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mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:28:39 +0000 (14:28 -0200)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:20:31 +0000 (19:20 -0200)
commit018a3c3c8c81aa3c4fbfcbad2d17d1fd3b6858af
tree02668528fdb361e70924c434a940103f04d6c3f9
parent3c2eabde02c9937d5841f526eab949b28fbbbec4
mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655842
There have been several reports about pre-mature OOM killer invocation
in 4.7 kernel when order-2 allocation request (for the kernel stack)
invoked OOM killer even during basic workloads (light IO or even kernel
compile on some filesystems).  In all reported cases the memory is
fragmented and there are no order-2+ pages available.  There is usually
a large amount of slab memory (usually dentries/inodes) and further
debugging has shown that there are way too many unmovable blocks which
are skipped during the compaction.  Multiple reporters have confirmed
that the current linux-next which includes [1] and [2] helped and OOMs
are not reproducible anymore.

A simpler fix for the late rc and stable is to simply ignore the
compaction feedback and retry as long as there is a reclaim progress and
we are not getting OOM for order-0 pages.  We already do that for
CONFING_COMPACTION=n so let's reuse the same code when compaction is
enabled as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-1-vbabka@suse.cz
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7a9ea9d-bb88-bfd6-e340-3a933559305a@suse.cz

Fixes: 0a0337e0d1d1 ("mm, oom: rework oom detection")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823074339.GB23577@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Tested-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.7.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f)
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
mm/page_alloc.c