J M Cerqueira Esteves <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Still on the same dual EM64T machine with a Tyan Tiger i7525 (S2672)
> motherboard and 4 GB RAM for which I reported 2.6.12 oom killings a few
> days ago:
>
> I upgraded to Ubuntu Dapper and installed its latest 2.6.15 kernel,
> which incorporates 2.6.15.4. Started with the original "binary"
> linux-image-2.6.15-16-amd64-xeon package,
> and got a few oom killings even without running the same large test
> programs as before. Then recompiled the kernel with
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE, CONFIG_SCHED_SMT, no CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL,
> and the dump_stack() call suggested by Andrew Morton for
> mm/oom_kill.c [in out_of_memory()].
>
> Repeated tests with Gaussian... and got oom-killer events similar to
> those found with 2.6.12. At
> http://jmce.artenumerica.org/en/tmp/linux-2.6.15-oom_killings/kern.log
> are the kernel messages from the killing of two Gaussian runs;
> I just show below the beginning, until the first killing.
>
> Any suggestions on patches or some pre-2.6.16 version I should try?
>
>
> Call Trace:<ffffffff8015efcb>{out_of_memory+23}
> <ffffffff80130465>{__wake_up+56}
> <ffffffff80161177>{__alloc_pages+572}
> <ffffffff8017fc25>{bio_copy_user+219}
> <ffffffff801debbf>{blk_rq_map_user+133} <ffffffff801e1b61>{sg_io+351}
> <ffffffff801e1ff8>{scsi_cmd_ioctl+494}
> <ffffffff80130465>{__wake_up+56}
> <ffffffff80265aac>{sock_def_readable+52}
> <ffffffff802c5d68>{unix_dgram_sendmsg+1085}
> <ffffffff88077e35>{:sd_mod:sd_ioctl+371}
> <ffffffff801e0058>{blkdev_driver_ioctl+93}
> <ffffffff801e0726>{blkdev_ioctl+1613}
> <ffffffff8018ce76>{do_select+1137}
> <ffffffff8026321e>{sys_sendto+251} <ffffffff8018c941>{__pollwait+0}
> <ffffffff801813d2>{block_ioctl+27} <ffffffff8018c091>{do_ioctl+33}
> <ffffffff8018c36c>{vfs_ioctl+643} <ffffffff8018c3e0>{sys_ioctl+91}
> <ffffffff8010fa46>{system_call+126}
> oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1, order=0
Yup, that looks like the same bug.
We have a candidate fix at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-blk-bounce.patch.
Could you test that? (and don't alter the Cc: list!). The patch is
against 2.6.16-rc5.
Thanks.
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