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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	davej@redhat.com, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:08:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD7CBEC.1020901@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD7C995.8040402@teksavvy.com>

On 12-06-12 06:58 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> Adding Ben Hutchings to CC: as he seems to have looked into this before.
> 
>> On 12-06-12 06:44 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> I've been seeing these messages on my AMD Fusion server
>>> running linux-3.3.7-64bit.  Does this ring any bells for anyone else?
>>> The system is NOT low on memory.
>>>
>>> I'm building/installing 3.4.2 now to see if it behaves any better.
>>>
>>> [962841.265658] mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0
>>> [962841.265674] Pid: 32116, comm: mount.nfs Not tainted 3.3.7 #2
>>> [962841.265680] Call Trace:
>>> [962841.265700]  [<ffffffff81079363>] ? warn_alloc_failed+0x11a/0x12d
>>> [962841.265713]  [<ffffffff8107b904>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6c0/0x702
>>> [962841.265725]  [<ffffffff8114fcb8>] ? timerqueue_del+0x53/0x63
>>> [962841.265758]  [<ffffffff8107b9ba>] ? __get_free_pages+0x10/0x3f
>>> [962841.265805]  [<ffffffffa01ea33d>] ? nfs_idmap_new+0x28/0xde [nfs]
>>> [962841.265836]  [<ffffffffa01c79c9>] ? nfs4_init_client+0x74/0x12a [nfs]
...
>> Looks like an old bug, perhaps:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593035
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728003
>>
>> I wonder what the underlying cause is?
>> And I also wonder if the NFS code should be more clever
>> about handing order-4 allocation failures.
> 
> More references:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg71281.html
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1004619
> http://codemonkey.org.uk/2012/02/17/fedora-16-kernel-bugzilla-status-report-20120210-20120217/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/73

Ahh.. this one seems to explain it, kind of:
   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/41686

So in 3.3.7, I didn't have CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER enabled,
and the kernel seems to be buggy without that.

In 3.4.2, that option has disappeared entirely,
most likely because it is now the default behaviour.  Right?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-12 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-12 22:44 mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory Mark Lord
2012-06-12 22:50 ` Mark Lord
2012-06-12 22:58   ` Mark Lord
2012-06-12 23:08     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2012-06-12 23:28       ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-06-12 23:46         ` Mark Lord
2012-06-12 23:16   ` Dave Jones

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