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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:56:01 -0400
From:   Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp:  relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE
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Hello,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> This seems like a separate issue which should better be debugged. Please
> open a new thread describing the problem and the state of the node.

Yes, in my view it should be evaluated separately too, because it's
overall less concerning: __GFP_THISNODE there can only be set by the
root user there. So it has a chance to be legitimate behavior
there. Let's focus on solving the __GFP_THISNODE that any user in the
system can set (not only root) and cause severe and unexpected swap
storms or slowdowns to all other processes run by other users.

ls -l /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/*/nr_hugepages

(and boot command line)

Thanks,
Andrea