Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 01/13] bpf: Add support for non-fix-size percpu mem allocation

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 7:32 AM Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 08:27:34AM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> > This is needed for later percpu mem allocation when the
> > allocation is done by bpf program. For such cases, a global
> > bpf_global_percpu_ma is added where a flexible allocation
> > size is needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/bpf.h   |  4 ++--
> >  kernel/bpf/core.c     |  8 +++++---
> >  kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 14 ++++++--------
> >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> Both Marc and Mikhail reported out-of-memory conditions on s390 machines,
> and bisected it down to this upstream commit 41a5db8d8161 ("bpf: Add
> support for non-fix-size percpu mem allocation").
> This seems to eat up a lot of memory only based on the number of possible
> CPUs.
>
> If we have a machine with 8GB, 6 present CPUs and 512 possible CPUs (yes,
> this is a realistic scenario) the memory consumption directly after boot
> is:
>
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/present
> 0-5
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
> 0-511
>
> Before this commit:
>
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:        8141924 kB
> MemFree:         7639872 kB
>
> With this commit
>
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:        8141924 kB
> MemFree:         4852248 kB
>
> So, this appears to be a significant regression.
> I'm quoting the rest of the original patch below for reference only.

Yes. Sorry about this. The issue slipped through.
It's fixed in bpf tree by commit:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20231111013928.948838-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/

The fix will be sent to Linus soon.





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