From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2AF6B0093 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:59:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocations in __vmalloc(). From: "Ricardo M. Correia" In-Reply-To: <1292381126-5710-1-git-send-email-ricardo.correia@oracle.com> References: <1292381126-5710-1-git-send-email-ricardo.correia@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:53:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1292381600.2994.6.camel@oralap> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, andreas.dilger@oracle.com, behlendorf1@llnl.gov List-ID: On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 03:45 +0100, Ricardo M. Correia wrote: > (Patch based on 2.6.36 tag). > > These GFP_KERNEL allocations could happen even though the caller of __vmalloc() > requested a stricter gfp mask (such as GFP_NOFS or GFP_ATOMIC). Sorry for taking a while to write this patch. For the discussion behind it, you can read: http://marc.info/?t=128942209500002&r=1&w=2 Please note that I have only tested this patch on my laptop (x86-64) with one Kconfig. Since I have done all these changes manually and I don't have any non-x86-64 machines, it's possible that I may have typoed or missed something and that this patch may break compilation on other architectures or with other config options. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Ricardo > This was first noticed in Lustre, where it led to deadlocks due to a filesystem > thread which requested a GFP_NOFS __vmalloc() allocation ended up calling down > to Lustre itself to free memory, despite this not being allowed by GFP_NOFS. > > Further analysis showed that some in-tree filesystems (namely GFS, Ceph and XFS) > were vulnerable to the same bug due to calling __vmalloc() or vm_map_ram() in > contexts where __GFP_FS allocations are not allowed. > > Fixing this bug required changing a few mm interfaces to accept gfp flags. > This needed to be done in all architectures, thus the large number of changes. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org