From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Nishanth Aravamudan , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: [ 050/110] powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table() Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:38:30 -0700 Message-Id: <20131011193813.261097713@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20131011193807.584188672@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131011193807.584188672@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nishanth Aravamudan commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream. Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table(): page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2 allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths, but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate. With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to reproduce the panic. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(str /* number of bytes needed for the bitmap */ sz = BITS_TO_LONGS(tbl->it_size) * sizeof(unsigned long); - page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); + page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_KERNEL, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); tbl->it_map = page_address(page);