PROBLEM-PERSISTS: dmesg spam: alloc_contig_range: [XX, YY) PFNs busy

[Robin H. Johnson]

I didn't get any responses to this.

git bisect shows that the problem did actually exist in 4.5.0-rc6, but
has gotten worse by many orders of magnitude (< 1/week to ~20M/hour).

Presently with 4.9-rc5, it's now writing ~2.5GB/hour to syslog.

The list of addresses in that time is only ~80 unique ranges, each
appearing ~320K times. They don't appear exactly in order, so the kernel
does not squelch the log message for appearing too frequently.

Could somebody at least make a suggestion on how to trace the printed
range to somewhere in the kernel?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:25:32AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> (Replies CC to list and direct to me please)
> 
> Summary:
> --------
> dmesg spammed with alloc_contig_range: [XX, YY) PFNs busy
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> I recently upgrading 4.9-rc5, (previous kernel 4.5.0-rc6-00141-g6794402), 
> and since then my dmesg has been absolutely flooded with 'PFNs busy'
> (>3GiB/day). My config did not change (all new options =n).
> 
> It's not consistent addresses, so the squelch of identical printk lines
> hasn't helped.
> Eg output:
> [187487.621916] alloc_contig_range: [83f0a9, 83f0aa) PFNs busy
> [187487.621924] alloc_contig_range: [83f0ce, 83f0cf) PFNs busy
> [187487.621976] alloc_contig_range: [83f125, 83f126) PFNs busy
> [187487.622013] alloc_contig_range: [83f127, 83f128) PFNs busy
> 
> Keywords:
> ---------
> mm, alloc_contig_range, CMA
> 
> Most recent kernel version which did not have the bug:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Known 4.5.0-rc6-00141-g6794402
> 
> ver_linux:
> ----------
> Linux bohr-int 4.9.0-rc5-00177-g81bcfe5 #12 SMP Wed Nov 16 13:16:32 PST
> 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
> 
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> readlink: missing operand
> Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
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