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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] ARM/ARM64: silence large module first time allocation
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On 04/25/2017 03:33 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> With kernels built with CONFIG_ARM{,64}_MODULES_PLTS=y, the first allocation
> done from module space will fail, produce a general OOM allocation and also a
> vmap warning. The second allocation from vmalloc space may or may not be
> successful, but is actually the one we are interested about in these cases.
>
> This patch series passed __GFP_NOWARN to silence such allocations from the
> ARM/ARM64 module loader's first time allocation when the MODULES_PLT option is
> enabled, and also makes alloc_vmap_area() react to the caller setting
> __GFP_NOWARN to silence "vmap allocation for size..." messages.
>
> Here is an example of what we would get without these two patches, pretty
> scary huh?

Apologies for sending twice the same patches 1/2 and 2/2 should be
discarded...

>
> # insmod /mnt/nfs/huge.ko
> [ 22.114143] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
> [ 22.183575] vmap allocation for size 15736832 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [ 22.191873] vmalloc: allocation failure: 15729534 bytes
> [ 22.197112] insmod: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd0
> [ 22.203048] CPU: 2 PID: 1506 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O 4.1.20-1.9pre-01082-gbbbff07bc3ce #9
> [ 22.212536] Hardware name: Broadcom STB (Flattened Device Tree)
> [ 22.218480] [<c0017eec>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c00135c8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [ 22.226238] [<c00135c8>] (show_stack) from [<c0638684>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xa4)
> [ 22.233473] [<c0638684>] (dump_stack) from [<c00aae1c>] (warn_alloc_failed+0x104/0x144)
> [ 22.241490] [<c00aae1c>] (warn_alloc_failed) from [<c00d72e0>] (__vmalloc_node_range+0x170/0x218)
> [ 22.250375] [<c00d72e0>] (__vmalloc_node_range) from [<c00147d0>] (module_alloc+0x50/0xac)
> [ 22.258651] [<c00147d0>] (module_alloc) from [<c008ae2c>] (module_alloc_update_bounds+0xc/0x6c)
> [ 22.267360] [<c008ae2c>] (module_alloc_update_bounds) from [<c008b778>] (load_module+0x8ec/0x2058)
> [ 22.276329] [<c008b778>] (load_module) from [<c008cfd4>] (SyS_init_module+0xf0/0x174)
> [ 22.284170] [<c008cfd4>] (SyS_init_module) from [<c0010140>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)
> [ 22.292277] Mem-Info:
> [ 22.294567] active_anon:5236 inactive_anon:1773 isolated_anon:0
> [ 22.294567] active_file:1 inactive_file:3822 isolated_file:0
> [ 22.294567] unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
> [ 22.294567] slab_reclaimable:238 slab_unreclaimable:1594
> [ 22.294567] mapped:855 shmem:2950 pagetables:36 bounce:0
> [ 22.294567] free:39031 free_pcp:198 free_cma:3928
> [ 22.327196] DMA free:156124kB min:1880kB low:2348kB high:2820kB active_anon:20944kB inactive_anon:7092kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:15288kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:262144kB managed:227676kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:3420kB shmem:11800kB slab_reclaimable:952kB slab_unreclaimable:6376kB kernel_stack:560kB pagetables:144kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:792kB local_pcp:68kB free_cma:15712kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> [ 22.371631] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> [ 22.375372] HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:2883584kB managed:0kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
> [ 22.416249] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> [ 22.419986] DMA: 3*4kB (UEM) 4*8kB (UE) 1*16kB (M) 4*32kB (UEMC) 3*64kB (EMC) 1*128kB (E) 4*256kB (UEMC) 2*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (MC) 4*2048kB (UEMC) 35*4096kB (MRC) = 156156kB
> [ 22.435922] HighMem: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB
> [ 22.446130] 6789 total pagecache pages
> [ 22.449889] 0 pages in swap cache
> [ 22.453212] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
> [ 22.458447] Free swap = 0kB
> [ 22.461334] Total swap = 0kB
> [ 22.464222] 786432 pages RAM
> [ 22.467110] 720896 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
> [ 22.471388] 725417 pages reserved
> [ 22.474711] 4096 pages cma reserved
> [ 22.511310] big_init: I am a big module using 3932160 bytes of data!
>
> Florian Fainelli (3):
> mm: Silence vmap() allocation failures based on caller gfp_flags
> ARM: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS=y
> arm64: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y
>
> arch/arm/kernel/module.c | 11 +++++++++--
> arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 7 ++++++-
> mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>


--
Florian

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