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authorJoel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>2017-07-12 19:14:16 -0700
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2017-07-19 08:22:12 -0400
commit848618857d2535176037bdc085f8d012d907071f (patch)
tree2d251e7c70404119716aa9a999d60239b78f6d3a /kernel
parent5771a8c08880cdca3bfb4a3fc6d309d6bba20877 (diff)
tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate
ftrace can fail to allocate per-CPU ring buffer on systems with a large number of CPUs coupled while large amounts of cache happening in the page cache. Currently the ring buffer allocation doesn't retry in the VM implementation even if direct-reclaim made some progress but still wasn't able to find a free page. On retrying I see that the allocations almost always succeed. The retry doesn't happen because __GFP_NORETRY is used in the tracer to prevent the case where we might OOM, however if we drop __GFP_NORETRY, we risk destabilizing the system if OOM killer is triggered. To prevent this situation, use the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag introduced recently [1]. Tested the following still succeeds without destabilizing a system with 1GB memory. echo 300000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149820805124906&w=2 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170713021416.8897-1-joelaf@google.com Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 4ae268e687fe..529cc50d7243 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1136,12 +1136,12 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages, int cpu)
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page;
/*
- * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation fails
- * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is
- * not destabilized.
+ * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag makes sure that the allocation fails
+ * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is not
+ * destabilized.
*/
bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage), cache_line_size()),
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!bpage)
goto free_pages;
@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages, int cpu)
list_add(&bpage->list, pages);
page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, 0);
if (!page)
goto free_pages;
bpage->page = page_address(page);