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When the user specifies too many hugepages or an invalid default_hugepagesz the communication to the user is implicit in the allocation message. This patch adds a warning when the desired page count is not allocated and prints an error when the default_hugepagesz is invalid on boot. During boot hugepages will allocate until there is a fraction of the hugepage size left. That is, we allocate until either the request is satisfied or memory for the pages is exhausted. When memory for the pages is exhausted, it will most likely lead to the system failing with the OOM manager not finding enough (or anything) to kill (unless you're using really big hugepages in the order of 100s of MB or in the GBs). The user will most likely see the OOM messages much later in the boot sequence than the implicitly stated message. Worse yet, you may even get an OOM for each processor which causes many pages of OOMs on modern systems. Although these messages will be printed earlier than the OOM messages, at least giving the user errors and warnings will highlight the configuration as an issue. I'm trying to point the user in the right direction by providing a more robust statement of what is failing. During the sysctl or echo command, the user can check the results much easier than if the system hangs during boot and the scenario of having nothing to OOM for kernel memory is highly unlikely. Mike said: "Before sending out this patch, I asked Liam off list why he was doing it. Was it something he just thought would be useful? Or, was there some type of user situation/need. He said that he had been called in to assist on several occasions when a system OOMed during boot. In almost all of these situations, the user had grossly misconfigured huge pages. DB users want to pre-allocate just the right amount of huge pages, but sometimes they can be really off. In such situations, the huge page init code just allocates as many huge pages as it can and reports the number allocated. There is no indication that it quit allocating because it ran out of memory. Of course, a user could compare the number in the message to what they requested on the command line to determine if they got all the huge pages they requested. The thought was that it would be useful to at least flag this situation. That way, the user might be able to better relate the huge page allocation failure to the OOM. I'm not sure if the e-mail discussion made it obvious that this is something he has seen on several occasions. I see Michal's point that this will only flag the situation where someone configures huge pages very badly. And, a more extensive look at the situation of misconfiguring huge pages might be in order. But, this has happened on several occasions which led to the creation of this patch" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reposition memfmt() to avoid forward declaration] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170603005413.10380-1-Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.