linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rc5-mm1 1/3] mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms

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Message-ID: <47D78863.101@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:08:11 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rc5-mm1 1/3] mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Memcgroups up against their limit were OOMing unjustifiably on x86_32
> with highmem: pages ripe for freeing were not being found.
> 
> It's because the zonelist changes in vmscan.c now derive zone from gfp_mask,
> and the gfp mask being passed into try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages is atuned
> to allocating a struct page_cgroup (__GFP_HIGHMEM masked off), whereas here
> we need to be scanning highmem zones.
> 

Very good catch. I see a high_zoneidx field being derived from gfp_mask -mm.
I've been looking at mainline code too often.


-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL

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