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Message-ID: <2375c9f91001272051x3d2e89r24133c42f52082ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:02 +0800 From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel error : 'find /proc/ -type f | xargs -n 1 head -c 10 >/dev/null' 2010/1/22 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>: > I was inspired by http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/941115 . > > Running the command (se subject) as a normal user at a 2.6.32.4 kernel > gives this in /var/log/messages: > > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: head: page allocation failure. order:9, mode:0xd0 Hmm, it is suspecious that we need 2^9 pages for seq_file... > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: Pid: 2324, comm: head Not tainted 2.6.32.4 #1 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: Call Trace: > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c106e2cc>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4bc/0x5a0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c108cf5a>] ? cache_alloc_refill+0x2ba/0x510 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c108d299>] ? __kmalloc+0xe9/0xf0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c10aa755>] ? seq_read+0x195/0x370 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c10aa5c0>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x370 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c10cbb6f>] ? proc_reg_read+0x5f/0x90 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c10cbb10>] ? proc_reg_read+0x0/0x90 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c10927c5>] ? vfs_read+0xa5/0x190 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c1092981>] ? sys_read+0x41/0x80 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: [<c100300f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: Mem-Info: > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.171+01:00 n22 kernel: DMA per-cpu: > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Normal per-cpu: > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: HighMem per-cpu: > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: active_anon:77374 inactive_anon:26716 isolated_anon:0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: active_file:154367 inactive_file:77664 isolated_file:0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: unevictable:0 dirty:74 writeback:432 unstable:0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: free:107209 slab_reclaimable:41314 slab_unreclaimable:3995 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: mapped:23759 shmem:19312 pagetables:882 bounce:0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: DMA free:12296kB min:64kB low:80kB high:96kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:772kB inactive_file:372kB unevictable:0kB > isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15864kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:2520kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB > unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 865 1911 1911 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Normal free:282076kB min:3728kB low:4660kB high:5592kB active_anon:8kB inactive_anon:3320kB active_file:279600kB inactive_file:121612kB > unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:885944kB mlocked:0kB dirty:140kB writeback:0kB mapped:276kB shmem:16kB slab_reclaimable:162736kB slab_unreclaimable:15980kB > kernel_stack:900kB pagetables:3528kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 8369 8369 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: HighMem free:134464kB min:512kB low:1636kB high:2764kB active_anon:309488kB inactive_anon:103544kB active_file:337096kB > inactive_file:188672kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:1071256kB mlocked:0kB dirty:156kB writeback:1728kB mapped:94760kB shmem:77232kB slab_reclaimable:0kB > slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: DMA: 288*4kB 121*8kB 80*16kB 62*32kB 48*64kB 22*128kB 4*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 12296kB > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Normal: 19101*4kB 8755*8kB 3545*16kB 1846*32kB 186*64kB 34*128kB 2*256kB 2*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 282076kB Obviously you have one 2^9-page chuck here, but page allocator doesn't give this. > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: HighMem: 304*4kB 260*8kB 1594*16kB 1644*32kB 571*64kB 89*128kB 18*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 134464kB > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 251864 total pagecache pages > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 505 pages in swap cache > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Swap cache stats: add 587, delete 82, find 189/195 > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Free swap = 2001148kB > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: Total swap = 2003360kB > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 498176 pages RAM > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 270850 pages HighMem > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 5979 pages reserved > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 251238 pages shared > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.172+01:00 n22 kernel: 209073 pages non-shared > 2010-01-21T20:11:39.480+01:00 n22 kernel: ACPI: Please implement acpi_video_bus_ROM_seq_show > For me, this seems to be either a problem of mm page allocator or a problem of seq_file, the former seems to be more likely since we already got some other page allocation failure report... 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