linux-kernel - Re: Page allocation failures in guest

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:52:53 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Page allocation failures in guest

On 08/11/2009 09:32 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:59:52 +0900
> Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@...il.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Pierre Ossman<drzeus-list@...eus.cx>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: Active_anon:14065 active_file:87384 inactive_anon:37480
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: inactive_file:95821 unevictable:4 dirty:8 writeback:0 unstable:0
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: free:1344 slab:7113 mapped:4283 pagetables:5656 bounce:0
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: Node 0 DMA free:3988kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:3532kB inactive_file:1032kB unevictable:0kB present:6840kB pages_scanned:0 all_un
>>>        
>> I don't know why present is bigger than free + [in]active anon ?
>> Who know this ?
>>
>> There are 258 pages in inactive file.
>> Unfortunately, it seems we don't have any discardable pages.
>> The reclaimer can't sync dirty pages to reclaim them, too.
>> That's because we are going on GFP_ATOMIC as I mentioned.
>>
>>      
>
> Any ideas here? Is the virtio net driver very GFP_ATOMIC happy so it
> drains all those pages? And why is this triggered by a kernel upgrade
> in the host?
>
> Avi?
>
>    

Rusty?

>>> reclaimable? no
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 994 994 994
>>> Jul 12 23:04:54 loki kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:1388kB min:4020kB low:5024kB high:6028kB active_anon:56260kB inactive_anon:149920kB active_file:346004kB inactive_file:382252kB unevictable:16kB present:1018016
>>>        
>> free : 1388KB min : 4020KB. In addtion, now GFP_HIGH. so calculation
>> is as follow for zone_watermark_ok.
>>
>> 1388<  (4020 / 2)
>>
>> So failed it in zone_watermark_ok.
>> AFAIU, it's fairy OOM problem.
>>
>>      
>
> I doesn't get out of it though, or at least the virtio net driver
> wedges itself.
>
> Rgds
>    


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