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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"riel@redhat.com" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"elladan@eskimo.com" <elladan@eskimo.com>,
	"npiggin@suse.de" <npiggin@suse.de>,
	"minchan.kim@gmail.com" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:53:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090627115306.GA1741@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624114055.225D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43:21AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:43:57PM +0800, David Howells wrote:
> > > Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > David, could you try running this when it occurred again?
> > > > 
> > > >         make Documentation/vm/page-types
> > > >         Documentation/vm/page-types --raw  # run as root
> > > 
> > > Okay.  I managed to catch it between the first and second OOMs, and ran the
> > > command you asked for.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > > 0x0000000000000000	    142261      555  ________________________________	
> > > 0x0000000000000400	      6797       26  __________B_____________________	buddy
> > 
> > The buddy+free numbers are pretty high. 26MB PG_buddy pages means much
> > more actual free pages. So I bet the 555MB no-flag pages are mostly free pages.
> 
> You mean our VM can make OOM although it have 600MB free pages?

No, it has 600MB free pages after an OOM - which only means that the
OOM killer did a good job ;-)

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"riel@redhat.com" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"elladan@eskimo.com" <elladan@eskimo.com>,
	"npiggin@suse.de" <npiggin@suse.de>,
	"minchan.kim@gmail.com" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:53:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090627115306.GA1741@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624114055.225D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43:21AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:43:57PM +0800, David Howells wrote:
> > > Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > David, could you try running this when it occurred again?
> > > > 
> > > >         make Documentation/vm/page-types
> > > >         Documentation/vm/page-types --raw  # run as root
> > > 
> > > Okay.  I managed to catch it between the first and second OOMs, and ran the
> > > command you asked for.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > > 0x0000000000000000	    142261      555  ________________________________	
> > > 0x0000000000000400	      6797       26  __________B_____________________	buddy
> > 
> > The buddy+free numbers are pretty high. 26MB PG_buddy pages means much
> > more actual free pages. So I bet the 555MB no-flag pages are mostly free pages.
> 
> You mean our VM can make OOM although it have 600MB free pages?

No, it has 600MB free pages after an OOM - which only means that the
OOM killer did a good job ;-)

