linux-kernel - Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB

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Message-Id: <200709290619.33918.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:19:33 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK

On Saturday 29 September 2007 19:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:14:02 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> 
wrote:
> > > oom-killings, or page allocation failures?  The latter, one hopes.
> >
> > Linux version 2.6.23-rc4-mm1-dirty (root@...d) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu
> > 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #27 Tue Sep 18 15:40:35 CEST 2007
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> > mm_tester invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x40d0, order=2, oomkilladj=0
> > Call Trace:
> > 611b3878:  [<6002dd28>] printk_ratelimit+0x15/0x17
> > 611b3888:  [<60052ed4>] out_of_memory+0x80/0x100
> > 611b38c8:  [<60054b0c>] __alloc_pages+0x1ed/0x280
> > 611b3948:  [<6006c608>] allocate_slab+0x5b/0xb0
> > 611b3968:  [<6006c705>] new_slab+0x7e/0x183
> > 611b39a8:  [<6006cbae>] __slab_alloc+0xc9/0x14b
> > 611b39b0:  [<6011f89f>] radix_tree_preload+0x70/0xbf
> > 611b39b8:  [<600980f2>] do_mpage_readpage+0x3b3/0x472
> > 611b39e0:  [<6011f89f>] radix_tree_preload+0x70/0xbf
> > 611b39f8:  [<6006cc81>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x51/0x98
> > 611b3a38:  [<6011f89f>] radix_tree_preload+0x70/0xbf
> > 611b3a58:  [<6004f8e2>] add_to_page_cache+0x22/0xf7
> > 611b3a98:  [<6004f9c6>] add_to_page_cache_lru+0xf/0x24
> > 611b3ab8:  [<6009821e>] mpage_readpages+0x6d/0x109
> > 611b3ac0:  [<600d59f0>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0xf2
> > 611b3b08:  [<6005483d>] get_page_from_freelist+0x8d/0xc1
> > 611b3b88:  [<600d6937>] ext3_readpages+0x18/0x1a
> > 611b3b98:  [<60056f00>] read_pages+0x37/0x9b
> > 611b3bd8:  [<60057064>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x100/0x157
> > 611b3c48:  [<60057196>] do_page_cache_readahead+0x52/0x5f
> > 611b3c78:  [<60050ab4>] filemap_fault+0x145/0x278
> > 611b3ca8:  [<60022b61>] run_syscall_stub+0xd1/0xdd
> > 611b3ce8:  [<6005eae3>] __do_fault+0x7e/0x3ca
> > 611b3d68:  [<6005ee60>] do_linear_fault+0x31/0x33
> > 611b3d88:  [<6005f149>] handle_mm_fault+0x14e/0x246
> > 611b3da8:  [<60120a7b>] __up_read+0x73/0x7b
> > 611b3de8:  [<60013177>] handle_page_fault+0x11f/0x23b
> > 611b3e48:  [<60013419>] segv+0xac/0x297
> > 611b3f28:  [<60013367>] segv_handler+0x68/0x6e
> > 611b3f48:  [<600232ad>] get_skas_faultinfo+0x9c/0xa1
> > 611b3f68:  [<60023853>] userspace+0x13a/0x19d
> > 611b3fc8:  [<60010d58>] fork_handler+0x86/0x8d
>
> OK, that's different.  Someone broke the vm - order-2 GFP_KERNEL
> allocations aren't supposed to fail.
>
> I'm suspecting that did_some_progress thing.

The allocation didn't fail -- it invoked the OOM killer because the kernel
ran out of unfragmented memory. Probably because higher order
allocations are the new vogue in -mm at the moment ;)
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