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* khugepaged eating 100%CPU
@ 2011-02-07 21:06 Michal Hocko
  2011-02-07 21:16   ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-07 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

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Hi Andrea,

I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.

I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.

Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
attached):
=========

# cat /proc/vmstat
nr_free_pages 238797
nr_inactive_anon 27329
nr_active_anon 82606
nr_inactive_file 74472
nr_active_file 63688
nr_unevictable 0
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 66328
nr_mapped 15454
nr_file_pages 175563
nr_dirty 21
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 4145
nr_slab_unreclaimable 3990
nr_page_table_pages 736
nr_kernel_stack 225
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 23503
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_isolated_anon 0
nr_isolated_file 0
nr_shmem 33266
nr_dirtied 1665981
nr_written 1539976
nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 7
nr_dirty_threshold 77641
nr_dirty_background_threshold 19410
pgpgin 19101288
pgpgout 6683994
pswpin 3797
pswpout 23401
pgalloc_dma 11688
pgalloc_normal 150706893
pgalloc_high 42372841
pgalloc_movable 0
pgfree 193783847
pgactivate 1720454
pgdeactivate 318554
pgfault 85812658
pgmajfault 15257
pgrefill_dma 288
pgrefill_normal 93009
pgrefill_high 200394
pgrefill_movable 0
pgsteal_dma 0
pgsteal_normal 3948594
pgsteal_high 601671
pgsteal_movable 0
pgscan_kswapd_dma 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 3678094
pgscan_kswapd_high 366447
pgscan_kswapd_movable 0
pgscan_direct_dma 0
pgscan_direct_normal 289918
pgscan_direct_high 303477
pgscan_direct_movable 0
pginodesteal 73185
slabs_scanned 353536
kswapd_steal 4026528
kswapd_inodesteal 173760
kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 6
kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 7758
kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 0
pageoutrun 79411
allocstall 310
pgrotated 22447
compact_blocks_moved 11205
compact_pages_moved 325766
compact_pagemigrate_failed 6165
compact_stall 347
compact_fail 67
compact_success 280
htlb_buddy_alloc_success 0
htlb_buddy_alloc_fail 0
unevictable_pgs_culled 1092
unevictable_pgs_scanned 0
unevictable_pgs_rescued 358
unevictable_pgs_mlocked 1306
unevictable_pgs_munlocked 1305
unevictable_pgs_cleared 0
unevictable_pgs_stranded 0
unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0
=========

# cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone      DMA      8      3      2      5      6      5      3      1      1      1      1 
Node 0, zone   Normal   4845   3763   2512   1682   1090    686    350    181     88     45      1 
Node 0, zone  HighMem   4485   4039   3101   1900    928    268     42      7      1      1      1 
=========

# grep . -r /proc/sys/vm/
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory:0
/proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom:0
/proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task:0
/proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks:1
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio:50
/proc/sys/vm/page-cluster:3
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio:10
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes:0
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio:40
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes:0
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs:500
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs:3000
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads:0
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness:60
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages:0
/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group:0
/proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable:0
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages:0
/proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio:256	32	32
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches:0
/proc/sys/vm/extfrag_threshold:500
/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes:44800
/proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction:0
/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count:65530
/proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode:0
/proc/sys/vm/block_dump:0
/proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure:100
/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout:0
/proc/sys/vm/stat_interval:1
/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr:4096
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled:2
/proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable:0
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages:0
=========

