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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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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