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Message-ID: <20190128091627.GA27972@quack2.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:16:27 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: valdis.kletnieks@...edu
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, vbabka@...e.cz,
aarcange@...hat.com, rientjes@...gle.com, mhocko@...nel.org,
zi.yan@...rutgers.edu, hannes@...xchg.org, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [regression -next0117] What is kcompactd and why is he eating
100% of my cpu?
On Sun 27-01-19 16:36:34, valdis.kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:00:27 +0100, Pavel Machek said:
> > > > I've noticed this as well on earlier kernels (next-20181224 to 20190115)
> > > > Some more info:
> > > > 1) echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches unwedges kcompactd in 1-3 seconds.
> > > This aspect is curious as it indicates that kcompactd could potentially
> > > be infinite looping but it's not something I've experienced myself. By
> > > any chance is there a preditable reproduction case for this?
> >
> > I seen it exactly once, so not sure how reproducible this is. x86-32
> > machine, running chromium browser, so yes, there was some swapping
> > involved.
>
> I don't have a surefire replicator, but my laptop (x86_64, so it's not a 32-bit
> only issue) triggers it fairly often, up to multiple times a day. Doesn't seem to
> be just the Chrome browser that triggers it - usually I'm doing other stuff as
> well, like a compile or similar. The fact that 'drop_caches' clears it makes me
> wonder if we're hitting a corner case where cache data isn't being automatically
> cleared and clogging something up.
So my buffer_migrate_page_norefs() is certainly buggy in its current
incarnation (as a result block device page cache is not migratable at all).
I've sent Andrew a patch over week ago but so far it got ignored. The patch
is attached, can you give it a try whether it changes something for you?
Thanks!
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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