Re: kvm_intel: Could not allocate 42 bytes percpu data

[Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>]

On 06/24/2013 03:01 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Lots (~700+) of the following messages are showing up in the dmesg of a 3.10-rc1
> based kernel (Host OS is running on a large socket count box with HT-on).
> 
> [   82.270682] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=42 align=16, alloc from reserved
> chunk failed
> [   82.272633] kvm_intel: Could not allocate 42 bytes percpu data

On 3.10?  Geez.  I thought we had fixed this.  I'll grab a big machine and see
if I can debug.

Rusty -- any ideas off the top of your head?'
> 
> ... also call traces like the following...
> 
> [  101.852136]  ffffc901ad5aa090 ffff88084675dd08 ffffffff81633743 ffff88084675ddc8
> [  101.860889]  ffffffff81145053 ffffffff81f3fa78 ffff88084809dd40 ffff8907d1cfd2e8
> [  101.869466]  ffff8907d1cfd280 ffff88087fffdb08 ffff88084675c010 ffff88084675dfd8
> [  101.878190] Call Trace:
> [  101.880953]  [<ffffffff81633743>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1e
> [  101.886679]  [<ffffffff81145053>] pcpu_alloc+0x9a3/0xa40
> [  101.892754]  [<ffffffff81145103>] __alloc_reserved_percpu+0x13/0x20
> [  101.899733]  [<ffffffff810b2d7f>] load_module+0x35f/0x1a70
> [  101.905835]  [<ffffffff8163ad6e>] ? do_page_fault+0xe/0x10
> [  101.911953]  [<ffffffff810b467b>] SyS_init_module+0xfb/0x140
> [  101.918287]  [<ffffffff8163f542>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [  101.924981] kvm_intel: Could not allocate 42 bytes percpu data
> 
> 
> Wondering if anyone else has seen this with the recent [3.10] based kernels esp.
> on larger boxes?
> 
> There was a similar issue that was reported earlier (where modules were being
> loaded per cpu without checking if an instance was already loaded/being-loaded).
> That issue seems to have been addressed in the recent past (e.g.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/24/659 along with a couple of follow on cleanups)  
> Is the above yet another variant of the original issue or perhaps some race
> condition that got exposed when there are lot more threads ?

Hmm ... not sure but yeah, that's the likely culprit.

P.