From: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
To: ben.horgan@arm.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
Dave.Martin@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, babu.moger@amd.com,
fenghuay@nvidia.com, bp@alien8.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] fs/resctrl: Allocate rmid_ptrs[] using kvzalloc_objs()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:23:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710112322.25516-1-ben.horgan@arm.com> (raw)
On an MPAM system the number of entries in rmid_ptrs[] is the number of PARTIDs
multiplied by the number of PMGs. The maximum possible number of PARTIDs is
0x10000 and the maximum number of PMGs is 0x100. On a system pushing the limits
of the MPAM specification this can be large enough to consistently fail the
kzalloc_objs() allocation and hence fail to mount the resctrl filesystem.
Switch to allocating rmid_ptrs[] using kvzalloc_objs() so that large allocations
fall back to vmalloc().
Fixes: 7168ae330e81 ("x86,fs/resctrl: Move the resctrl filesystem code to live in /fs/resctrl")
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
---
I found this by testing the extremes of a software model and don't expect this
to effect real systems.
---
fs/resctrl/monitor.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/resctrl/monitor.c b/fs/resctrl/monitor.c
index a932a1fea818..b0c588f21de8 100644
--- a/fs/resctrl/monitor.c
+++ b/fs/resctrl/monitor.c
@@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ int setup_rmid_lru_list(void)
return 0;
idx_limit = resctrl_arch_system_num_rmid_idx();
- rmid_ptrs = kzalloc_objs(struct rmid_entry, idx_limit);
+ rmid_ptrs = kvzalloc_objs(struct rmid_entry, idx_limit);
if (!rmid_ptrs)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ void free_rmid_lru_list(void)
return;
mutex_lock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
- kfree(rmid_ptrs);
+ kvfree(rmid_ptrs);
rmid_ptrs = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-10 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 11:23 Ben Horgan [this message]
2026-07-10 15:42 ` [PATCH v1] fs/resctrl: Allocate rmid_ptrs[] using kvzalloc_objs() Luck, Tony
2026-07-13 9:16 ` Ben Horgan
2026-08-20 23:25 ` Reinette Chatre
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