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SubjectRe: sk_page_frag_refill OOM killing spree
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On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:28 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> seems like sk_page_frag_refill() can cause oom-killer invocation:
>
> postgres invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x42d0, order=3, oom_score_adj=0
> Pid: 10551, comm: postgres Tainted: G O 3.8.6-5.g613ca40-smp #1
> Call Trace:
> [<c106dbd5>] ? dump_header+0x60/0x191
> [<c1133d3a>] ? ___ratelimit+0xb2/0xc4
> [<c106dfd3>] ? oom_kill_process+0x61/0x2d1
> [<c1030042>] ? has_capability_noaudit+0x1c/0x23
> [<c106df0f>] ? oom_badness+0x8c/0xef
> [<c106e446>] ? out_of_memory+0x203/0x247
> [<c107128a>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x42b/0x4c3
> [<c11fa66a>] ? sk_page_frag_refill+0x6a/0xd2
> [<c1233548>] ? tcp_sendmsg+0x3e8/0x7c6
> [<c124f34b>] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6b/0x75
> [<c11f74d8>] ? sock_sendmsg+0x8d/0xa6
> [<c11f7b83>] ? sys_sendto+0x105/0x130
> [<c1025927>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x62/0x8a
> [<c1025940>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x7b/0x8a
> [<c1073d78>] ? __lru_cache_add+0x18/0x47
> [<c10812f9>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x745/0x751
> [<c1025a2d>] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xd3/0xf1
> [<c10817da>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x112/0x121
> [<c11f7be5>] ? sys_send+0x37/0x3b
>
> The system is busy, so, order-3 alloc failure doesn't strike me as odd.
>
> There are no allocation failures with order != 3.
>
> Sometimes this can happen in very short sucession, i.e.
> and oom-killer did end up zapping 30 processes or so.
>
> My question is, should sk_page_frag_refill use __GFP_NORETRY, at least
> for order 3 requests?

Yes, you may be right, but I prefer some mm expertise here, so I CC lkml





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