Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757297Ab3D2O5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:57:15 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49949 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757203Ab3D2O5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:57:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:57:11 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Han Pingtian Cc: Christoph Lameter , LKML , penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7 Message-ID: <20130429145711.GC1172@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20130423131558.GH8001@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130424044848.GI2672@localhost.localdomain> <20130424094732.GB31960@dhcp22.suse.cz> <0000013e3cb0340d-00f360e3-076b-478e-b94c-ddd4476196ce-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130425060705.GK2672@localhost.localdomain> <0000013e427023d7-9456c313-8654-420c-b85a-cb79cc3c4ffc-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130426062436.GB4441@localhost.localdomain> <0000013e46cba821-d5c54c99-3b5c-4669-9a54-9fb8f4ee516f-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130427112418.GC4441@localhost.localdomain> <0000013e5645b356-09aa6796-0a95-40f1-8ec5-6e2e3d0c434f-000000@email.amazonses.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0000013e5645b356-09aa6796-0a95-40f1-8ec5-6e2e3d0c434f-000000@email.amazonses.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 21 On Mon 29-04-13 14:50:08, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Han Pingtian wrote: > > > and it is called so many times that the boot cannot be finished. So > > maybe the memory isn't freed even though __free_slab() get called? > > Ok that suggests an issue with the page allocator then. You seem to have CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM enabled. Do you see the same issue when this is disabled? The kmem accounting should be disabled unless a specific limit is set but it would be better to know that this is not the factor. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/