Re: swap_cluster_info lockdep splat

["Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> writes:

> Hi, Hugh,
>
> Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Tim Chen wrote:
>>> 
>>> > I do not understand your zest for putting wrappers around every little
>>> > thing, making it all harder to follow than it need be.A  Here's the patch
>>> > I've been running with (but you have a leak somewhere, and I don't have
>>> > time to search out and fix it: please try sustained swapping and swapoff).
>>> > 
>>> 
>>> Hugh, trying to duplicate your test case. A So you were doing swapping,
>>> then swap off, swap on the swap device and restart swapping?
>>
>> Repeated pair of make -j20 kernel builds in 700M RAM, 1.5G swap on SSD,
>> 8 cpus; one of the builds in tmpfs, other in ext4 on loop on tmpfs file;
>> sizes tuned for plenty of swapping but no OOMing (it's an ancient 2.6.24
>> kernel I build, modern one needing a lot more space with a lot less in use).
>>
>> How much of that is relevant I don't know: hopefully none of it, it's
>> hard to get the tunings right from scratch.  To answer your specific
>> question: yes, I'm not doing concurrent swapoffs in this test showing
>> the leak, just waiting for each of the pair of builds to complete,
>> then tearing down the trees, doing swapoff followed by swapon, and
>> starting a new pair of builds.
>>
>> Sometimes it's the swapoff that fails with ENOMEM, more often it's a
>> fork during build that fails with ENOMEM: after 6 or 7 hours of load
>> (but timings show it getting slower leading up to that).  /proc/meminfo
>> did not give me an immediate clue, Slab didn't look surprising but
>> I may not have studied close enough.
>
> Thanks for you information!
>
> Memory newly allocated in the mm-swap series are allocated via vmalloc,
> could you find anything special for vmalloc in /proc/meminfo?

I found a potential issue in the mm-swap series, could you try the
patches as below?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

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