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When using large directory blocks, we regularly see memory
allocations of >64k being made for the shadow log vector buffer.
When we are under memory pressure, kmalloc() may not be able to find
contiguous memory chunks large enough to satisfy these allocations
easily, and if memory is fragmented we can potentially stall here.
TO avoid this problem, switch the log vector buffer allocation to
use kmem_alloc_large(). This will allow failed allocations to fall
back to vmalloc and so remove the dependency on large contiguous
regions of memory being available. This should prevent slowdowns
and potential stalls when memory is low and/or fragmented.
Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation. This API is quite popular
$ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
77
The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't
use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.
This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kmem_zalloc_large and _xfs_buf_map_pages use memalloc_noio_{save,restore}
API to prevent from reclaim recursion into the fs because vmalloc can
invoke unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocations and these functions might be
called from the NOFS contexts. The memalloc_noio_save will enforce
GFP_NOIO context which is even weaker than GFP_NOFS and that seems to be
unnecessary. Let's use memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} instead as it
should provide exactly what we need here - implicit GFP_NOFS context.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-6-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite
some time ago. We would like to make this concept more generic and use
it for other filesystems as well. Let's start by giving the flag a more
generic name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO
contexts. Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first
step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly
anyway.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses
it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records. The infinite loop in
the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so
just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large.
This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no
pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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v2: remove single-page fallback
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Update the .c files that depend on these APIs.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Use krealloc to implement our realloc function. This helps to avoid
new allocations if we are still in the slab bucket. At least for the
bmap btree root that's actually the common case.
This also allows removing the now unused oldsize argument.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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In an effort to get more useful out of "possible memory
allocation deadlock" messages, print the size of the
requested allocation, and dump the stack if the xfs error
level is tuned high.
The stack dump is implemented in define_xfs_printk_level()
for error levels >= LOGLEVEL_ERR, partly because it
seems generically useful, and also because kmem.c has
no knowledge of xfs error level tunables or other such bits,
it's very kmem-specific.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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This patch adds comm name and pid to warning messages printed by
kmem_alloc(), kmem_zone_alloc() and xfs_buf_allocate_memory().
This will help telling which memory allocations (e.g. kernel worker
threads, OOM victim tasks, neither) are stalling because these functions
are passing __GFP_NOWARN which suppresses not only backtrace but comm name
and pid.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Change kmem_free to use kvfree() generic function, remove the
duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@sonymobile.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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The typedef for timespecs and nanotime() are completely unnecessary,
and delay() can be moved to fs/xfs/linux.h, which means this file
can go away.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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When we map pages in the buffer cache, we can do so in GFP_NOFS
contexts. However, the vmap interfaces do not provide any method of
communicating this information to memory reclaim, and hence we get
lockdep complaining about it regularly and occassionally see hangs
that may be vmap related reclaim deadlocks. We can also see these
same problems from anywhere where we use vmalloc for a large buffer
(e.g. attribute code) inside a transaction context.
A typical lockdep report shows up as a reclaim state warning like so:
[14046.101458] =================================
[14046.102850] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
[14046.102850] 3.14.0-rc4+ #2 Not tainted
[14046.102850] ---------------------------------
[14046.102850] inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
[14046.102850] kswapd0/14 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
[14046.102850] (&xfs_dir_ilock_class){++++?+}, at: [<791a04bb>] xfs_ilock+0xff/0x16a
[14046.102850] {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
[14046.102850] [<7904cdb1>] mark_held_locks+0x81/0xe7
[14046.102850] [<7904d390>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x5c/0xb4
[14046.102850] [<790c2c28>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2b/0x11e
[14046.102850] [<790ba7f4>] vm_map_ram+0x119/0x3e6
[14046.102850] [<7914e124>] _xfs_buf_map_pages+0x5b/0xcf
[14046.102850] [<7914ed74>] xfs_buf_get_map+0x67/0x13f
[14046.102850] [<7917506f>] xfs_attr_rmtval_set+0x396/0x4d5
[14046.102850] [<7916e8bb>] xfs_attr_leaf_addname+0x18f/0x37d
[14046.102850] [<7916ed9e>] xfs_attr_set_int+0x2f5/0x3e8
[14046.102850] [<7916eefc>] xfs_attr_set+0x6b/0x74
[14046.102850] [<79168355>] xfs_xattr_set+0x61/0x81
[14046.102850] [<790e5b10>] generic_setxattr+0x59/0x68
[14046.102850] [<790e4c06>] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x58/0xce
[14046.102850] [<790e4d0a>] vfs_setxattr+0x8e/0x92
[14046.102850] [<790e4ddd>] setxattr+0xcf/0x159
[14046.102850] [<790e5423>] SyS_lsetxattr+0x88/0xbb
[14046.102850] [<79268438>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
Now, we can't completely remove these traces - mainly because
vm_map_ram() will do GFP_KERNEL allocation and that generates the
above warning before we get into the reclaim code, but we can turn
them all into false positive warnings.
To do that, use the method that DM and other IO context code uses to
avoid this problem: there is a process flag to tell memory reclaim
not to do IO that we can set appropriately. That prevents GFP_KERNEL
context reclaim being done from deep inside the vmalloc code in
places we can't directly pass a GFP_NOFS context to. That interface
has a pair of wrapper functions: memalloc_noio_save() and
memalloc_noio_restore().
Adding them around vm_map_ram and the vzalloc call in
kmem_alloc_large() will prevent deadlocks and most lockdep reports
for this issue. Also, convert the vzalloc() call in
kmem_alloc_large() to use __vmalloc() so that we can pass the
correct gfp context to the data page allocation routine inside
__vmalloc() so that it is clear that GFP_NOFS context is important
to this vmalloc call.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Introduce flag KM_ZERO which is used to alloc zeroed entry, and convert
kmem_{zone_}zalloc to call kmem_{zone_}alloc() with KM_ZERO directly,
in order to avoid the setting to zero step.
And following Dave's suggestion, make kmem_{zone_}zalloc static inline
into kmem.h as they're now just a simple wrapper.
V2:
Make kmem_{zone_}zalloc static inline into kmem.h as Dave suggested.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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We have quite a few places now where we do:
x = kmem_zalloc(large size)
if (!x)
x = kmem_zalloc_large(large size)
and do a similar dance when freeing the memory. kmem_free() already
does the correct freeing dance, and kmem_zalloc_large() is only ever
called in these constructs, so just factor it all into
kmem_zalloc_large() and kmem_free().
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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