2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andrew Barry <aba...@cray.com>
commit cfa54a0fcfc1017c6f122b6f21aaba36daa07f71 upstream.
I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a
process to get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is
available.
Running an I/O and memory intensive stress-test I see a 0-order page
allocation with __GFP_IO and __GFP_WAIT, running on a system with very
little free memory. Right about the same time that the stress-test gets
killed by the OOM-killer, the utility trying to allocate memory gets stuck
in __alloc_pages_slowpath even though most of the systems memory was freed
by the oom-kill of the stress-test.
The utility ends up looping from the rebalance label down through the
wait_iff_congested continiously. Because order=0,
__alloc_pages_direct_compact skips the call to get_page_from_freelist.
Because all of the reclaimable memory on the system has already been
reclaimed, __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim skips the call to
get_page_from_freelist. Since there is no __GFP_FS flag, the block with
__alloc_pages_may_oom is skipped. The loop hits the wait_iff_congested,
then jumps back to rebalance without ever trying to
get_page_from_freelist. This loop repeats infinitely.
The test case is pretty pathological. Running a mix of I/O stress-tests
that do a lot of fork() and consume all of the system memory, I can pretty
reliably hit this on 600 nodes, in about 12 hours. 32GB/node.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry <aba...@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<r...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.35.y/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2027,6 +2027,7 @@ restart:
*/
alloc_flags = gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_mask);
+rebalance:
/* This is the last chance, in general, before the goto nopage. */
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order, zonelist,
high_zoneidx, alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS,
@@ -2034,7 +2035,6 @@ restart:
if (page)
goto got_pg;
-rebalance:
/* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order,
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