From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"yuwang.yuwang" <yuwang.yuwang@alibaba-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too long
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:37:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171026143737.GC21147@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509017339-4802-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:28:59PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> [...] it is possible to trigger OOM lockup and/or soft lockups when
> many threads concurrently called warn_alloc() (in order to warn
> about memory allocation stalls) due to current implementation of
> printk(), and it is difficult to obtain useful information due to
> limitation of synchronous warning approach.
>
> [...]
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: yuwang.yuwang <yuwang.yuwang@alibaba-inc.com>
> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
It would have been nice to be able to fix it instead, because there is
value in having the lockup detection. But it's true that it currently
causes more problems than it solves. Back to the drawing board for now.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thanks Tetsuo!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-26 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-26 11:28 [PATCH] mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too long Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-26 11:41 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-08 10:30 ` peter enderborg
2017-11-09 8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-09 9:34 ` peter enderborg
2017-11-09 10:09 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-09 10:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-26 14:37 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2017-10-31 19:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-01 8:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-11-01 13:38 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-01 15:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 11:46 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-02 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-01 15:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-01 17:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-11-01 17:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 8:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-11-02 9:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-11-02 14:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 12:55 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-02 15:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 17:06 ` [PATCH v2] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 17:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-02 17:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-11-03 10:19 ` Jan Kara
2017-11-03 11:18 ` Steven Rostedt
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