Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated

Baoquan He
2022-08-03T15:32:49Z

On 08/03/22 at 05:05pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 03-08-22 22:59:26, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 08/03/22 at 11:52am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Fri 25-03-22 17:54:33, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Fri 25-03-22 17:48:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > > Dang, I have just realized that I have misread the boot log and it has
> > > > > > turned out that a674e48c5443 is covering my situation because the
> > > > > > allocation failure message says:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Node 0 DMA free:0kB boost:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:636kB managed:0kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
> > > > >
> > > > > As in your report is from a kernel that does not have a674e48c5443
> > > > > yet?
> > > >
> > > > yes. I just mixed up the early boot messages and thought that DMA zone
> > > > ended up with a single page. That message was saying something else
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > OK, so I have another machine spewing this warning. Still on an older
> > > kernel but I do not think the current upstream would be any different in
> > > that regards. This time the DMA zone is populated and consumed from
> > > large part and the pool size request is just too large for it:
> > >
> > > [ 14.017417][ T1] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:10, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-7
> > > [ 14.017429][ T1] CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.14.21-150400.22-default #1 SLE15-SP4 0b6a6578ade2de5c4a0b916095dff44f76ef1704
> > > [ 14.017434][ T1] Hardware name: XXXX
> > > [ 14.017437][ T1] Call Trace:
> > > [ 14.017444][ T1] <TASK>
> > > [ 14.017449][ T1] dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x57
> > > [ 14.017469][ T1] warn_alloc+0xfe/0x160
> > > [ 14.017490][ T1] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.112+0xc27/0xc60
> > > [ 14.017497][ T1] ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
> > > [ 14.017509][ T1] ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
> > > [ 14.017512][ T1] __alloc_pages+0x2d5/0x320
> > > [ 14.017517][ T1] alloc_page_interleave+0xf/0x70
> > > [ 14.017531][ T1] atomic_pool_expand+0x4a/0x200
> > > [ 14.017541][ T1] ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
> > > [ 14.017544][ T1] __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x44/0x90
> > > [ 14.017556][ T1] dma_atomic_pool_init+0xad/0x13f
> > > [ 14.017560][ T1] ? __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x90/0x90
> > > [ 14.017562][ T1] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x200
> > > [ 14.017581][ T1] kernel_init_freeable+0x236/0x298
> > > [ 14.017589][ T1] ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
> > > [ 14.017596][ T1] kernel_init+0x16/0x120
> > > [ 14.017599][ T1] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> > > [ 14.017604][ T1] </TASK>
> > > [...]
> > > [ 14.018026][ T1] Node 0 DMA free:160kB boost:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15996kB managed:15360kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
> > > [ 14.018035][ T1] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 0
> > > [ 14.018339][ T1] Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB (U) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 160kB
> > >
> > > So the DMA zone has only 160kB free while the pool would like to use 4MB
> > > of it which obviously fails. I haven't tried to check who is consuming
> > > the DMA zone memory and why but this shouldn't be all that important
> > > because the pool clearly cannot allocate and there is not much the
> > > user/admin can do about that. Well, the pool could be explicitly
> > > requested smaller but is that really what we expect them to do?
> > >
> > > > > > I thought there are only few pages in the managed by the DMA zone. This
> > > > > > is still theoretically possible so I think __GFP_NOWARN makes sense here
> > > > > > but it would require to change the patch description.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is this really worth it?
> > > > >
> > > > > In general I think for kernels where we need the pool and can't allocate
> > > > > it, a warning is very useful. We just shouldn't spew it when there is
> > > > > no need for the pool to start with.
> > > >
> > > > Well, do we have any way to find that out during early boot?
> > >
> > > Thinking about it. We should get a warning when the actual allocation
> > > from the pool fails no? That would be more useful information than the
> > > pre-allocation failure when it is not really clear whether anybody is
> > > ever going to consume it.
> >
> > Hi Michal,
> >
> > You haven't told on which ARCH you met this issue, is it x86_64?
>
> yes x86_64, so a small 16MB DMA zone.

Yeah, the 16M DMA zone is redicilous and exists only for hardly seen
ISA-style devices support. Haven't prepared the log well.

From 0b32b4c441f9e28bbda06eefbd14c25d00924830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 15:26:15 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86, 64: let zone DMA cover low 4G if no ISA-style devices
Content-type: text/plain

It doesn't make sense to let the rare legacy ISA-style devies
drag x86_64 to have a tiny zone DMA of 16M which cause many
troubles.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/x86/mm/init.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5aa4c2ecf5c7..93af781f9445 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2761,7 +2761,6 @@ config ISA_BUS
# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA.
config ISA_DMA_API
bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT)
- default y
help
Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers.
If unsure, say Y.
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 82a042c03824..c9ffb38dcc6a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -1024,9 +1024,12 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void)

memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));

-#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+#if defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && defined(CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API)
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = min(MAX_DMA_PFN, max_low_pfn);
+#else
+ max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = min(MAX_DMA32_PFN, max_low_pfn);
#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = min(MAX_DMA32_PFN, max_low_pfn);
#endif
--
2.34.1