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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Xuzhichuang <xuzhichuang@huawei.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Songjiangtao (mygirlsjt)" <songjiangtao.song@huawei.com>,
	"Zhangwei (FF)" <zw.zhang@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] OOM Killer is invoked while the system still has much memory
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:28:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150714092842.GB17660@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A4D300.5030704@huawei.com>

On Tue 14-07-15 17:14:40, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2015/7/14 17:00, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > On Tue 14-07-15 16:42:16, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> >> On 2015/7/14 16:15, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue 14-07-15 07:11:34, Xuzhichuang wrote:
> > [...]
> >>>> Jul 10 12:33:03 BMS_CNA04 kernel: [18136514.138968] DMA32: 188513*4kB 29459*8kB 2*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 990396kB
> >>>
> >>> Moreover your allocation request was oreder 2 and you do not have much
> >>> memory there because most of the free memory is in order-0-2.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Michal,
> >>
> >> order=2 -> alloc 16kb memory, and DMA32 still has 2*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*512kB, 
> >> so you mean this large buddy block was reclaimed during the moment of oom and 
> >> print, right?
> > 
> > Not really. Those high order blocks are inaccessible for your GFP_KERNEL
> > allocation. See __zone_watermark_ok.
> > 
> 
> I know, some of them are from reserved memory(MIGRATE_RESERVE), right?

No. The watermark is calculated per order. And you have almost all the
free memory in the lower orders. From a quick glance it seems that even
order-1 allocations wouldn't fit into min watermark.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-14  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-14  7:11 [BUG REPORT] OOM Killer is invoked while the system still has much memory Xuzhichuang
2015-07-14  8:15 ` Michal Hocko
2015-07-14  8:42   ` Xishi Qiu
2015-07-14  9:00     ` Michal Hocko
2015-07-14  9:14       ` Xishi Qiu
2015-07-14  9:28         ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-07-14  9:50           ` Xishi Qiu
2015-07-15  0:09 ` David Rientjes
2015-07-15  1:46   ` 答复: " Xuzhichuang
2015-07-15  1:57     ` David Rientjes

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