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authorDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-05-24 17:12:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:39:22 -0700
commit22943ab116af1ead4dc112ec408a93cf1365b34a (patch)
tree97fcfd64dc06ac9b60fb48c0cd331249fb96f13d /mm
parenta238ab5b0239575c179f4976064192c3f7409dad (diff)
mm: print vmalloc() state after allocation failures
I was tracking down a page allocation failure that ended up in vmalloc(). Since vmalloc() uses 0-order pages, if somebody asks for an insane amount of memory, we'll still get a warning with "order:0" in it. That's not very useful. During recovery, vmalloc() also nicely frees all of the memory that it got up to the point of the failure. That is wonderful, but it also quickly hides any issues. We have a much different sitation if vmalloc() repeatedly fails 10GB in to: vmalloc(100 * 1<<30); versus repeatedly failing 4096 bytes in to a: vmalloc(8192); This patch will print out messages that look like this: [ 68.123503] vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 6680576 of 13426688 bytes [ 68.124218] bash: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2 [ 68.124811] Pid: 3770, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.39-rc3-00082-g85f2e68-dirty #333 [ 68.125579] Call Trace: [ 68.125853] [<ffffffff810f6da6>] warn_alloc_failed+0x146/0x170 [ 68.126464] [<ffffffff8107e05c>] ? printk+0x6c/0x70 [ 68.126791] [<ffffffff8112b5d4>] ? alloc_pages_current+0x94/0xe0 [ 68.127661] [<ffffffff8111ed37>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x237/0x290 ... The 'order' variable is added for clarity when calling warn_alloc_failed() to avoid having an unexplained '0' as an argument. The 'tmp_mask' is because adding an open-coded '| __GFP_NOWARN' would take us over 80 columns for the alloc_pages_node() call. If we are going to add a line, it might as well be one that makes the sucker easier to read. As a side issue, I also noticed that ctl_ioctl() does vmalloc() based solely on an unverified value passed in from userspace. Granted, it's under CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but it still frightens me a bit. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4581ddcdda5..b5ccf3158d8 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1534,6 +1534,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
pgprot_t prot, int node, void *caller)
{
+ const int order = 0;
struct page **pages;
unsigned int nr_pages, array_size, i;
gfp_t nested_gfp = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | __GFP_ZERO;
@@ -1560,11 +1561,12 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page;
+ gfp_t tmp_mask = gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN;
if (node < 0)
- page = alloc_page(gfp_mask);
+ page = alloc_page(tmp_mask);
else
- page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, 0);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(node, tmp_mask, order);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
/* Successfully allocated i pages, free them in __vunmap() */
@@ -1579,6 +1581,9 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
return area->addr;
fail:
+ warn_alloc_failed(gfp_mask, order, "vmalloc: allocation failure, "
+ "allocated %ld of %ld bytes\n",
+ (area->nr_pages*PAGE_SIZE), area->size);
vfree(area->addr);
return NULL;
}