Re: [PATCH for 3.2.34] memcg: do not trigger OOM fromadd_to_page_cache_locked

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 12:06:54 EST


On Thu 06-12-12 11:12:49, azurIt wrote:
> >Dohh. The very same stack mem_cgroup_newpage_charge called from the page
> >fault. The heavy inlining is not particularly helping here... So there
> >must be some other THP charge leaking out.
> >[/me is diving into the code again]
> >
> >* do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page falls back to handle_pte_fault
> >* do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback falls back to simple pages so it doesn't
> > charge the huge page
> >* do_huge_pmd_wp_page splits the huge page and retries with fallback to
> > handle_pte_fault
> >* collapse_huge_page is not called in the page fault path
> >* do_wp_page, do_anonymous_page and __do_fault operate on a single page
> > so the memcg charging cannot return ENOMEM
> >
> >There are no other callers AFAICS so I am getting clueless. Maybe more
> >debugging will tell us something (the inlining has been reduced for thp
> >paths which can reduce performance in thp page fault heavy workloads but
> >this will give us better traces - I hope).
>
>
> Should i apply all patches togather? (fix for this bug, more log
> messages, backported fix from 3.5 and this new one)

Yes please
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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