[PATCH 4.19 156/267] net: qed*: Reduce RX and TX default ring count when running inside kdump kernel

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-19T16:20:54Z

From: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 73e030977f7884dbe1be0018bab517e8d02760f8 ]

Normally kdump kernel(s) run under severe memory constraint with the
basic idea being to save the crashdump vmcore reliably when the primary
kernel panics/hangs.

Currently the qed* ethernet driver ends up consuming a lot of memory in
the kdump kernel, leading to kdump kernel panic when one tries to save
the vmcore via ssh/nfs (thus utilizing the services of the underlying
qed* network interfaces).

An example OOM message log seen in the kdump kernel can be seen here
[1], with crashkernel size reservation of 512M.

Using tools like memstrack (see [2]), we can track the modules taking up
the bulk of memory in the kdump kernel and organize the memory usage
output as per 'highest allocator first'. An example log for the OOM case
indicates that the qed* modules end up allocating approximately 216M
memory, which is a large part of the total crashkernel size:

dracut-pre-pivot[676]: ======== Report format module_summary: ========
dracut-pre-pivot[676]: Module qed using 149.6MB (2394 pages), peak allocation 149.6MB (2394 pages)
dracut-pre-pivot[676]: Module qede using 65.3MB (1045 pages), peak allocation 65.3MB (1045 pages)

This patch reduces the default RX and TX ring count from 1024 to 64
when running inside kdump kernel, which leads to a significant memory
saving.

An example log with the patch applied shows the reduced memory
allocation in the kdump kernel:
dracut-pre-pivot[674]: ======== Report format module_summary: ========
dracut-pre-pivot[674]: Module qed using 141.8MB (2268 pages), peak allocation 141.8MB (2268 pages)
<..snip..>
[dracut-pre-pivot[674]: Module qede using 4.8MB (76 pages), peak allocation 4.9MB (78 pages)

Tested crashdump vmcore save via ssh/nfs protocol using underlying qed*
network interface after applying this patch.

[1] OOM log:
------------

kworker/0:6: page allocation failure: order:6,
mode:0x60c0c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null)
kworker/0:6 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
CPU: 0 PID: 145 Comm: kworker/0:6 Not tainted 4.18.0-109.el8.aarch64 #1
Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. Saber/Saber, BIOS 0ACKL025
01/18/2019
Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x188
show_stack+0x24/0x30
dump_stack+0x90/0xb4
warn_alloc+0xf4/0x178
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xcac/0xd58
alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0xf8
kmalloc_order_trace+0x38/0x108
qed_iov_alloc+0x40/0x248 [qed]
qed_resc_alloc+0x224/0x518 [qed]
qed_slowpath_start+0x254/0x928 [qed]
__qede_probe+0xf8/0x5e0 [qede]
qede_probe+0x68/0xd8 [qede]
local_pci_probe+0x44/0xa8
work_for_cpu_fn+0x20/0x30
process_one_work+0x1ac/0x3e8
worker_thread+0x44/0x448
kthread+0x130/0x138
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
Cannot start slowpath
qede: probe of 0000:05:00.1 failed with error -12

[2]. Memstrack tool: https://github.com/ryncsn/memstrack

Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>
Cc: GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com
Cc: Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h | 2 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c | 11 +++++++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h
index dc3be8a4acf4..2bdc410d1144 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h
@@ -550,12 +550,14 @@ int qede_add_tc_flower_fltr(struct qede_dev *edev, __be16 proto,
#define RX_RING_SIZE ((u16)BIT(RX_RING_SIZE_POW))
#define NUM_RX_BDS_MAX (RX_RING_SIZE - 1)
#define NUM_RX_BDS_MIN 128
+#define NUM_RX_BDS_KDUMP_MIN 63
#define NUM_RX_BDS_DEF ((u16)BIT(10) - 1)

#define TX_RING_SIZE_POW 13
#define TX_RING_SIZE ((u16)BIT(TX_RING_SIZE_POW))
#define NUM_TX_BDS_MAX (TX_RING_SIZE - 1)
#define NUM_TX_BDS_MIN 128
+#define NUM_TX_BDS_KDUMP_MIN 63
#define NUM_TX_BDS_DEF NUM_TX_BDS_MAX

#define QEDE_MIN_PKT_LEN 64
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
index 0d8e39ffbcd1..1aabb2e7a38b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
* CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
* SOFTWARE.
*/
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
@@ -730,8 +731,14 @@ static struct qede_dev *qede_alloc_etherdev(struct qed_dev *cdev,
edev->dp_module = dp_module;
edev->dp_level = dp_level;
edev->ops = qed_ops;
- edev->q_num_rx_buffers = NUM_RX_BDS_DEF;
- edev->q_num_tx_buffers = NUM_TX_BDS_DEF;
+
+ if (is_kdump_kernel()) {
+ edev->q_num_rx_buffers = NUM_RX_BDS_KDUMP_MIN;
+ edev->q_num_tx_buffers = NUM_TX_BDS_KDUMP_MIN;
+ } else {
+ edev->q_num_rx_buffers = NUM_RX_BDS_DEF;
+ edev->q_num_tx_buffers = NUM_TX_BDS_DEF;
+ }

DP_INFO(edev, "Allocated netdev with %d tx queues and %d rx queues\n",
info->num_queues, info->num_queues);
--
2.25.1