Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:14:42 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: error at compaction  (Re: mmotm 2010-04-15-14-42 uploaded
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 07:01:33PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
> mmotm 2010-04-15-14-42 
> 
> When I tried 
>  # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/compaction
> 
> I see following.
> 
> My enviroment was 
>   2.6.34-rc4-mm1+ (2010-04-15-14-42) (x86-64) CPUx8
>   allocating tons of hugepages and reduce free memory.
> 
> What I did was:
>   # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
> 
> Hmm, I see this kind of error at migation for the 1st time..
> my.config is attached. Hmm... ?
> 
> (I'm sorry I'll be offline soon.)

That's ok, thanks you for the report. I'm afraid I made little progress
as I spent most of the day on other bugs but I do have something for
you.

First, I reproduced the problem using your .config. However, the problem does
not manifest with the .config I normally use which is derived from the distro
kernel configuration (Debian Lenny). So, there is something in your .config
that triggers the problem. I very strongly suspect this is an interaction
between migration, compaction and page allocation debug. Compaction takes
pages directly off the buddy list and I bet you a shiny penny they are still
unmapped when the copy takes place resulting in your oops.

I'll verify the theory tomorrow but it's a plausible explanation. On a
different note, where did config options like the following come out of?

CONFIG_ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS="-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" 

I don't think they are a factor but I'm curious.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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