# cat /proc/slabinfo 
slabinfo - version: 2.1
# name            <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <limit> <batchcount> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
fuse_request          20     40    400   20    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
fuse_inode            18     36    448   18    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
RAWv6                 23     23    704   23    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
UDPLITEv6              0      0    704   23    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
UDPv6                 46     46    704   23    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
tw_sock_TCPv6          0      0    192   21    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
TCPv6                 24     24   1344   12    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
mqueue_inode_cache      1     16    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
udf_inode_cache        0      0    400   20    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
nfs_direct_cache       0      0     80   51    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
nfs_inode_cache        0      0    624   13    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
isofs_inode_cache      0      0    360   22    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
fat_inode_cache        0      0    384   21    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
fat_cache              0      0     24  170    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
hugetlbfs_inode_cache     12     12    328   12    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
journal_handle       340    340     24  170    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
journal_head         128    128     64   64    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
revoke_record        512    512     16  256    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
ext2_inode_cache       0      0    472   17    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
ext3_inode_cache    5744   5744    488   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    359    359      0
ext3_xattr             0      0     48   85    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
posix_timers_cache     34     34    120   34    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
rpc_inode_cache        0      0    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
UDP-Lite               0      0    576   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
UDP                   28     28    576   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
tw_sock_TCP           32     32    128   32    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
TCP                   32     65   1216   13    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      5      5      0
eventpoll_pwq        102    204     40  102    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
sgpool-128            24     24   2560   12    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
sgpool-64             24     24   1280   12    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
sgpool-32             24     24    640   12    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
sgpool-16             24     24    320   12    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
blkdev_queue          33     48   1008   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
blkdev_requests       42     57    208   19    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
biovec-256             2     10   3072   10    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
biovec-128            21     42   1536   21    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
biovec-64             42     42    768   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
sock_inode_cache     304    357    384   21    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     17     17      0
skbuff_fclone_cache     42     42    384   21    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
file_lock_cache      106    117    104   39    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
shmem_inode_cache   7937   8607    424   19    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    453    453      0
task_delay_info      513    612     80   51    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     12     12      0
taskstats             24     24    328   12    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
proc_inode_cache    1080   1104    352   23    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     48     48      0
sigqueue              56     56    144   28    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
bdev_cache            45     48    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
sysfs_dir_cache    24246  24310     48   85    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    286    286      0
inode_cache         4800   4800    328   12    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    400    400      0
dentry             21360  28352    128   32    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    886    886      0
buffer_head        20153  73803     56   73    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata   1011   1011      0
vm_area_struct     11721  12880     88   46    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    280    280      0
mm_struct            172    198    448   18    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     11     11      0
signal_cache         146    224    576   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     16     16      0
sighand_cache        138    192   1344   12    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     16     16      0
task_struct          232    310   3184   10    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     31     31      0
anon_vma_chain      9278  10370     24  170    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     61     61      0
anon_vma            6279   7310     24  170    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     43     43      0
radix_tree_node     7840  12870    304   13    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    990    990      0
idr_layer_cache      726    754    152   26    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     29     29      0
dma-kmalloc-8192       0      0   8192    4    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-4096       0      0   4096    8    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-2048       0      0   2048   16    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-1024       0      0   1024   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-512        0      0    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-256        0      0    256   16    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-128        0      0    128   32    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-64         0      0     64   64    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-32         0      0     32  128    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-16         0      0     16  256    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-8          0      0      8  512    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-192        0      0    192   21    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
dma-kmalloc-96         0      0     96   42    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
kmalloc-8192          21     24   8192    4    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      6      6      0
kmalloc-4096          77     88   4096    8    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     11     11      0
kmalloc-2048         134    208   2048   16    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     13     13      0
kmalloc-1024         411    416   1024   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     26     26      0
kmalloc-512         2145   2208    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    138    138      0
kmalloc-256         6638   7728    256   16    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    483    483      0
kmalloc-128        10285  12608    128   32    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    394    394      0
kmalloc-64          7029  10368     64   64    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    162    162      0
kmalloc-32          7672   8576     32  128    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     67     67      0
kmalloc-16          6800   9216     16  256    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     36     36      0
kmalloc-8           9860  10752      8  512    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     21     21      0
kmalloc-192          419    630    192   21    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     30     30      0
kmalloc-96          1732   1848     96   42    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     44     44      0
kmem_cache            32     32    128   32    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
kmem_cache_node      144    256     32  128    1 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
=========

# grep . -r /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled:[always] madvise never
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag:always madvise [never]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag:yes [no]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none:1023
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_to_scan:8192
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed:1522
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans:1498
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/scan_sleep_millisecs:10000
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/alloc_sleep_millisecs:60000
=========

