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authorMichal Hocko2016-10-07 17:01:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2016-10-07 18:46:29 -0700
commit63f53dea0c9866e93802d50a230c460a024c44e5 (patch)
tree8045e5150c6f016b9fd5040e10f57d4c9394a4a9 /README
parent7877cdcc3893c1bd9a833b2f0398e7320794c6e6 (diff)
mm: warn about allocations which stall for too long
Currently we do warn only about allocation failures but small allocations are basically nofail and they might loop in the page allocator for a long time. Especially when the reclaim cannot make any progress - e.g. GFP_NOFS cannot invoke the oom killer and rely on a different context to make a forward progress in case there is a lot memory used by filesystems. Give us at least a clue when something like this happens and warn about allocations which take more than 10s. Print the basic allocation context information along with the cumulative time spent in the allocation as well as the allocation stack. Repeat the warning after every 10 seconds so that we know that the problem is permanent rather than ephemeral. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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