for-next/pgtable branch: OOM error with 16K page size

Suzuki K. Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Tue Mar 1 04:51:22 PST 2016


On 01/03/16 12:17, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>
>> http://pastebin.com/Eszwp1cS
>
>> HugePages_Total:    2019
>> HugePages_Free:     2019
>> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
>> HugePages_Surp:        0
>> Hugepagesize:      32768 kB
>
> That clearly tells you whats wrong. You have 2019x32M in hugepages.
> Could you try releasing them and see if it solves the memory issue ?
>
> $ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-32768kB/nr_hugepages
>
>
> btw, whats your root file system(to be more precise, the init) ?

Also, could you get the number of HugePages_Total with 4K and 64K ?

May be your init (or whatever allocates the hugepages) requires some
hints about 16K and do something similar to what it does for 64K.

Thanks
Suzuki




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