# cat /proc/573/sched
khugepaged (573, #threads: 1)
---------------------------------------------------------
se.exec_start                      :     124898780.517012
se.vruntime                        :     103770117.195567
se.sum_exec_runtime                :       2346358.699391
se.statistics.wait_start           :     124898780.517012
se.statistics.sleep_start          :             0.000000
se.statistics.block_start          :             0.000000
se.statistics.sleep_max            :         59999.871498
se.statistics.block_max            :          4873.546381
se.statistics.exec_max             :             5.637947
se.statistics.slice_max            :            11.997046
se.statistics.wait_max             :           189.882598
se.statistics.wait_sum             :         34499.843330
se.statistics.wait_count           :               323449
se.statistics.iowait_sum           :           829.660887
se.statistics.iowait_count         :                   72
sched_info.bkl_count               :                    0
se.nr_migrations                   :                 3288
se.statistics.nr_migrations_cold   :                    0
se.statistics.nr_failed_migrations_affine:                    0
se.statistics.nr_failed_migrations_running:                  456
se.statistics.nr_failed_migrations_hot:                18809
se.statistics.nr_forced_migrations :                    1
se.statistics.nr_wakeups           :                11715
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_sync      :                    0
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_migrate   :                  720
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_local     :                10974
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_remote    :                  741
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_affine    :                   22
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts:                   50
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_passive   :                    0
se.statistics.nr_wakeups_idle      :                    0
avg_atom                           :             7.476027
avg_per_cpu                        :           713.612743
nr_switches                        :               313851
nr_voluntary_switches              :                11714
nr_involuntary_switches            :               302137
se.load.weight                     :                   15
policy                             :                    0
prio                               :                  139
clock-delta                        :                  324
=========

# cat /proc/573/schedstat 
2347627786306 34500147621 313971
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
  2011-02-07 21:06 khugepaged eating 100%CPU Michal Hocko
@ 2011-02-07 21:16   ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-07 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> 
> I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> 
> Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> attached):
> =========

And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
# cat /proc/573/stack 
[<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
[<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
[<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
[<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
[<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
[<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
[<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
@ 2011-02-07 21:16   ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-07 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> 
> I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> 
> Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> attached):
> =========

And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
# cat /proc/573/stack 
[<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
[<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
[<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
[<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
[<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
[<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
[<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
  2011-02-07 21:16   ` Michal Hocko
@ 2011-02-07 21:45     ` Michal Hocko
  -1 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-07 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Mon 07-02-11 22:16:01, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> > 
> > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > 
> > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > 
> > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > attached):
> > =========
> 
> And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> # cat /proc/573/stack 
> [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

And the issue is gone. Same like it came - without any obvious trigger.
$ cat /proc/573/stack
[<c01bfc8a>] khugepaged+0xab5/0xc60
[<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
[<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10]]]

So it looks like it managed to free some pages. Anyway it took a while
(I would say an hour) to do it so something seems to be fishy.
Just for reference I am attaching also the allocator state:
====

# cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone      DMA      8      3      2      5      6      5      3      1      1      1      1 
Node 0, zone   Normal   2670   3000   2194   1489   1069    690    363    180     84     43      2 
Node 0, zone  HighMem    657   3474   1338    873    254     12      0      0      0      0      0 
====

