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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
	Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: 4.2-rc2: hitting "file-max limit 8192 reached"
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:54:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A530A3.2080301@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430231830-7702-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2.  Once I log in to my
X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors from applications
and see this in my dmesg:

	VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

Could this be from CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y?  files_init()
seems top be sizing files_stat.max_files from memory sizes.

vfs_caches_init() uses nr_free_pages() to figure out what the "current
kernel size" is in early boot.  *But* since we have not freed most of
our memory, nr_free_pages() is low and makes us calculate the reserve as
if the kernel we huge.

Adding some printk's confirms this.  Broken kernel:

	vfs_caches_init() mempages: 4026972
	vfs_caches_init() reserve: 4021629
	vfs_caches_init() mempages (after reserve minus): 5343
	files_init() n: 2137
	files_init() files_stat.max_files: 8192

Working kernel:

	vfs_caches_init() mempages: 4026972
	vfs_caches_init() reserve: 375
	vfs_caches_init() mempages2: 4026597
	files_init() n: 1610638
	files_init() files_stat.max_files: 1610638

Do we have an alternative to call instead of nr_free_pages() in
vfs_caches_init()?

I guess we could save off 'nr_initialized' in memmap_init_zone() and
then use "nr_initialized - nr_free_pages()", but that seems a bit hackish.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-14 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28 14:36 [PATCH 0/13] Parallel struct page initialisation v4 Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:36 ` [PATCH 01/13] memblock: Introduce a for_each_reserved_mem_region iterator Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:36 ` [PATCH 02/13] mm: meminit: Move page initialization into a separate function Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 03/13] mm: meminit: Only set page reserved in the memblock region Mel Gorman
2015-05-22 20:31   ` Tony Luck
2015-05-26 10:22     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 04/13] mm: page_alloc: Pass PFN to __free_pages_bootmem Mel Gorman
2015-05-01  9:20   ` [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: pass PFN to __free_pages_bootmem -fix Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: meminit: Make __early_pfn_to_nid SMP-safe and introduce meminit_pfn_in_nid Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 06/13] mm: meminit: Inline some helper functions Mel Gorman
2015-04-30 21:53   ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-30 21:55     ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-04  8:33   ` Michal Hocko
2015-05-04  8:38     ` Michal Hocko
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 07/13] mm: meminit: Initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set Mel Gorman
2015-04-29 21:19   ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-30  8:45     ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-01  9:21   ` [PATCH] mm: meminit: Initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set -fix Mel Gorman
2015-07-14 15:54   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-07-14 16:15     ` 4.2-rc2: hitting "file-max limit 8192 reached" Andrew Morton
2015-07-15 10:45     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 08/13] mm: meminit: Initialise remaining struct pages in parallel with kswapd Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 09/13] mm: meminit: Minimise number of pfn->page lookups during initialisation Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 10/13] x86: mm: Enable deferred struct page initialisation on x86-64 Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 11/13] mm: meminit: Free pages in large chunks where possible Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 12/13] mm: meminit: Reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init Mel Gorman
2015-05-01  9:23   ` [PATCH] mm: meminit: Reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init -fix Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 14:37 ` [PATCH 13/13] mm: meminit: Remove mminit_verify_page_links Mel Gorman
2015-04-28 16:06 ` [PATCH 0/13] Parallel struct page initialisation v4 Pekka Enberg
2015-04-28 18:38   ` nzimmer
2015-04-30 16:10     ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-04-30 17:12       ` nzimmer
2015-04-30 17:28         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-02 11:52       ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-29  1:16 ` Waiman Long
2015-05-01 22:02   ` Waiman Long
2015-05-02  0:09     ` Waiman Long
2015-05-02  8:52       ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-05-02 16:05         ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-05-04 21:30       ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-05  3:32         ` Waiman Long
2015-05-05 10:45         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-05 13:55           ` Waiman Long
2015-05-05 14:31             ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-05 15:01               ` Waiman Long
2015-05-06  3:39                 ` Waiman Long
2015-05-06  0:55               ` Waiman Long
2015-05-05 20:02           ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-05 22:13             ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-05 22:25               ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-06  7:12                 ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-06 10:22                   ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-06 12:05                     ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-06 17:58                     ` Waiman Long
2015-05-07  2:37                       ` Waiman Long
2015-05-07  7:21                         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-06  1:21             ` Waiman Long
2015-05-06  2:01               ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-07  7:25             ` [PATCH] mm: meminit: Finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup Mel Gorman
2015-05-07 22:09               ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-07 22:52                 ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-07 23:02                   ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-13 15:53                 ` nzimmer
2015-05-13 16:31                   ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-14 10:03                     ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-05-14 15:47                       ` nzimmer
2015-05-19 18:31                       ` nzimmer
2015-05-19 19:06                         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-22  6:30                       ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-05-22  9:33                         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-22 17:14                           ` Waiman Long
2015-05-22 21:43                             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-05-23  3:49                             ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-06-24 22:50                       ` Nathan Zimmer
2015-06-25 20:48                         ` Mel Gorman
2015-06-25 20:57                           ` Mel Gorman
2015-06-25 21:37                             ` Nathan Zimmer
2015-06-25 21:34                           ` Nathan Zimmer
2015-06-25 21:44                           ` [RFC] kthread_create_on_node is failing to honor the node choice Nathan Zimmer
2015-06-26  1:08                             ` Lai Jiangshan
2015-07-09 22:12                             ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-10 14:26                               ` Mel Gorman
2015-07-10 17:34                               ` Nathan Zimmer
2015-06-26 10:16                         ` [PATCH] mm: meminit: Finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup Mel Gorman
2015-07-06 17:45                         ` Daniel J Blueman
2015-07-09 17:49                           ` Nathan Zimmer

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