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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>,
	Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>,
	alexander.deucher@amd.com,
	Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>,
	Leo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>,
	amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amdgpu crashes on OOM
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:03:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81568253-518f-43b7-6b20-432f7dbd6c2b@daenzer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1603684905.h43s1t0y05.none@localhost>

On 2020-10-26 5:29 a.m., Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I frequently encounter OOM on my system, mostly due to my own fault.
> Recently, I noticed that not only does a swap storm happen and OOM
> killer gets invoked, but the graphics output freezes permanently.
> Checking the kernel messages, I see:
> 
> kworker/u24:4: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null)
> CPU: 6 PID: 279469 Comm: kworker/u24:4 Tainted: G        W         5.9.0-14732-g20b1adb60cf6 #2
> Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./B450 Pro4, BIOS P4.20 06/18/2020
> Workqueue: events_unbound commit_work
> Call Trace:
>   ? dump_stack+0x57/0x6a
>   ? warn_alloc.cold+0x69/0xcd
>   ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xfb/0x116
>   ? __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x9c2/0xc14
>   ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x143/0x167
>   ? kmalloc_order+0x24/0x64
>   ? dc_create_state+0x1a/0x4d
>   ? amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail+0x1b19/0x227d

Looks like dc_create_state should use kvzalloc instead of kzalloc 
(dc_state_free already uses kvfree).

order:5 means it's trying to allocate 32 physically contiguous pages, 
which can be hard to fulfill even with lower memory pressure.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               https://redhat.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1603684905.h43s1t0y05.none.ref@localhost>
2020-10-26  4:29 ` amdgpu crashes on OOM Alex Xu (Hello71)
2020-10-26 11:03   ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2020-10-26 14:34     ` Deucher, Alexander
2020-10-26 14:50       ` Alex Xu (Hello71)

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