From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:08:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161227080837.GA1308@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161226185701.GA17030@boerne.fritz.box>
On Mon 26-12-16 19:57:03, Nils Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 23-12-16 23:26:00, Nils Holland wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Nils, even though this is still highly experimental, could you give it a
> > > > try please?
> > >
> > > Yes, no problem! So I kept the very first patch you sent but had to
> > > revert the latest version of the debugging patch (the one in
> > > which you added the "mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low" event) because
> > > otherwise the patch you just sent wouldn't apply. Then I rebooted with
> > > memory cgroups enabled again, and the first thing that strikes the eye
> > > is that I get this during boot:
> > >
> > > [ 1.568174] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > [ 1.568327] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memcontrol.c:1032 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size+0x118/0x130
> > > [ 1.568543] mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(f4406400, 2, 1): lru_size 0 but not empty
> >
> > Ohh, I can see what is wrong! a) there is a bug in the accounting in
> > my patch (I double account) and b) the detection for the empty list
> > cannot work after my change because per node zone will not match per
> > zone statistics. The updated patch is below. So I hope my brain already
> > works after it's been mostly off last few days...
>
> I tried the updated patch, and I can confirm that the warning during
> boot is gone. Also, I've tried my ordinary procedure to reproduce my
> testcase, and I can say that a kernel with this new patch also works
> fine and doesn't produce OOMs or similar issues.
>
> I had the previous version of the patch in use on a machine non-stop
> for the last few days during normal day-to-day workloads and didn't
> notice any issues. Now I'll keep a machine running during the next few
> days with this patch, and in case I notice something that doesn't look
> normal, I'll of course report back!
Thanks for your testing! Can I add your
Tested-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-27 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 22:57 OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9 Nils Holland
2016-12-16 7:39 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, oom: do not enfore OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 17:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-12-16 22:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-17 11:17 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-18 16:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 18:47 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Nils Holland
2016-12-17 0:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-17 12:59 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-17 14:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-17 17:11 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-17 21:06 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-18 5:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-19 13:45 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 2:08 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-21 7:36 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 11:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-21 11:16 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 14:04 ` Chris Mason
2016-12-22 10:10 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-22 10:27 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-22 10:35 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-22 10:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-22 19:17 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-22 21:46 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-23 10:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 12:18 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-23 12:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 14:47 ` [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on) Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 22:26 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-26 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-26 18:57 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-27 8:08 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-12-27 11:23 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-27 11:27 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 15:55 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 16:28 ` [PATCH] mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count kbuild test robot
2016-12-28 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 19:33 ` [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on) Nils Holland
2016-12-28 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-29 1:20 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 9:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 2:05 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-30 10:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-29 0:31 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 0:48 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-30 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 12:43 ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-25 22:25 ` [lkp-developer] [mm, memcg] d18e2b2aca: WARNING:at_mm/memcontrol.c:#mem_cgroup_update_lru_size kernel test robot
2016-12-26 12:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-26 12:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-18 0:28 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Xin Zhou
2016-12-16 18:15 ` OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9 Chris Mason
2016-12-16 22:14 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 22:47 ` Chris Mason
2016-12-16 23:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 19:50 ` Chris Mason
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