From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [oom]: [0/4] fix OOM deadlock running OAST
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:16:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623151659.70333c6d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0406231407.HbLbJbXaHbKbWa5aJb1a4aKb0a3aKb1a0a2aMbMbYa3aLbMb3aJbWaJbXaMbLb1a342@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> While running OAST to test 2.6's maximum client capacity, the kernel
> deadlocked instead of properly OOM'ing. The obvious cause was the
> line if (nr_swap_pages > 0) in out_of_memory(), which fails to account
> for pinned allocations. This can't simply be removed.
It all seems like rather a lot of fuss.
It should be the case that zone->all_unreclaimable is set by the time this
happens. Did you consider feeding that into the oom-killing decision
instead?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 21:07 [oom]: [0/4] fix OOM deadlock running OAST William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 21:07 ` [oom]: [1/4] add __GFP_WIRED to pinned allocations William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 21:07 ` [oom]: [2/4] add nr_wired to page_state William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 21:07 ` [oom]: [3/4] track wired pages on a per-zone basis William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 21:07 ` [oom]: [4/4] check __GFP_WIRED in out_of_memory() William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 21:29 ` [oom]: [3/4] track wired pages on a per-zone basis William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 22:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 22:05 ` [oom]: [1/4] add __GFP_WIRED to pinned allocations Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 22:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 22:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-23 22:31 ` [oom]: [0/4] fix OOM deadlock running OAST William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 23:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-23 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-24 0:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-24 0:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 0:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-24 1:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 1:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 2:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-24 2:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 14:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-24 15:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 15:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 15:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 16:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-25 15:18 ` Rik van Riel
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