From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754129AbZIQUgu (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:36:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754009AbZIQUgt (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:36:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25499 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751194AbZIQUgs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:36:48 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel panic - not syncing: out of memory and no killable processes From: Eric Paris To: David Rientjes Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl In-Reply-To: References: <1253158603.5213.204.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> <1253191435.5213.209.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:35:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1253219756.5213.348.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 13:29 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Eric Paris wrote: > > > the next-20090916 tree still panic's the same way. As does Linus' > > latest git tree ab86e5765 > > > > I'll try bisecting between v2.6.31 and master if it would give better > > data than trying to bisect between two -next trees, but I'm sorta stuck > > with a machine that won't boot and doesn't tell me much about why. > > > > Try merging the following patch to get more information such as the > allocation order and gfp_mask. It will also show the VM size of all > kthreads and the state of your system memory to deterine whether there's a > page allocator issue, lowmem_reserve_ratio is too high, etc. I'll throw it in. I did another bisect (mainly because the last one gave a commit that obviously seemed bogus and Ingo ask me to) 3f2aa307c4d26b4ed6509d0a79e8254c9e07e921 is first bad commit commit 3f2aa307c4d26b4ed6509d0a79e8254c9e07e921 Author: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu Sep 10 20:34:48 2009 +0200 sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now I'm about to try a linus latest kernel with just this one patch reverted. -Eric