On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:42:28AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
...
> >this is dmesg when I add kdb_backtrace() at the start of vm_pageout_oom()
> >The '... netmap_finalize_obj_allocator... are from my calls to
> >contigmalloc, each one doing one-page allocations.
>
> These calls are made with M_WAITOK?
no they are with M_NOWAIT:
...
clust = contigmalloc(p->_clustsize, M_NETMAP, M_NOWAIT | M_ZERO,
0, -1UL, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
...
p->_clustsize is 4096 in this particular set of calls.
> >I get 7-8 'KDB: stack backtrace' blocks, then allocations
> >restart successfully, then more failures...
> >The reference to fork_exit() does not seem right, because i am
> >in a block where i call contigmalloc, so the caller of
> >vm_pageout_grow_cache() should be kmem_alloc_contig().
>
> Try this instead. At the start of vm_pageout_oom(), print the value of
> its parameter "shortage". That will uniquely identify the caller.
it says "shortage is 1" which means that the call is from vm_pageout().
cheers
luigi
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