Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:58:43 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Tugrul Erdogan <h.tugrul.erdogan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: kmem_map too small at heavy packet traffic Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=7YD3Bcz6RiEtpbxQ%2BrgnZzqyQk1WquPDxEJ2VD%2BpLcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bwhn7TCCEgO6mZDubriQFtgK_JfGvGC67hZKzUC3cBQOivPCw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Bwhn7StUGJH014tKx7TpeUomFO3RB9Sqv3DgTRNAgaM66kaPA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokNHQ-9ZW80RvQFsYZFmD6A3KjFqS60xDWc0=KgX4v_qQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2Bwhn7TCCEgO6mZDubriQFtgK_JfGvGC67hZKzUC3cBQOivPCw@mail.gmail.com>
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Cool, what's the PR number? It sounds like something is odd. Email -current with the PR details (number, how you reproduce it, etc) and let's see if we can get one of the VM/UMA gurus to look into it. Thanks, -adrian On 27 July 2013 00:26, Tugrul Erdogan <h.tugrul.erdogan@gmail.com> wrote: > I have just pilled a PR. > > The negative written value is directly malloc's size parameter (in fact > after some page size alignment enlargements operation). This parameter has > been defined as "unsigned long" but printing with "%ld" as signed long. So > if the size is very very big (more than 2^63 at amd64), the signed printing > can remark the first bit of size as sign bit then write the - sign. But I > think the size can not be so big, for this reason you are right, there must > be a > problem (the size parameter can come as negative or the enlargement > functions can destroy the size parameter). > > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Have you filed a PR? This should get fixed. >> >> Also, being -ve is a problem. Is the value really negative? Is it >> wrapping badly? >> >> >> >> -adrian >> >> On 25 July 2013 07:57, Tugrul Erdogan <h.tugrul.erdogan@gmail.com> wrote: >> > howdy all, >> > >> > At my work, I am using 10.0-CURRENT on Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5620 with 16GB >> > ram. I am taking >> > >> > "panic: kmem_malloc(-548663296): kmem_map too small: 539459584 total >> > allocated" >> > >> > message with configuration below: >> > >> > [root@ ~]# sysctl vm.kmem_size_min vm.kmem_size_max vm.kmem_size >> > vm.kmem_size_scale >> > vm.kmem_size_min: 0 >> > vm.kmem_size_max: 329853485875 >> > vm.kmem_size: 16686845952 >> > vm.kmem_size_scale: 1 >> > [root@ ~]# sysctl hw.physmem hw.usermem hw.realmem >> > hw.physmem: 17151787008 >> > hw.usermem: 8282652672 >> > hw.realmem: 18253611008 >> > [root@ ~]# sysctl hw.pagesize hw.pagesizes hw.availpages >> > hw.pagesize: 4096 >> > hw.pagesizes: 4096 2097152 0 >> > hw.availpages: 4187448 >> > >> > >> > When I compare vmstat and netstat output of boot time result and >> > subsequent result, the major difference are seemed at: >> > >> > pf_temp 0 0K - 79309736 128 | pf_temp 1077640 134705K - 84330076 128 >> > >> > and after the panic at the core dump file the major vmstat difference >> > is: >> > >> > temp 110 15K - 76212305 16,32,64,128,256 | temp 117 6742215K - 655115 >> > 16,32,64,128,2 >> > >> > When I explore the source code of kernel (at vm_kern.c and vm_map.c), I >> > see >> > that the panic can occur with the cases at below: >> > >> > * negative malloc size parameter >> > >> > * longer than free buffer respect to kmem_map min_offset and max_offset >> > values >> > >> > * try to allocate when the root entry of map is the rightmost entry of >> > map >> > >> > * try to allocate bigger than map's max_free value >> > >> > I think the panic occurs at mbuf creation process when calling malloc() >> > as >> > a result of couldn't be able to allocate memory; but I don't understand >> > why >> > one of this panic case activating? The memory is almost empty but the >> > device is saying kmem_map small when using about 0.5GB memory purely. >> > How >> > can i solve this panic problem? >> > >> > Thank you all for your time. >> > >> > -- Best Wishes, >> > >> > Tugrul Erdogan >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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