Dave Chinner has mentioned that some of the xfs code would benefit from
kvmalloc support for __GFP_NOFAIL because they have allocations that
cannot fail and they do not fit into a single page.
The large part of the vmalloc implementation already complies with the
given gfp flags so there is no work for those to be done. The area and
page table allocations are an exception to that. Implement a retry loop
for those.
Add a short sleep before retrying. 1 jiffy is a completely random
timeout. Ideally the retry would wait for an explicit event - e.g. a
change to the vmalloc space change if the failure was caused by the
space fragmentation or depletion. But there are multiple different
reasons to retry and this could become much more complex. Keep the
retry simple for now and just sleep to prevent from hogging CPUs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122153233.9924-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "extend vmalloc support for constrained allocations", v2.
Based on a recent discussion with Dave and Neil [1] I have tried to
implement NOFS, NOIO, NOFAIL support for the vmalloc to make life of
kvmalloc users easier.
A requirement for NOFAIL support for kvmalloc was new to me but this
seems to be really needed by the xfs code.
NOFS/NOIO was a known and a long term problem which was hoped to be
handled by the scope API. Those scope should have been used at the
reclaim recursion boundaries both to document them and also to remove
the necessity of NOFS/NOIO constrains for all allocations within that
scope. Instead workarounds were developed to wrap a single allocation
instead (like ceph_kvmalloc).
First patch implements NOFS/NOIO support for vmalloc. The second one
adds NOFAIL support and the third one bundles all together into kvmalloc
and drops ceph_kvmalloc which can use kvmalloc directly now.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/163184741778.29351.16920832234899124642.stgit@noble.brown
This patch (of 4):
vmalloc historically hasn't supported GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests because
page table allocations do not support externally provided gfp mask and
performed GFP_KERNEL like allocations.
Since few years we have scope (memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore}) APIs
to enforce NOFS and NOIO constrains implicitly to all allocators within
the scope. There was a hope that those scopes would be defined on a
higher level when the reclaim recursion boundary starts/stops (e.g.
when a lock required during the memory reclaim is required etc.). It
seems that not all NOFS/NOIO users have adopted this approach and
instead they have taken a workaround approach to wrap a single
[k]vmalloc allocation by a scope API.
These workarounds do not serve the purpose of a better reclaim recursion
documentation and reduction of explicit GFP_NO{FS,IO} usege so let's
just provide them with the semantic they are asking for without a need
for workarounds.
Add support for GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO to vmalloc directly. All internal
allocations already comply with the given gfp_mask. The only current
exception is vmap_pages_range which maps kernel page tables. Infer the
proper scope API based on the given gfp mask.
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: mm/vmalloc.c needs linux/sched/mm.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211217232641.0148710c@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122153233.9924-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122153233.9924-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Percpu embedded first chunk allocator is the firstly option, but it
could fail on ARM64, eg,
percpu: max_distance=0x5fcfdc640000 too large for vmalloc space 0x781fefff0000
percpu: max_distance=0x600000540000 too large for vmalloc space 0x7dffb7ff0000
percpu: max_distance=0x5fff9adb0000 too large for vmalloc space 0x5dffb7ff0000
then we could get to
WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 461 at vmalloc.c:3087 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x488/0x838
and the system cannot boot successfully.
Let's implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback
to the embedding allocator to increase the robustness of the system.
Also fix a crash when both NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK and
KASAN_VMALLOC enabled.
Tested on ARM64 qemu with cmdline "percpu_alloc=page".
This patch (of 3):
There are some fixed locations in the vmalloc area be reserved in
ARM(see iotable_init()) and ARM64(see map_kernel()), but for
pcpu_page_first_chunk(), it calls vm_area_register_early() and choose
VMALLOC_START as the start address of vmap area which could be
conflicted with above address, then could trigger a BUG_ON in
vm_area_add_early().
Let's choose a suit start address by traversing the vmlist.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210910053354.26721-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210910053354.26721-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huge vmalloc allocation on heavy loaded node can lead to a global memory
shortage. Task called vmalloc can have worst badness and be selected by
OOM-killer, however taken fatal signal does not interrupt allocation
cycle. Vmalloc repeat page allocaions again and again, exacerbating the
crisis and consuming the memory freed up by another killed tasks.