# cat /proc/vmstat
nr_free_pages 187236
nr_inactive_anon 27928
nr_active_anon 94882
nr_inactive_file 78838
nr_active_file 97601
nr_unevictable 0
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 71401
nr_mapped 20701
nr_file_pages 219722
nr_dirty 8
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 4269
nr_slab_unreclaimable 4188
nr_page_table_pages 827
nr_kernel_stack 235
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 23503
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_isolated_anon 0
nr_isolated_file 0
nr_shmem 39642
nr_dirtied 1735727
nr_written 1607464
nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 9
nr_dirty_threshold 77463
nr_dirty_background_threshold 19365
pgpgin 19253206
pgpgout 6972134
pswpin 4233
pswpout 23401
pgalloc_dma 11688
pgalloc_normal 153681036
pgalloc_high 45511627
pgalloc_movable 0
pgfree 199845128
pgactivate 1831896
pgdeactivate 318554
pgfault 87302686
pgmajfault 15523
pgrefill_dma 288
pgrefill_normal 93009
pgrefill_high 200394
pgrefill_movable 0
pgsteal_dma 0
pgsteal_normal 3949660
pgsteal_high 601671
pgsteal_movable 0
pgscan_kswapd_dma 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 3678094
pgscan_kswapd_high 366447
pgscan_kswapd_movable 0
pgscan_direct_dma 0
pgscan_direct_normal 290984
pgscan_direct_high 303477
pgscan_direct_movable 0
pginodesteal 73185
slabs_scanned 353792
kswapd_steal 4026528
kswapd_inodesteal 173760
kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 6
kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 7758
kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 0
pageoutrun 79411
allocstall 310
pgrotated 22447
compact_blocks_moved 11205
compact_pages_moved 325766
compact_pagemigrate_failed 6165
compact_stall 347
compact_fail 67
compact_success 280
htlb_buddy_alloc_success 0
htlb_buddy_alloc_fail 0
unevictable_pgs_culled 1093
unevictable_pgs_scanned 0
unevictable_pgs_rescued 359
unevictable_pgs_mlocked 1307
unevictable_pgs_munlocked 1306
unevictable_pgs_cleared 0
unevictable_pgs_stranded 0
unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0
====

# grep . -r /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled:[always] madvise never
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag:always madvise [never]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag:yes [no]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none:1023
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_to_scan:8192
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed:1524
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans:1510
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/scan_sleep_millisecs:10000
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/alloc_sleep_millisecs:60000
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
@ 2011-02-07 21:45     ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-07 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Mon 07-02-11 22:16:01, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> > 
> > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > 
> > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > 
> > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > attached):
> > =========
> 
> And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> # cat /proc/573/stack 
> [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

And the issue is gone. Same like it came - without any obvious trigger.
$ cat /proc/573/stack
[<c01bfc8a>] khugepaged+0xab5/0xc60
[<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
[<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10]]]

So it looks like it managed to free some pages. Anyway it took a while
(I would say an hour) to do it so something seems to be fishy.
Just for reference I am attaching also the allocator state:
====

# cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone      DMA      8      3      2      5      6      5      3      1      1      1      1 
Node 0, zone   Normal   2670   3000   2194   1489   1069    690    363    180     84     43      2 
Node 0, zone  HighMem    657   3474   1338    873    254     12      0      0      0      0      0 
====

# cat /proc/vmstat
nr_free_pages 187236
nr_inactive_anon 27928
nr_active_anon 94882
nr_inactive_file 78838
nr_active_file 97601
nr_unevictable 0
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 71401
nr_mapped 20701
nr_file_pages 219722
nr_dirty 8
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 4269
nr_slab_unreclaimable 4188
nr_page_table_pages 827
nr_kernel_stack 235
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 23503
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_isolated_anon 0
nr_isolated_file 0
nr_shmem 39642
nr_dirtied 1735727
nr_written 1607464
nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 9
nr_dirty_threshold 77463
nr_dirty_background_threshold 19365
pgpgin 19253206
pgpgout 6972134
pswpin 4233
pswpout 23401
pgalloc_dma 11688
pgalloc_normal 153681036
pgalloc_high 45511627
pgalloc_movable 0
pgfree 199845128
pgactivate 1831896
pgdeactivate 318554
pgfault 87302686
pgmajfault 15523
pgrefill_dma 288
pgrefill_normal 93009
pgrefill_high 200394
pgrefill_movable 0
pgsteal_dma 0
pgsteal_normal 3949660
pgsteal_high 601671
pgsteal_movable 0
pgscan_kswapd_dma 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 3678094
pgscan_kswapd_high 366447
pgscan_kswapd_movable 0
pgscan_direct_dma 0
pgscan_direct_normal 290984
pgscan_direct_high 303477
pgscan_direct_movable 0
pginodesteal 73185
slabs_scanned 353792
kswapd_steal 4026528
kswapd_inodesteal 173760
kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 6
kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 7758
kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 0
pageoutrun 79411
allocstall 310
pgrotated 22447
compact_blocks_moved 11205
compact_pages_moved 325766
compact_pagemigrate_failed 6165
compact_stall 347
compact_fail 67
compact_success 280
htlb_buddy_alloc_success 0
htlb_buddy_alloc_fail 0
unevictable_pgs_culled 1093
unevictable_pgs_scanned 0
unevictable_pgs_rescued 359
unevictable_pgs_mlocked 1307
unevictable_pgs_munlocked 1306
unevictable_pgs_cleared 0
unevictable_pgs_stranded 0
unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0
====

