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From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:03:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130503030345.GE4441@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013e65cb32b3-047cd2d6-dfc8-41d2-a792-9b398f9a1baf-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:10:15PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:
> 
> > Looks like "ibmvscsi" + "slub" can trigger this problem.
> 
> And the next merge of the slab-next tree will also cause SLAB to trigger
> this issue. I would like to have this fixes. The slab allocator purpose is
> to servr objects that are a fraction of a page and not objects that are
> larger than the maximum allowed sizes of the page allocator.

So the problem is in memory management code, not in ibmvscis? And looks
like there is a fix already?

Thanks.

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From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:03:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130503030345.GE4441@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013e65cb32b3-047cd2d6-dfc8-41d2-a792-9b398f9a1baf-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:10:15PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:
> 
> > Looks like "ibmvscsi" + "slub" can trigger this problem.
> 
> And the next merge of the slab-next tree will also cause SLAB to trigger
> this issue. I would like to have this fixes. The slab allocator purpose is
> to servr objects that are a fraction of a page and not objects that are
> larger than the maximum allowed sizes of the page allocator.

So the problem is in memory management code, not in ibmvscis? And looks
like there is a fix already?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-16 11:00 OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7 Han Pingtian
2013-04-16 20:16 ` David Rientjes
2013-04-17  8:46   ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-21  0:49     ` Jiri Kosina
2013-04-22  3:15       ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-17  9:47   ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-17 14:19     ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-18 10:15       ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-18 14:17         ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-18 16:55           ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-18 17:55             ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-19  2:33               ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-19 16:43                 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-22  3:18                   ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-22 11:40                     ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-23  4:22                       ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-23 13:15                         ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-24  4:48                           ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-24  9:47                             ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-24  9:47                               ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-24 15:36                               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-24 15:36                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-25  6:07                                 ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-25 17:17                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-25 17:17                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-27  8:20                                     ` Will Huck
2013-04-27  8:20                                       ` Will Huck
2013-04-29 14:49                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-29 14:49                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-01  3:13                                         ` Will Huck
2013-05-01  3:13                                           ` Will Huck
2013-05-02 15:10                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-02 15:10                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-09 13:17                                             ` Will Huck
2013-05-09 14:00                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-10  0:42                                                 ` Will Huck
2013-05-10 16:00                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-25 18:24                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-25 18:24                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-26  6:24                                     ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-26  6:24                                       ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-26 14:42                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-26 14:42                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-27 11:24                                         ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-27 11:24                                           ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-29 14:50                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-29 14:50                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-29 14:57                                             ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-29 14:57                                               ` Michal Hocko
2013-05-02 10:56                                               ` Han Pingtian
2013-05-02 10:56                                                 ` Han Pingtian
2013-05-02 15:10                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-02 15:10                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-03  3:03                                                   ` Han Pingtian [this message]
2013-05-03  3:03                                                     ` Han Pingtian
2013-05-03 15:25                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-03 15:25                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-03 15:34                                                       ` Michal Hocko
2013-05-03 15:34                                                         ` Michal Hocko
2013-05-03 16:16                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-05-03 16:16                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-27 10:39                                                           ` Wanpeng Li
2014-01-06 13:15                                                             ` Wanpeng Li
     [not found]                                                             ` <52caac5c.27cb440a.533d.ffffbbd2SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2014-01-21 22:12                                                               ` David Rientjes
2014-01-21 22:12                                                                 ` David Rientjes
2014-01-22 23:45                                                                 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-25  5:41                               ` Han Pingtian
2013-04-25  5:41                                 ` Han Pingtian

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