After a successful completion of the allocation procedure, a fatal
signal will be processed and task will be destroyed finally. However it
may not release the consumed memory, since the allocated object may have
a lifetime unrelated to the completed task. In the worst case, this can
lead to the host will panic due to "Out of memory and no killable
processes..."
This patch allows OOM-killer to break vmalloc cycle, makes OOM more
effective and avoid host panic. It does not check oom condition
directly, however, and breaks page allocation cycle when fatal signal
was received.
This may trigger some hidden problems, when caller does not handle
vmalloc failures, or when rollaback after failed vmalloc calls own
vmallocs inside. However all of these scenarios are incorrect: vmalloc
does not guarantee successful allocation, it has never been called with
__GFP_NOFAIL and threfore either should not be used for any rollbacks or
should handle such errors correctly and not lead to critical failures.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/83efc664-3a65-2adb-d7c4-2885784cf109@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We used to include an alignment overhead into a search length, in that
case we guarantee that a found area will definitely fit after applying a
specific alignment that user specifies. From the other hand we do not
guarantee that an area has the lowest address if an alignment is >=
PAGE_SIZE.
It means that, when a user specifies a special alignment together with a
range that corresponds to an exact requested size then an allocation
will fail. This is what happens to KASAN, it wants the free block that
exactly matches a specified range during onlining memory banks:
[root@vm-0 fedora]# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory82/state
[root@vm-0 fedora]# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory83/state
[root@vm-0 fedora]# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory85/state
[root@vm-0 fedora]# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory84/state
vmap allocation for size 16777216 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size
bash: vmalloc: allocation failure: 16777216 bytes, mode:0x6000c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
CPU: 4 PID: 1644 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-339.el8.x86_64+debug #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x8e/0xd0
warn_alloc.cold.90+0x8a/0x1b2
? zone_watermark_ok_safe+0x300/0x300
? slab_free_freelist_hook+0x85/0x1a0
? __get_vm_area_node+0x240/0x2c0
? kfree+0xdd/0x570
? kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x157/0x230
? notifier_call_chain+0x90/0x160
__vmalloc_node_range+0x465/0x840
? mark_held_locks+0xb7/0x120
Fix it by making sure that find_vmap_lowest_match() returns lowest start
address with any given alignment value, i.e. for alignments bigger then
PAGE_SIZE the algorithm rolls back toward parent nodes checking right
sub-trees if the most left free block did not fit due to alignment
overhead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211004142829.22222-1-urezki@gmail.com
Fixes: 68ad4a3304 ("mm/vmalloc.c: keep track of free blocks for vmap allocation")
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ping Fang <pifang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
selftests, ipc, and scripts"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits)
scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
trap: cleanup trap_init()
init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
...
In case of simultaneous vmalloc allocations, for example it is 1GB and 12
CPUs my system is able to hit "BUG: soft lockup" for !CONFIG_PREEMPT
kernel.
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_bulk+0xa9f/0xbb0
Call Trace:
__vmalloc_node_range+0x11c/0x2d0
__vmalloc_node+0x4b/0x70
fix_size_alloc_test+0x44/0x60 [test_vmalloc]
test_func+0xe7/0x1f0 [test_vmalloc]
kthread+0x11a/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
To address this issue invoke a bulk-allocator many times until all pages
are obtained, i.e. do batched page requests adding cond_resched()
meanwhile to reschedule. Batched value is hard-coded and is 100 pages per
call.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707182639.31282-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recently there has been introduced a page bulk allocator for users which
need to get number of pages per one call request.
For order-0 pages switch to an alloc_pages_bulk_array_node() instead of
alloc_pages_node(), the reason is the former is not capable of allocating
set of pages, thus a one call is per one page.
