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mm: throttle show_mem() from warn_alloc() 

Tetsuo has been stressing OOM killer path with many parallel allocation
requests when he has noticed that it is not all that hard to swamp
kernel logs with warn_alloc messages caused by allocation stalls.  Even
though the allocation stall message is triggered only once in 10s there
might be many different tasks hitting it roughly around the same time.

A big part of the output is show_mem() which can generate a lot of
output even on a small machines.  There is no reason to show the state
of memory counter for each allocation stall, especially when multiple of
them are reported in a short time period.  Chances are that not much has
changed since the last report.  This patch simply rate limits show_mem
called from warn_alloc to only dump something once per second.  This
should be enough to give us a clue why an allocation might be stalling
while burst of warnings will not swamp log with too much data.

While we are at it, extract all the show_mem related handling (filters)
into a separate function warn_alloc_show_mem.  This will make the code
cleaner and as a bonus point we can distinguish which part of warn_alloc
got throttled due to rate limiting as ___ratelimit dumps the caller.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of the ratelimit_states]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215101510.9030-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko 2017-02-22 15:41:45 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f8005451d7
commit aa187507ef
1 changed files with 18 additions and 11 deletions
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mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -3007,18 +3007,12 @@ static inline bool should_suppress_show_mem(void)
return ret;
}
static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs,
DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
static void warn_alloc_show_mem(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
unsigned int filter = SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES;
struct va_format vaf;
va_list args;
static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(show_mem_rs, HZ, 1);
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs) ||
debug_guardpage_minorder() > 0)
if (should_suppress_show_mem() || !__ratelimit(&show_mem_rs))
return;
/*
@ -3033,6 +3027,20 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
if (in_interrupt() || !(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
filter &= ~SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES;
show_mem(filter);
}
void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
{
struct va_format vaf;
va_list args;
static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs) ||
debug_guardpage_minorder() > 0)
return;
pr_warn("%s: ", current->comm);
va_start(args, fmt);
@ -3044,8 +3052,7 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
pr_cont(", mode:%#x(%pGg)\n", gfp_mask, &gfp_mask);
dump_stack();
if (!should_suppress_show_mem())
show_mem(filter);
warn_alloc_show_mem(gfp_mask);
}
static inline struct page *