Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:57:06 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> Subject: Re: Kernel build fails on ARM: Cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory Message-ID: <20130623065706.GV91021@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306221636360.43796@desktop> References: <51C1F53B.2080502@semihalf.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306200755210.2005@desktop> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306201350330.2005@desktop> <51C4A067.7010203@semihalf.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306221636360.43796@desktop>
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 04:37:24PM -1000, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
>=20
> > On 21.06.2013 01:56, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been trying to compile the kernel on my ARMv7 platform using the
> >>>> sources from the current FreeBSD HEAD.
> >>>>
> >>>> make buildkernel <.....> -j5
> >>>>
> >>>> 1/2 builds fails in the way described below:
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>> ing-include-dirs -fdiagnostics-show-option -nostdinc -I.
> >>>> -I/root/src/freebsd-arm-superpages/sys
> >>>> -I/root/src/freebsd-arm-superpages/sys/contrib/altq
> >>>> -I/root/src/freebsd-arm-superpages/sys/contrib/libfdt -D_KERNEL
> >>>> -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h -fno-common
> >>>> -finline-limit=3D8000 --param inline-unit-growth=3D100 --param
> >>>> large-function-growth=3D1000 -mno-thumb-interwork -ffreestanding -W=
error
> >>>> /root/src/freebsd-arm-superpages/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c
> >>>> Cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
> >>>> *** [ffs_snapshot.o] Error code 2
> >>>> 1 error
> >>>> *** [buildkernel] Error code 2
> >>>> 1 error
> >>>> *** [buildkernel] Error code 2
> >>>> 1 error
> >>>> 5487.888u 481.569s 7:35.65 1310.0% 1443+167k 1741+5388io 221pf+=
0w
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The warning from std err is:
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>> vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> >>>> vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I was trying to find out which commit is causing this (because I was
> >>>> previously working on some older revision) and using bisect I got to:
> >>>>
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>> Author: jeff <jeff@FreeBSD.org>
> >>>> Date: Tue Jun 18 04:50:20 2013 +0000
> >>>>
> >>>> Refine UMA bucket allocation to reduce space consumption and impr=
ove
> >>>> performance.
> >>>>
> >>>> - Always free to the alloc bucket if there is space. This gives
> >>>> LIFO
> >>>> allocation order to improve hot-cache performance. This also
> >>>> allows
> >>>> for zones with a single bucket per-cpu rather than a pair if t=
he
> >>>> entire
> >>>> working set fits in one bucket.
> >>>> - Enable per-cpu caches of buckets. To prevent recursive bucket
> >>>> allocation one bucket zone still has per-cpu caches disabled.
> >>>> - Pick the initial bucket size based on a table driven maximum s=
ize
> >>>> per-bucket rather than the number of items per-page. This giv=
es
> >>>> more sane initial sizes.
> >>>> - Only grow the bucket size when we face contention on the zone
> >>>> lock, this
> >>>> causes bucket sizes to grow more slowly.
> >>>> - Adjust the number of items per-bucket to account for the header
> >>>> space.
> >>>> This packs the buckets more efficiently per-page while making =
them
> >>>> not quite powers of two.
> >>>> - Eliminate the per-zone free bucket list. Always return buckets
> >>>> back
> >>>> to the bucket zone. This ensures that as zones grow into larg=
er
> >>>> bucket sizes they eventually discard the smaller sizes. It
> >>>> persists
> >>>> fewer buckets in the system. The locking is slightly trickier.
> >>>> - Only switch buckets in zalloc, not zfree, this eliminates
> >>>> pathological
> >>>> cases where we ping-pong between two buckets.
> >>>> - Ensure that the thread that fills a new bucket gets to allocate
> >>>> from
> >>>> it to give a better upper bound on allocation time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I checked this several times and this commits seems to be causing th=
is.
> >>>
> >>> Can you tell me how many cores and how much memory you have? And
> >>> paste the output of vmstat -z when you see this error.
> >>>
> >>> You can try changing bucket_select() at line 339 in uma_core.c to rea=
d:
> >>>
> >>> static int
> >>> bucket_select(int size)
> >>> {
> >>> return (MAX(PAGE_SIZE / size, 1));
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> This will approximate the old bucket sizing behavior.
> >>
> >> Just to add some more information; On my machine with 16GB of ram the
> >> handful of recent UMA commits save about 20MB of kmem on boot. There
> >> are 30% fewer buckets allocated. And all of the malloc zones have
> >> similar amounts of cached space. Actually the page size malloc bucket
> >> is taking up much less space.
> >>
> >> I don't know if the problem is unique to arm but I have tested x86
> >> limited to 512MB of ram without trouble. I will need the stats I
> >> mentioned before to understand what has happened.
> >>
> >
> > Hello Jeff,
> >
> > Thank you for your interest in my problem.
> >
> > My system is a quad-core ARMv7 with 2048 MB of RAM on board.
> > Please see attachment for the output from vmstat -z when the error occu=
rs.
> >
> > Changing bucket_select() to
> >
> > static int
> > bucket_select(int size)
> > {
> > return (MAX(PAGE_SIZE / size, 1));
> > }
> >
> > as you suggested helps for the problem. I've performed numerous attempts
> > to build the kernel and none of them failed.
> >
>=20
> I don't really see a lot of wasted memory in the zones. There is=20
> certainly some. Can you give me sysctl vm from both a working and=20
> non-working kernel after the build is done or fails?
Try this:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/arm_bcache.1.patch
Please _do_ notify me whether it compiled and helped with your problem.
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