat.com,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory

On 12-06-12 06:58 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> Adding Ben Hutchings to CC: as he seems to have looked into this before.
> 
>> On 12-06-12 06:44 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> I've been seeing these messages on my AMD Fusion server
>>> running linux-3.3.7-64bit.  Does this ring any bells for anyone else?
>>> The system is NOT low on memory.
>>>
>>> I'm building/installing 3.4.2 now to see if it behaves any better.
>>>
>>> [962841.265658] mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0
>>> [962841.265674] Pid: 32116, comm: mount.nfs Not tainted 3.3.7 #2
>>> [962841.265680] Call Trace:
>>> [962841.265700]  [<ffffffff81079363>] ? warn_alloc_failed+0x11a/0x12d
>>> [962841.265713]  [<ffffffff8107b904>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6c0/0x702
>>> [962841.265725]  [<ffffffff8114fcb8>] ? timerqueue_del+0x53/0x63
>>> [962841.265758]  [<ffffffff8107b9ba>] ? __get_free_pages+0x10/0x3f
>>> [962841.265805]  [<ffffffffa01ea33d>] ? nfs_idmap_new+0x28/0xde [nfs]
>>> [962841.265836]  [<ffffffffa01c79c9>] ? nfs4_init_client+0x74/0x12a [nfs]
...
>> Looks like an old bug, perhaps:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593035
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728003
>>
>> I wonder what the underlying cause is?
>> And I also wonder if the NFS code should be more clever
>> about handing order-4 allocation failures.
> 
> More references:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg71281.html
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1004619
> http://codemonkey.org.uk/2012/02/17/fedora-16-kernel-bugzilla-status-report-20120210-20120217/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/73

Ahh.. this one seems to explain it, kind of:
   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/41686

So in 3.3.7, I didn't have CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER enabled,
and the kernel seems to be buggy without that.

In 3.4.2, that option has disappeared entirely,
most likely because it is now the default behaviour.  Right?

Thanks.
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