Re: [Bug 8464] New: autoreconf: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x84020

[mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)]

On (12/05/07 10:11), Nicolas Mailhot didst pronounce:
> Le vendredi 11 mai 2007 à 21:36 +0100, Mel Gorman a écrit :
> 
> > I'm pretty sure I have. I recreated the tree and reverted the same patch as
> > you and regenerated the diff below. I sent it to myself and it appeared ok
> > and another automated system was able to use it.
> > 
> > In case it's a mailer problem, the patch can be downloaded from
> > http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/kswapd-minorder.patch . 
> 
> This one applies, but the kernel still has allocation failures (I just
> found rpm -Va was a good trigger). So so far we have two proposed fixes
> none of which work
> 

Sorry about this. What is most preplexing is that the memory was free.
In your log we see;

> May 12 10:00:47 rousalka kernel: DMA: 6*4kB 4*8kB 9*16kB 3*32kB 6*64kB 7*128kB 5*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 7976kB
> May 12 10:00:47 rousalka kernel: DMA32: 2619*4kB 27*8kB 6*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 11556kB

and

> May 12 10:00:47 rousalka kernel: DMA: 6*4kB 4*8kB 9*16kB 3*32kB 6*64kB 7*128kB 5*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 7976kB
> May 12 10:00:47 rousalka kernel: DMA32: 1651*4kB 29*8kB 10*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7764kB

order-2 (at least 19 pages but more are there) and higher pages were free
and this was a NORMAL allocation. It should also be above watermarks so
something screwy is happening

*peers suspiciously*

Can you try the following patch on top of the kswapd patch please? It is
also available from http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/watermarks.patch

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.21-mm2-watermarks/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/page_alloc.c	2007-05-11 21:16:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm2-watermarks/mm/page_alloc.c	2007-05-12 17:34:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ restart:
 	/* This allocation should allow future memory freeing. */
 
 rebalance:
-	if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
+	if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) || !wait))
 			&& !in_interrupt()) {
 		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
 nofail_alloc:
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ nofail_alloc:
 				zonelist, ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
 			if (page)
 				goto got_pg;
-			if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
+			if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL && wait) {
 				congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50);
 				goto nofail_alloc;
 			}
-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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