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Subject[3.6 regression?] THP + migration/compaction livelock (I think)
I've seen an odd problem three times in the past two weeks.  I suspect
a Linux 3.6 regression. I"m on 3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_64. I run a parallel
compilation, and no progress is made. All cpus are pegged at 100%
system time by the respective cc1plus processes. Reading
/proc/<pid>/stack shows either

[<ffffffff8108e01a>] __cond_resched+0x2a/0x40
[<ffffffff8114e432>] isolate_migratepages_range+0xb2/0x620
[<ffffffff8114eba4>] compact_zone+0x144/0x410
[<ffffffff8114f152>] compact_zone_order+0x82/0xc0
[<ffffffff8114f271>] try_to_compact_pages+0xe1/0x130
[<ffffffff816143db>] __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xaa/0x190
[<ffffffff81133d26>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x526/0x990
[<ffffffff81171496>] alloc_pages_vma+0xb6/0x190
[<ffffffff81182683>] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x143/0x340
[<ffffffff811549fd>] handle_mm_fault+0x27d/0x320
[<ffffffff81620adc>] do_page_fault+0x15c/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8161d625>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

or

[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

seemingly at random (i.e. if I read that file twice in a row, I might
see different results). If I had to guess, I'd say that

perf shows no 'faults'. The livelock resolved after several minutes
(and before I got far enough with perf to get more useful results).
Every time this happens, firefox hangs but everything else keeps
working.

If I trigger it again, I'll try to grab /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/meminfo.

--Andy


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