Second, according to my tests the bulk allocator uses less cycles even for
scenarios when only one page is requested. Running the "perf" on same
test case shows below difference:
<default>
- 45.18% __vmalloc_node
- __vmalloc_node_range
- 35.60% __alloc_pages
- get_page_from_freelist
3.36% __list_del_entry_valid
3.00% check_preemption_disabled
1.42% prep_new_page
<default>
<patch>
- 31.00% __vmalloc_node
- __vmalloc_node_range
- 14.48% __alloc_pages_bulk
3.22% __list_del_entry_valid
- 0.83% __alloc_pages
get_page_from_freelist
<patch>
The "test_vmalloc.sh" also shows performance improvements:
fix_size_alloc_test_4MB loops: 1000000 avg: 89105095 usec
fix_size_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 513672 usec
full_fit_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 748900 usec
long_busy_list_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 8043038 usec
random_size_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 4028582 usec
fix_align_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 1457671 usec
fix_size_alloc_test_4MB loops: 1000000 avg: 62083711 usec
fix_size_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 449207 usec
full_fit_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 735985 usec
long_busy_list_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 5176052 usec
random_size_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 2589252 usec
fix_align_alloc_test loops: 1000000 avg: 1365009 usec
For example 4MB allocations illustrates ~30% gain, all the
rest is also better.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210516202056.2120-3-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit 121e6f3258 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings"),
__vmalloc_node_range was changed such that __get_vm_area_node was no
longer called with the requested/real size of the vmalloc allocation,
but rather with a rounded-up size.
This means that __get_vm_area_node called kasan_unpoision_vmalloc() with
a rounded up size rather than the real size. This led to it allowing
access to too much memory and so missing vmalloc OOBs and failing the
kasan kunit tests.
Pass the real size and the desired shift into __get_vm_area_node. This
allows it to round up the size for the underlying allocators while still
unpoisioning the correct quantity of shadow memory.
Adjust the other call-sites to pass in PAGE_SHIFT for the shift value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210617081330.98629-1-dja@axtens.net
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213335
Fixes: 121e6f3258 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Tested-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: add vmalloc_no_huge and use it", v4.
Add vmalloc_no_huge() and export it, so modules can allocate memory with
small pages.
Use the newly added vmalloc_no_huge() in KVM on s390 to get around a
hardware limitation.
This patch (of 2):
Commit 121e6f3258 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") added
support for hugepage vmalloc mappings, it also added the flag
VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP for __vmalloc_node_range to request the allocation to be
performed with 0-order non-huge pages.
This flag is not accessible when calling vmalloc, the only option is to
call directly __vmalloc_node_range, which is not exported.
This means that a module can't vmalloc memory with small pages.
Case in point: KVM on s390x needs to vmalloc a large area, and it needs
to be mapped with non-huge pages, because of a hardware limitation.
This patch adds the function vmalloc_no_huge, which works like vmalloc,
but it is guaranteed to always back the mapping using small pages. This
new function is exported, therefore it is usable by modules.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fixes, per Christoph]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-1-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 121e6f3258 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A potential use after free can occur in _vm_unmap_aliases where an already
freed vmap_area could be accessed, Consider the following scenario:
Process 1 Process 2
__vm_unmap_aliases __vm_unmap_aliases
purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus rcu_read_lock()
rcu_read_lock()
list_del_rcu(&vb->free_list)
list_for_each_entry_rcu(vb .. )
__purge_vmap_area_lazy
kmem_cache_free(va)
va_start = vb->va->va_start
Here Process 1 is in purge path and it does list_del_rcu on vmap_block and
later frees the vmap_area, since Process 2 was holding the rcu lock at
this time vmap_block will still be present in and Process 2 accesse it and
thereby it tries to access vmap_area of that vmap_block which was already
freed by Process 1 and this results in use after free.
Fix this by adding a check for vb->dirty before accessing vmap_area
structure since vb->dirty will be set to VMAP_BBMAP_BITS in purge path
checking for this will prevent the use after free.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1616062105-23263-1-git-send-email-vjitta@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vread() has been linearly searching vmap_area_list for looking up vmalloc
areas to read from. These same areas are also tracked by a rb_tree
(vmap_area_root) which offers logarithmic lookup.
This patch modifies vread() to use the rb_tree structure instead of the
list and the speedup for heavy /proc/kcore readers can be pretty
significant. Below are the wall clock measurements of a Python
application that leverages the drgn debugging library to read and
interpret data read from /proc/kcore.
Before the patch:
-----
$ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
(unsigned long)3000
real 0m22.446s
user 0m2.321s
sys 0m20.690s
-----
With the patch:
-----
$ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
(unsigned long)3000
real 0m2.104s
user 0m2.043s
sys 0m0.921s
-----
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209190253.108763-1-serapheim@delphix.com
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
