Hi,

I was using a program to test OOM killer, but OOM killer hung my board. The test snippet is very simple, just malloc() without free().

6 int i=0;

7 char *ptrtest=NULL;

8 while (1)

9 {

10 ptrtest = malloc(0x1000);

11 if (ptrtest == NULL)

12 printf("malloc failed.\n");

13 }

14 return 0;

After I executed this program(a.out), there is no reaction of my shell. Only this messege was shown:

[ 180.138188] Out of memory: Kill process 2706 (qq) score 623 or sacrifice child

[ 180.164230] Killed process 2706 (qq) total-vm:98156kB, anon-rss:96400kB, file-rss:4kB

I think it must be some problem with OOM killer, and tried a lot of way to get some infomation. And I got this:

=======================================================

Process: a.out, cpu: 0 pid: 1463 start: 0xd5849b00

=====================================================

Task name: a.out pid: 1463 cpu: 0

state: 0x2 exit_state: 0x0 stack base: 0xd6190000

Stack:

[<c08394e4>] __schedule+0x2c8

[<c018df88>] squashfs_cache_get+0x108

[<c0191020>] squashfs_readpage_block+0x28

[<c018f648>] squashfs_readpage+0x624

[<c0090d4c>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x228

[<c00882f4>] filemap_fault+0x1d4

[<c00a5f10>] __do_fault+0x34

[<c00a8ab0>] do_read_fault+0x19c

[<c00a9388>] handle_mm_fault+0x468

[<c00164b0>] do_page_fault+0x11c

[<c00084a4>] do_PrefetchAbort+0x34

[<c0011c1c>] ret_from_exception+0x0

I am suprised, because a.out is in /tmp, there is no relation between a.out and squashfs(my rootfs). Could anyone give me a hint ? Is the problem of squashfs or OOM killer.

Cheers,
Rock