linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:33:03 +0200
From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:     mhocko@...nel.org, hannes@...xchg.org, riel@...hat.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...e.de, vbabka@...e.cz,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:06:32PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:24:21PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > On 2017/03/10 20:44, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > >> I am definitely not against. There is no reason to rush the patch in.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't hurry if we can check using watchdog whether this problem is occurring
> > > > in the real world. I have to test corner cases because watchdog is missing.
> > > > 
> > > Ping?
> > > 
> > > This problem can occur even immediately after the first invocation of
> > > the OOM killer. I believe this problem can occur in the real world.
> > > When are we going to apply this patch or watchdog patch?
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------
> > > [    0.000000] Linux version 4.11.0-rc7-next-20170421+ (root@...ecurity) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11) (GCC) ) #588 SMP Sun Apr 23 17:38:02 JST 2017
> > > [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-rc7-next-20170421+ root=UUID=17c3c28f-a70a-4666-95fa-ecf6acd901e4 ro vconsole.keymap=jp106 crashkernel=256M vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 security=none sysrq_always_enabled console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 debug_guardpage_minorder=1
> > 
> > Are you debugging memory corruption problem?
> 
> No. Just a random testing trying to find how we can avoid flooding of
> warn_alloc_stall() warning messages while also avoiding ratelimiting.

This is not right way to stress mm subsystem, debug_guardpage_minorder= 
option is for _debug_ purpose. Use mem= instead if you want to limit
available memory.

> > FWIW, if you use debug_guardpage_minorder= you can expect any
> > allocation memory problems. This option is intended to debug
> > memory corruption bugs and it shrinks available memory in 
> > artificial way. Taking that, I don't think justifying any
> > patch, by problem happened when debug_guardpage_minorder= is 
> > used, is reasonable.
> >  
> > Stanislaw
> 
> This problem occurs without debug_guardpage_minorder= parameter and

So please justify your patches by that.

Thanks
Stanislaw