Re: Bug 4.9 and memorymanagement

Michal Hocko
2016-12-26T11:00:59Z

[CCing linux-mm]

On Sun 25-12-16 21:52:52, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The last days I compiled version 4.9 for my i386 laptop. (Lenovo x61s)

Do you have memory cgroups enabled in runtime (aka does the same happen
with cgroup_disable=memory)?

> First, everything seems to be sane but after some sleep and awake
> (suspend to ram) cycles I seen some really weird behaviour ending in OOM
> or even complete freeze of the laptop.
>
> What I was able to see is that it went to swap even if there is plenty
> of memory left. The OOMs was also with many memory left.

Could you paste those OOM reports from the kernel log?

> Once I also catched kswapd0 with running insane with 100% CPU
> utilization.
>
> I first had in mind the CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM setting and disabled
> it. This didn't made the problem to go away but it helped a little.
> Nevertheless, further OOM or other strange behaviour happened.
>
> I went back to 4.8.15 now with the same config from 4.9 and everything
> gets back to normal.
>
> So it seems for me that there are some really strange memory leaks in
> 4.9. The biggest problem is, that I do not know how to reproduce it
> reliable. The only what I know is that it happened after several
> suspends. (Not necessarily the first.)
>
> Am I the only one seeing that behavior or do anybody have an idea what
> could went wrong?

no there were some reports recently and 32b with memory cgroups are
broken since 4.8 when the zone LRU's were moved to nodes.
>x
> For the reference I put the .configs of the two compilings as attachment
> to this mail.
>
> Please keep me in CC as I am not subscribed to LKML.
>
> Regards
> Klaus

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs