From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: Print comm name and pid when open-coded __GFP_NOFAIL allocation stucks
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:18:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150920231858.GY3902@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442732594-4205-2-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 04:03:14PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> This patch adds comm name and pid to warning messages printed by
> kmem_alloc(), kmem_zone_alloc() and xfs_buf_allocate_memory().
> This will help telling which memory allocations (e.g. kernel worker
> threads, OOM victim tasks, neither) are stalling.
>
> [ 135.568662] Out of memory: Kill process 9593 (a.out) score 998 or sacrifice child
> [ 135.570195] Killed process 9593 (a.out) total-vm:4700kB, anon-rss:488kB, file-rss:0kB
> [ 137.473691] XFS: kworker/u16:29(383) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 137.497662] XFS: a.out(8944) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 137.598219] XFS: a.out(9658) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 139.494529] XFS: kworker/u16:29(383) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 139.517196] XFS: a.out(8944) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 139.616396] XFS: a.out(9658) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 141.512753] XFS: kworker/u16:29(383) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 141.531421] XFS: a.out(8944) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
> [ 141.633574] XFS: a.out(9658) possible memory allocation deadlock in xfs_buf_allocate_memory (mode:0x1250)
>
> (Strictly speaking, we want task_lock()/task_unlock() when reading comm name.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> fs/xfs/kmem.c | 6 ++++--
> fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> index 1fcf90d..95a5b76 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> @@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
> if (ptr || (flags & (KM_MAYFAIL|KM_NOSLEEP)))
> return ptr;
> if (!(++retries % 100))
> - xfs_err(NULL,
> + xfs_err(NULL, "%s(%u) "
> "possible memory allocation deadlock in %s (mode:0x%x)",
> + current->comm, current->pid,
> __func__, lflags);
The format string will fit on a single line:
"%s(%u): Possible memory allocation deadlock in %s (mode:0x%x)",
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-20 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-20 7:03 [PATCH 1/2] xfs: Add __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN to open-coded __GFP_NOFAIL allocations Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 7:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: Print comm name and pid when open-coded __GFP_NOFAIL allocation stucks Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 23:18 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2015-09-21 1:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 5:12 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-22 8:03 ` [PATCH v3] " Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 23:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: Add __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN to open-coded __GFP_NOFAIL allocations Dave Chinner
2015-09-21 1:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
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