Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753887AbZF1NbB (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:31:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752188AbZF1Nax (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:30:53 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:60505 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752158AbZF1Naw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:30:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bO5JyvZwqUHFK7WweBeJUdEV0s3/Km1kyaddcLq1ZCQ6aICBIYw+g7nD6DTUkWRGFx 0r8Fhnjzt5WplvguHB5zquX+lmgu7EN8TMWuOy7FWN51OAoJLGe8Y7ELnagId9PHvp9B T7fBqXP0nxGCDC6ofCVG6uDp5S+/SODx29wFs= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090628113246.GA18409@localhost> References: <3901.1245848839@redhat.com> <20090620043303.GA19855@localhost> <32411.1245336412@redhat.com> <20090517022327.280096109@intel.com> <2015.1245341938@redhat.com> <20090618095729.d2f27896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7561.1245768237@redhat.com> <26537.1246086769@redhat.com> <20090627125412.GA1667@cmpxchg.org> <20090628113246.GA18409@localhost> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:30:54 +0900 Message-ID: <28c262360906280630n557bb182n5079e33d21ea4a83@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs From: Minchan Kim To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Johannes Weiner , David Howells , "riel@redhat.com" , Andrew Morton , LKML , Christoph Lameter , KOSAKI Motohiro , "peterz@infradead.org" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "elladan@eskimo.com" , "npiggin@suse.de" , "Barnes, Jesse" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6372 Lines: 127 HI, Wu. On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:54:12PM +0800, Johannes Weiner wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:12:49AM +0100, David Howells wrote: >> > >> > I've managed to bisect things to find the commit that causes the OOMs.  It's: >> > >> >     commit 69c854817566db82c362797b4a6521d0b00fe1d8 >> >     Author: MinChan Kim >> >     Date:   Tue Jun 16 15:32:44 2009 -0700 >> > >> >         vmscan: prevent shrinking of active anon lru list in case of no swap space V3 >> > >> >         shrink_zone() can deactivate active anon pages even if we don't have a >> >         swap device.  Many embedded products don't have a swap device.  So the >> >         deactivation of anon pages is unnecessary. >> > >> >         This patch prevents unnecessary deactivation of anon lru pages.  But, it >> >         don't prevent aging of anon pages to swap out. >> > >> >         Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim >> >         Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro >> >         Cc: Johannes Weiner >> >         Acked-by: Rik van Riel >> >         Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton >> >         Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds >> > >> > This exhibits the problem.  The previous commit: >> > >> >     commit 35282a2de4e5e4e173ab61aa9d7015886021a821 >> >     Author: Brice Goglin >> >     Date:   Tue Jun 16 15:32:43 2009 -0700 >> > >> >         migration: only migrate_prep() once per move_pages() >> > >> > survives 16 iterations of the LTP syscall testsuite without exhibiting the >> > problem. >> >> Here is the patch in question: >> >> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c >> index 7592d8e..879d034 100644 >> --- a/mm/vmscan.c >> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c >> @@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, >>        * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to >>        * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio. >>        */ >> -     if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc)) >> +     if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc) && nr_swap_pages > 0) >>               shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0); >> >>       throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask); >> >> When this was discussed, I think we missed that nr_swap_pages can >> actually get zero on swap systems as well and this should have been >> total_swap_pages - otherwise we also stop balancing the two anon lists >> when swap is _full_ which was not the intention of this change at all. > > Exactly. In Jesse's OOM case, the swap is exhausted. > total_swap_pages is the better choice in this situation. > > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426766] Active_anon:290797 active_file:28 inactive_anon:97034 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426767]  inactive_file:61 unevictable:11322 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426768]  free:3341 slab:13776 mapped:5880 pagetables:6851 bounce:0 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426772] DMA free:7776kB min:40kB low:48kB high:60kB active_anon:556kB inactive_anon:524kB > +active_file:16kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB present:15340kB pages_scanned:30 all_unreclaimable? no > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426775] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1935 1935 1935 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426781] DMA32 free:5588kB min:5608kB low:7008kB high:8412kB active_anon:1162632kB > +inactive_anon:387612kB active_file:96kB inactive_file:256kB unevictable:45288kB present:1982128kB pages_scanned:980 > +all_unreclaimable? no > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426784] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426787] DMA: 64*4kB 77*8kB 45*16kB 18*32kB 4*64kB 2*128kB 2*256kB 3*512kB 1*1024kB > +1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7800kB > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426796] DMA32: 871*4kB 149*8kB 1*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB > +0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 5588kB > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426804] 151250 total pagecache pages > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426806] 18973 pages in swap cache > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426808] Swap cache stats: add 610640, delete 591667, find 144356/181468 > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426810] Free swap  = 0kB > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426811] Total swap = 979956kB > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.434828] 507136 pages RAM > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.434831] 23325 pages reserved > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.434832] 190892 pages shared > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.434833] 248816 pages non-shared > > > In David's OOM case, there are two symptoms: > 1) 70000 unaccounted/leaked pages as found by Andrew >   (plus rather big number of PG_buddy and pagetable pages) > 2) almost zero active_file/inactive_file; small inactive_anon; >   many slab and active_anon pages. > > In the situation of (2), the slab cache is _under_ scanned. So David > got OOM when vmscan should have squeezed some free pages from the slab > cache. Which is one important side effect of MinChan's patch? My patch's side effect is (2). My guessing is following as. 1. The number of page scanned in shrink_slab is increased in shrink_page_list. And it is doubled for mapped page or swapcache. 2. shrink_page_list is called by shrink_inactive_list 3. shrink_inactive_list is called by shrink_list Look at the shrink_list. If inactive lru list is low, it always call shrink_active_list not shrink_inactive_list in case of anon. It means it doesn't increased sc->nr_scanned. Then shrink_slab can't shrink enough slab pages. So, David OOM have a lot of slab pages and active anon pages. Does it make sense ? If it make sense, we have to change shrink_slab's pressure method. What do you think ? -- Kinds regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/