From: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
To: "Paweł Sikora" <pluto@agmk.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
arekm@pld-linux.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:21:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110221421.23181.nai.xia@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110212336.47267.pluto@agmk.net>
On Saturday 22 October 2011 05:36:46 Paweł Sikora wrote:
> On Friday 21 of October 2011 11:07:56 Nai Xia wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> wrote:
> > > On Friday 21 of October 2011 14:22:37 Nai Xia wrote:
> > >
> > >> And as a side note. Since I notice that Pawel's workload may include OOM,
> > >
> > > my last tests on patched (3.0.4 + migrate.c fix + vserver) kernel produce full cpu load
> > > on dual 8-cores opterons like on this htop screenshot -> http://pluto.agmk.net/kernel/screen1.png
> > > afaics all userspace applications usualy don't use more than half of physical memory
> > > and so called "cache" on htop bar doesn't reach the 100%.
> >
> > OK,did you logged any OOM killing if there was some memory usage burst?
> > But, well my above OOM reasoning is a direct short cut to imagined
> > root cause of "adjacent VMAs which
> > should have been merged but in fact not merged" case.
> > Maybe there are other cases that can lead to this or maybe it's
> > totally another bug....
>
> i don't see any OOM killing with my conservative settings
> (vm.overcommit_memory=2, vm.overcommit_ratio=100).
OK, that does not matter now. Andrea showed us a simpler way to goto
this bug.
>
> > But still I think if my reasoning is good, similar bad things will
> > happen again some time in the future,
> > even if it was not your case here...
> >
> > >
> > > the patched kernel with disabled CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE (new thing in 2.6.38)
> > > died at night, so now i'm going to disable also CONFIG_COMPACTION/MIGRATION in next
> > > steps and stress this machine again...
> >
> > OK, it's smart to narrow down the range first....
>
> disabling hugepage/compacting didn't help but disabling hugepage/compacting/migration keeps
> opterons stable for ~9h so far. userspace uses ~40GB (from 64) ram, caches reach 100% on htop bar,
> average load ~16. i wonder if it survive weekend...
>
Maybe you should give another shot of Andrea's latest anon_vma_order_tail() patch. :)
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[not found] <201110122012.33767.pluto@agmk.net>
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.2.00.1110131547550.1346@sister.anvils>
2011-10-13 23:30 ` kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110 Hugh Dickins
2011-10-16 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-16 23:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 18:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-17 22:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-19 7:43 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-19 13:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-19 19:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-20 6:30 ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-20 6:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-21 6:54 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 7:35 ` Pawel Sikora
2011-10-20 12:51 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-20 18:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-21 6:22 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 8:07 ` Pawel Sikora
2011-10-21 9:07 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 21:36 ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-22 6:21 ` Nai Xia [this message]
2011-10-22 16:42 ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-20 9:11 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 15:56 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-21 17:21 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 17:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-21 22:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-22 5:52 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-31 17:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 17:27 ` [PATCH] mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge succeeding in copy_vma Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 12:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-01 14:35 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04 7:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-04 14:34 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04 15:59 ` Pawel Sikora
2011-11-05 2:21 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04 19:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-04 20:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05 0:09 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05 2:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-05 3:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05 17:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-12-08 3:24 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-08 12:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-12-09 0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-09 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-04 23:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05 0:21 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05 0:59 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05 1:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05 2:00 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-07 13:14 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-07 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-07 16:28 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-09 1:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-11 9:14 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-16 14:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-17 0:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-17 2:49 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-17 6:21 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-17 18:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-18 1:42 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-18 2:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-19 9:15 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-22 5:07 ` kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110 Nai Xia
2011-10-31 16:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-17 3:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-17 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
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