From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kswapd hung tasks in 2.6.38-rc1
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:40:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296513616.7797.4929.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296507528.7797.4609.camel@nimitz>
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 12:58 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 03:55 -0500, CAI Qian wrote:
> > When running LTP oom01 [1] testing, the allocation process stopped
> > processing right after starting to swap.
>
> I'm seeing the same stuff, but on -rc2. I thought it was
> transparent-hugepage-related, but I don't see much of a trace of it in
> the stack dumps.
>
> http://sr71.net/~dave/ibm/config-v2.6.38-rc2
>
> It happened to me as well around the time that things started to hit
> swap.
Still not a very good data point, but I ran a heavy swap load for an
hour or so without reproducing this. But, it happened again after I
enabled transparent huge pages. I managed to get a sysrq-t dump out of
it:
http://sr71.net/~dave/ibm/2.6.38-rc2-hang-0.txt
khugepaged is one of the three running tasks. Note, I set both its
sleep timeouts to zero to stress it out a bit.
I'll keep trying to reproduce without THP.
-- Dave
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2011-01-20 8:55 ` kswapd hung tasks in 2.6.38-rc1 CAI Qian
2011-01-31 20:58 ` Dave Hansen
2011-01-31 22:40 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2011-01-31 23:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-31 23:20 ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-01 1:43 ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-01 17:17 ` Dave Hansen
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