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From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.6.2 frequent crashes under memory + IO pressure
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:29:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160625172951.GA5586@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201606260204.BDB48978.FSFFJQHOMLVOtO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 02:04:40AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> It seems to me that somebody is using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS (with possibly
> __GFP_NOWARN), but I don't know how to identify such callers. Maybe print
> backtrace from __alloc_pages_slowpath() when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is used?

Wouldn't this create too much output for slow serial console?
Or is this case supposed to be triggered rarely?

This crash testing is pretty painful but I can try it tomorrow
if there is no better idea.

Johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-25 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 21:26 4.6.2 frequent crashes under memory + IO pressure Johannes Stezenbach
2016-06-21 11:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-23  9:18   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2016-06-23 11:26     ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-25 15:50       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2016-06-25 17:04         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-25 17:29           ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2016-06-26  9:00             ` Tetsuo Handa
     [not found]               ` <20160626150958.GA3780@sig21.net>
     [not found]                 ` <201606270135.CGD13081.LHFtFVQOSOMOJF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2016-06-26 19:40                   ` Johannes Stezenbach

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