From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp04.au.ibm.com (e23smtp04.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37C481413BE for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 01:55:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp04.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 7 May 2014 01:55:52 +1000 Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.152]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961C52BB004A for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 01:55:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s46FYWnE52559944 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 01:34:32 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s46FtnLi030508 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 01:55:50 +1000 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: agraf@suse.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: [PATCH V2] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Prefer CMA region for hash page table allocation Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:24:18 +0530 Message-Id: <1399391658-1308-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Today when KVM tries to reserve memory for the hash page table it allocates from the normal page allocator first. If that fails it falls back to CMA's reserved region. One of the side effects of this is that we could end up exhausting the page allocator and get linux into OOM conditions while we still have plenty of space available in CMA. This patch addresses this issue by first trying hash page table allocation from CMA's reserved region before falling back to the normal page allocator. So if we run out of memory, we really are out of memory. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V --- * Changes from V1 * Update commit message arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 23 ++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c index fb25ebc0af0c..f32896ffd784 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static void kvmppc_rmap_reset(struct kvm *kvm); long kvmppc_alloc_hpt(struct kvm *kvm, u32 *htab_orderp) { - unsigned long hpt; + unsigned long hpt = 0; struct revmap_entry *rev; struct page *page = NULL; long order = KVM_DEFAULT_HPT_ORDER; @@ -64,22 +64,11 @@ long kvmppc_alloc_hpt(struct kvm *kvm, u32 *htab_orderp) } kvm->arch.hpt_cma_alloc = 0; - /* - * try first to allocate it from the kernel page allocator. - * We keep the CMA reserved for failed allocation. - */ - hpt = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT | - __GFP_NOWARN, order - PAGE_SHIFT); - - /* Next try to allocate from the preallocated pool */ - if (!hpt) { - VM_BUG_ON(order < KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER); - page = kvm_alloc_hpt(1 << (order - PAGE_SHIFT)); - if (page) { - hpt = (unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page)); - kvm->arch.hpt_cma_alloc = 1; - } else - --order; + VM_BUG_ON(order < KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER); + page = kvm_alloc_hpt(1 << (order - PAGE_SHIFT)); + if (page) { + hpt = (unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page)); + kvm->arch.hpt_cma_alloc = 1; } /* Lastly try successively smaller sizes from the page allocator */ -- 1.9.1