# grep . -r /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled:[always] madvise never
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag:always madvise [never]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag:yes [no]
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none:1023
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_to_scan:8192
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed:1524
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans:1510
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/scan_sleep_millisecs:10000
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/alloc_sleep_millisecs:60000
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
  2011-02-07 21:16   ` Michal Hocko
@ 2011-02-07 23:12     ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -1 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andrea Arcangeli @ 2011-02-07 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michal Hocko; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

Hello Michal,

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> > 
> > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > 
> > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > 
> > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > attached):
> > =========
> 
> And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> # cat /proc/573/stack 
> [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

It would be great to know if __alloc_pages_nodemask returned or if it
was calling it in a loop.

When __alloc_pages_nodemask fails in collapse_huge_page, hpage is set
to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), then khugepaged_scan_pmd returns 1, then
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot goto breakouterloop_mmap_sem and return
progress, then the khugepaged_do_scan main loop should notice that
IS_ERR(*hpage) is set and break out of the loop and return void, then
khugepaged_loop should notice that IS_ERR(hpage) is set and it should
throttle for alloc_sleep_millisecs inside khugepaged_alloc_sleep
before setting hpage to NULL and trying again to allocate. I wonder
what could be going wrong in khugepaged.. I wonder if it's a bug inside
__alloc_pages_nodemask and not a khugepaged issue. Best would be if
you run SYSRQ+l several times (/proc/*/stack don't seem to be the best
for running tasks even if it should be accurate enough already, but if
you run it often and with sysrq+l it'll be more clear what is
running).

I hope you can reproduce, if it's an allocator issue you should notice
it again by keeping the same workload on that same system. I doubt I
can reproduce at the moment as I don't know what's going on to
simulate your load.

Thanks a lot,
Andrea

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
@ 2011-02-07 23:12     ` Andrea Arcangeli
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andrea Arcangeli @ 2011-02-07 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michal Hocko; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

Hello Michal,

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> > 
> > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > 
> > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > 
> > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > attached):
> > =========
> 
> And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> # cat /proc/573/stack 
> [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

It would be great to know if __alloc_pages_nodemask returned or if it
was calling it in a loop.

When __alloc_pages_nodemask fails in collapse_huge_page, hpage is set
to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), then khugepaged_scan_pmd returns 1, then
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot goto breakouterloop_mmap_sem and return
progress, then the khugepaged_do_scan main loop should notice that
IS_ERR(*hpage) is set and break out of the loop and return void, then
khugepaged_loop should notice that IS_ERR(hpage) is set and it should
throttle for alloc_sleep_millisecs inside khugepaged_alloc_sleep
before setting hpage to NULL and trying again to allocate. I wonder
what could be going wrong in khugepaged.. I wonder if it's a bug inside
__alloc_pages_nodemask and not a khugepaged issue. Best would be if
you run SYSRQ+l several times (/proc/*/stack don't seem to be the best
for running tasks even if it should be accurate enough already, but if
you run it often and with sysrq+l it'll be more clear what is
running).

I hope you can reproduce, if it's an allocator issue you should notice
it again by keeping the same workload on that same system. I doubt I
can reproduce at the moment as I don't know what's going on to
simulate your load.

