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While browsing through ChromeOS crash reports, I found one with an allocation failure that looked like this: chrome: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=urgent,mems_allowed=0 CPU: 7 PID: 3295 Comm: chrome Not tainted 5.15.133-20574-g8044615ac35c #1 (HASH:1162 1) Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3 - 8) with KB Backlight (DT) Call trace: ... warn_alloc+0x104/0x174 __alloc_pages+0x5f0/0x6e4 kmalloc_order+0x44/0x98 kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0x124 __kmalloc+0x228/0x36c __regset_get+0x68/0xcc regset_get_alloc+0x1c/0x28 elf_core_dump+0x3d8/0xd8c do_coredump+0xeb8/0x1378 get_signal+0x14c/0x804 ... An order 7 allocation is (1 << 7) contiguous pages, or 512K. It's not a surprise that this allocation failed on a system that's been running for a while. More digging showed that it was fairly easy to see the order 7 allocation by just sending a SIGQUIT to chrome (or other processes) to generate a core dump. The actual amount being allocated was 279,584 bytes and it was for "core_note_type" NT_ARM_SVE. There was quite a bit of discussion [1] on the mailing lists in response to my v1 patch attempting to switch to vmalloc. The overall conclusion was that we could likely reduce the 279,584 byte allocation by quite a bit and Mark Brown has sent a patch to that effect [2]. However even with the 279,584 byte allocation gone there are still 65,552 byte allocations. These are just barely more than the 65,536 bytes and thus would require an order 5 allocation. An order 5 allocation is still something to avoid unless necessary and nothing needs the memory here to be contiguous. Change the allocation to kvzalloc() which should still be efficient for small allocations but doesn't force the memory subsystem to work hard (and maybe fail) at getting a large contiguous chunk. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240201171159.1.Id9ad163b60d21c9e56c2d686b0cc9083a8ba7924@changeid [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203-arm64-sve-ptrace-regset-size-v1-1-2c3ba1386b9e@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205092626.v2.1.Id9ad163b60d21c9e56c2d686b0cc9083a8ba7924@changeid Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.