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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: Serialize warn_alloc() if schedulable.
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:59:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170601115936.GA9091@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496317427-5640-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Thu 01-06-17 20:43:47, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Cong Wang has reported a lockup when running LTP memcg_stress test [1].

This seems to be on an old and not pristine kernel. Does it happen also
on the vanilla up-to-date kernel?

[...]
> Therefore, this patch uses a mutex dedicated for warn_alloc() like
> suggested in [3].

As I've said previously. We have rate limiting and if that doesn't work
out well, let's tune it. The lock should be the last resort to go with.
We already throttle show_mem, maybe we can throttle dump_stack as well,
although it sounds a bit strange that this adds so much to the picture.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 11:43 [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: Serialize warn_alloc() if schedulable Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-01 11:59 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-06-01 13:11   ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-01 13:28     ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-01 22:10       ` Andrew Morton
2017-06-02  7:18         ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-02 11:13           ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-02 12:15             ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-02 17:13               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-02 21:57             ` Cong Wang
2017-06-04  8:58               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-04 15:05                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-04 21:43                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-05  5:37                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-05 18:15                       ` Cong Wang
2017-06-06  9:17                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-05 18:25                 ` Cong Wang
2017-06-22 10:35                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-22 22:53                     ` Cong Wang
2017-06-02 16:59           ` Cong Wang
2017-06-02 19:59           ` Andrew Morton
2017-06-03  2:57             ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-03  7:32             ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-03  8:36               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-05  7:10                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-06-05  9:36                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-06-05 15:02                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-03 13:21               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-08  4:59           ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-10 13:21             ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-10 13:54               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-10 14:14                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-11 13:10                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-11 13:49                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-11 14:58                       ` Petr Mladek
2017-07-11 22:06                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-12  8:54                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-12 12:23                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-12 12:41                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:30                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-07-14 12:48                                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-09  6:14                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-08-09 13:01                                     ` Tetsuo Handa

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