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Thread overview: 205+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-17  2:23 [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] vmscan: report vm_flags in page_referenced() Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19  8:59   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19  8:59     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: merge duplicate code in shrink_active_list() Wu Fengguang
2009-05-17  2:23   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-18  9:16   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-18  9:16     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19  2:43     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19  2:43       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19 10:18       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-19 10:18         ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-19 10:32         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-19 10:32           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-18 14:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen David Howells
2009-06-18 14:46   ` David Howells
2009-06-18 14:51   ` David Howells
2009-06-18 14:51     ` David Howells
2009-06-18 16:18   ` David Howells
2009-06-18 16:18     ` David Howells
2009-06-18 16:57     ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-18 16:57       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-20  4:33       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-20  4:33         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-20  8:24         ` David Howells
2009-06-20  8:24           ` David Howells
2009-06-23 14:43         ` David Howells
2009-06-23 14:43           ` David Howells
2009-06-24  1:43           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-24  1:43             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-24  2:32           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-24  2:32             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-24  2:43             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-24  2:43               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-24  2:49               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-24  2:49                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-27 11:53               ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2009-06-27 11:53                 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-27 18:40                 ` David Howells
2009-06-27 18:40                   ` David Howells
2009-06-24 13:07             ` David Howells
2009-06-24 13:07               ` David Howells
2009-06-27  7:12               ` Found the commit that causes the OOMs David Howells
2009-06-27  7:12                 ` David Howells
2009-06-27 12:07                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-27 12:07                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-27 18:58                   ` David Howells
2009-06-27 18:58                     ` David Howells
2009-06-27 12:54                 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-27 12:54                   ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-27 13:50                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-27 13:50                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-27 15:36                     ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-27 15:36                       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-28 16:53                       ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 16:53                         ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-27 15:52                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-27 15:52                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-27 18:35                   ` David Howells
2009-06-27 18:35                     ` David Howells
2009-06-28  7:55                   ` David Howells
2009-06-28  7:55                     ` David Howells
2009-06-28 11:32                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 11:32                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 13:30                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 13:30                       ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 13:36                       ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 13:36                         ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 14:22                         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 14:22                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 15:01                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-28 15:01                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-28 15:10                             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 15:10                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 16:50                               ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 16:50                                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29  0:17                               ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29  0:17                                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29  7:34                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29  7:34                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 10:10                                   ` David Howells
2009-06-29 10:10                                     ` David Howells
2009-06-29 12:55                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 12:55                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 14:21                                       ` David Howells
2009-06-29 14:21                                         ` David Howells
2009-06-29 15:00                                         ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29 15:00                                           ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29 15:14                                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 15:14                                             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 15:54                                             ` David Howells
2009-06-29 15:54                                               ` David Howells
2009-06-29 15:56                                               ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-29 15:56                                                 ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-30 14:05                                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-30 14:05                                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-30 15:50                                                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30 15:50                                                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-01  2:30                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  2:30                                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  1:18                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  1:18                                                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  2:13                                                     ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-01  2:13                                                       ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-01  2:16                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  2:16                                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  2:26                                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  2:26                                                         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  2:51                                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  2:51                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  2:57                                                           ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-01  2:57                                                             ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-01  4:06                                                             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  4:06                                                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  4:18                                                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  4:18                                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  4:25                                                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  4:25                                                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  4:30                                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01  4:30                                                                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-01 11:27                                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01 11:27                                                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-05  9:55                                                             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-05  9:55                                                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-05 10:38                                                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-05 10:38                                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-05 10:51                                                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-05 10:51                                                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  3:54                                                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-01  3:54                                                             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 15:27                                           ` David Howells
2009-06-29 15:27                                             ` David Howells
2009-06-29 16:07                                           ` Mel Gorman
2009-06-29 16:07                                             ` Mel Gorman
2009-06-30  4:07                                             ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30  4:07                                               ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30  9:22                                               ` Mel Gorman
2009-06-30  9:22                                                 ` Mel Gorman
2009-06-30  9:30                                                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30  9:30                                                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30 14:00                                                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30 14:00                                                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-30 19:57                                               ` David Howells
2009-06-30 19:57                                                 ` David Howells
2009-07-02  7:41                                                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-02  7:41                                                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-02  7:44                                                   ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-02  7:44                                                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-02 12:43                                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-02 12:43                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-02 14:08                                                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-07-02 14:08                                                       ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 14:49                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-28 14:49                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-28 15:04                         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 15:04                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-28 16:47                         ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-28 16:47                           ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29  7:48                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-29  7:48                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-29  9:32                             ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29  9:32                               ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-29 12:43                             ` David Howells
2009-06-29 12:43                               ` David Howells
2009-06-29 12:59                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 12:59                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-29 16:57                               ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-29 16:57                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-29 18:54                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-29 18:54                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-29 19:08                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-29 19:08                                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-19  5:27     ` [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  5:27       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  5:24   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  5:24     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  5:58   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  5:58     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  8:06     ` David Howells
2009-06-19  8:06       ` David Howells
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-16  9:00 Wu Fengguang
2009-05-16  9:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-16 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-17 21:11   ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-17 21:37     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-18  1:25     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-18  1:25       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-18 16:33       ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-18 16:33         ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-19  9:00       ` Wu, Fengguang
2009-06-19  9:00         ` Wu, Fengguang
2009-06-19  9:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-19  9:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-19  9:32           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19  9:32             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-19 16:43             ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-19 16:43               ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-04  1:27               ` Roger WANG
2009-07-04  1:27                 ` Roger WANG
2009-07-06 17:38                 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-06 17:38                   ` Jesse Barnes

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