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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2019-11-06 08:16:51 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-11-06 19:47:50 +0300
commit1be334e5c0886197cc82923ff0ac5836111b7b57 (patch)
tree9bc1c0af912b0b630c6ca69a2466705dc00785fd /mm
parentec649c9d454ea372dcf16cccf48250994f1d7788 (diff)
downloadlinux-1be334e5c0886197cc82923ff0ac5836111b7b57.tar.xz
mm/page_alloc.c: ratelimit allocation failure warnings more aggressively
While investigating a bug related to higher atomic allocation failures, we noticed the failure warnings positively drowning the console, and in our case trigger lockup warnings because of a serial console too slow to handle all that output. But even if we had a faster console, it's unclear what additional information the current level of repetition provides. Allocation failures happen for three reasons: The machine is OOM, the VM is failing to handle reasonable requests, or somebody is making unreasonable requests (and didn't acknowledge their opportunism with __GFP_NOWARN). Having the memory dump, a callstack, and the ratelimit stats on skipped failure warnings should provide enough information to let users/admins/developers know whether something is wrong and point them in the right direction for debugging, bpftracing etc. Limit allocation failure warnings to one spew every ten seconds. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191028194906.26899-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6c717ad5f5c5..f391c0c4ed1d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3728,10 +3728,6 @@ try_this_zone:
static void warn_alloc_show_mem(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
{
unsigned int filter = SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES;
- static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(show_mem_rs, HZ, 1);
-
- if (!__ratelimit(&show_mem_rs))
- return;
/*
* This documents exceptions given to allocations in certain
@@ -3752,8 +3748,7 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...)
{
struct va_format vaf;
va_list args;
- static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
- DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
+ static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, 10*HZ, 1);
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs))
return;