From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: Lockup in wait_transaction_locked under memory pressure Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:18:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20150625151842.GK17237@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <558BD447.1010503@kyup.com> <558BD507.9070002@kyup.com> <20150625112116.GC17237@dhcp22.suse.cz> <558BE96E.7080101@kyup.com> <20150625115025.GD17237@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20150625133138.GH14324@thunk.org> <558C06F7.9050406@kyup.com> <20150625140510.GI17237@dhcp22.suse.cz> <558C116E.2070204@kyup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Ts'o , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Marian Marinov To: Nikolay Borisov Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56425 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751902AbbFYPSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:18:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558C116E.2070204@kyup.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu 25-06-15 17:34:22, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > On 06/25/2015 05:05 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Thu 25-06-15 16:49:43, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > > [...] > >> How would you advise to rectify such situation? > > > > As I've said. Check the oom victim traces and see if it is holding any > > of those locks. > > As mentioned previously all OOM traces are identical to the one I've > sent - OOM being called form the page fault path. By identical you mean that all of them kill the same task? Or just that the path is same (which wouldn't be surprising as this is the only path which triggers memcg oom killer)? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs