linux-kernel - Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs

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Message-Id: <20090629095729.cc9f183c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:57:29 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"riel@...hat.com" <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"elladan@...imo.com" <elladan@...imo.com>,
	"npiggin@...e.de" <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:43:55 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > David, Can you please try to following patch? it was posted to LKML
> > about 1-2 week ago.
> > 
> > Subject "[BUGFIX][PATCH] fix lumpy reclaim lru handiling at
> > isolate_lru_pages v2"
> 
> It is already committed, but I ran a test on the latest Linus kernel anyway:
> 
> msgctl11 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
> msgctl11 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
> Pid: 20366, comm: msgctl11 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-cachefs #144
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff810718d2>] ? oom_kill_process.clone.0+0xa9/0x245
>  [<ffffffff81071b99>] ? __out_of_memory+0x12b/0x142
>  [<ffffffff81071c1a>] ? out_of_memory+0x6a/0x94
>  [<ffffffff810742e4>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x42e/0x51d
>  [<ffffffff81031416>] ? copy_process+0x95/0x114f
>  [<ffffffff8107443c>] ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x4f
>  [<ffffffff81031439>] ? copy_process+0xb8/0x114f
>  [<ffffffff8108192e>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x5dd/0x62f
>  [<ffffffff8103260f>] ? do_fork+0x13f/0x2ba
>  [<ffffffff81022c22>] ? do_page_fault+0x1f8/0x20d
>  [<ffffffff8100b0d3>] ? stub_clone+0x13/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8100ad6b>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> Mem-Info:
> DMA per-cpu:
> CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> DMA32 per-cpu:
> CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 159
> CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   2
> Active_anon:70477 active_file:1 inactive_anon:4514
>  inactive_file:7 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
>  free:1954 slab:42078 mapped:237 pagetables:57791 bounce:0

~170k pages unreclaimable and ~70k pages unaccounted for.

This does not look like a reclaim problem?

> DMA free:3932kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active_anon:236kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:4kB unevictable:0kB present:15364kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 968 968 968
> DMA32 free:3884kB min:3948kB low:4932kB high:5920kB active_anon:281672kB inactive_anon:18056kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:24kB unevictable:0kB present:992032kB pages_scanned:6 all_unreclaimable? no
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> DMA: 180*4kB 36*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3936kB
> DMA32: 491*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3884kB
> 1808 total pagecache pages
> 0 pages in swap cache
> Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
> Free swap  = 0kB
> Total swap = 0kB
> 255744 pages RAM
> 5589 pages reserved
> 249340 pages shared
> 219039 pages non-shared
> Out of memory: kill process 11471 (msgctl11) score 112393 or a child
> Killed process 12318 (msgctl11)

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