Thanks a lot,
Andrea

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* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
  2011-02-07 23:12     ` Andrea Arcangeli
@ 2011-02-08  8:45       ` Michal Hocko
  -1 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-08  8:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Tue 08-02-11 00:12:28, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello Michal,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Hi Andrea,
> > > 
> > > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > > 
> > > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > > 
> > > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > > attached):
> > > =========
> > 
> > And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> > # cat /proc/573/stack 
> > [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> > [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> > [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> > [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> > [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> > [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> > [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> 
> It would be great to know if __alloc_pages_nodemask returned or if it
> was calling it in a loop.
> 
> When __alloc_pages_nodemask fails in collapse_huge_page, hpage is set
> to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), then khugepaged_scan_pmd returns 1, then
> khugepaged_scan_mm_slot goto breakouterloop_mmap_sem and return
> progress, then the khugepaged_do_scan main loop should notice that
> IS_ERR(*hpage) is set and break out of the loop and return void, then
> khugepaged_loop should notice that IS_ERR(hpage) is set and it should
> throttle for alloc_sleep_millisecs inside khugepaged_alloc_sleep
> before setting hpage to NULL and trying again to allocate. I wonder
> what could be going wrong in khugepaged.. I wonder if it's a bug inside
> __alloc_pages_nodemask and not a khugepaged issue. Best would be if
> you run SYSRQ+l several times.

OK, I will try if I see it again.

> 
> I hope you can reproduce, if it's an allocator issue you should notice
> it again by keeping the same workload on that same system. I doubt I
> can reproduce at the moment as I don't know what's going on to
> simulate your load.

My workload is rather "normal", I would say. Firefox with couple of
tabs, skype, mutt, xine (wathing the stream television), kernel builds)
and repeated suspend/wakeup cycles (I am rebooting only when installing
a new kernel - aka new rc is released or I need to test something). So
it is hard to find out what triggered this situation.

I will let you know when I get into the same situation and provide the
sysrq+l.

Thanks
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

* Re: khugepaged eating 100%CPU
@ 2011-02-08  8:45       ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2011-02-08  8:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: LKML, linux-mm

On Tue 08-02-11 00:12:28, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello Michal,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 07-02-11 22:06:54, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Hi Andrea,
> > > 
> > > I am currently running into an issue when khugepaged is running 100% on
> > > one of my CPUs for a long time (at least one hour as I am writing the
> > > email). The kernel is the clean 2.6.38-rc3 (i386) vanilla kernel.
> > > 
> > > I have tried to disable defrag but it didn't help (I haven't rebooted
> > > after setting the value). I am not sure what information is helpful and
> > > also not sure whether I am able to reproduce it after restart (it is the
> > > first time I can see this problem) so sorry for the poor report.
> > > 
> > > Here is some basic info which might be useful (config and sysrq+t are
> > > attached):
> > > =========
> > 
> > And I have just realized that I forgot about the daemon stack:
> > # cat /proc/573/stack 
> > [<c019c981>] shrink_zone+0x1b9/0x455
> > [<c019d462>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9d/0x301
> > [<c019d803>] try_to_free_pages+0xb3/0x104
> > [<c01966d7>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x358/0x589
> > [<c01bf314>] khugepaged+0x13f/0xc60
> > [<c014c301>] kthread+0x67/0x6c
> > [<c0102db6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> 
> It would be great to know if __alloc_pages_nodemask returned or if it
> was calling it in a loop.
> 
> When __alloc_pages_nodemask fails in collapse_huge_page, hpage is set
> to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), then khugepaged_scan_pmd returns 1, then
> khugepaged_scan_mm_slot goto breakouterloop_mmap_sem and return
> progress, then the khugepaged_do_scan main loop should notice that
> IS_ERR(*hpage) is set and break out of the loop and return void, then
> khugepaged_loop should notice that IS_ERR(hpage) is set and it should
> throttle for alloc_sleep_millisecs inside khugepaged_alloc_sleep
> before setting hpage to NULL and trying again to allocate. I wonder
> what could be going wrong in khugepaged.. I wonder if it's a bug inside
> __alloc_pages_nodemask and not a khugepaged issue. Best would be if
> you run SYSRQ+l several times.

OK, I will try if I see it again.

> 
> I hope you can reproduce, if it's an allocator issue you should notice
> it again by keeping the same workload on that same system. I doubt I
> can reproduce at the moment as I don't know what's going on to
> simulate your load.

My workload is rather "normal", I would say. Firefox with couple of
tabs, skype, mutt, xine (wathing the stream television), kernel builds)
and repeated suspend/wakeup cycles (I am rebooting only when installing
a new kernel - aka new rc is released or I need to test something). So
it is hard to find out what triggered this situation.

I will let you know when I get into the same situation and provide the
sysrq+l.

Thanks
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic

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