In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like: test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *): Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed. where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling the warnings, we saw: [ 91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left [ 91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7 [ 91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023 [ 91.304721] Call Trace: [ 91.304724] <TASK> [ 91.304730] [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88 [ 91.304737] [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18 [ 91.304738] [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870 [ 91.304741] [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20 [ 91.304743] [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0 [ 91.304746] [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0 [ 91.304747] [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650 [ 91.304750] [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0 [ 91.304752] [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0 [ 91.304753] [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30 [ 91.304754] [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80 [ 91.304756] [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts. This series attempts to add ways where the allocation could occur non-atomically, allowing the allocator to take mutexes, perform IO, and/or sleep. Patch 1 addresses the prefill case. Since prefill already runs in sleepable context this is simply just conditionally adding GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOWAIT. Patch 2 addresses the refill case. Since refill always runs in atomic context, we instead add workqueue work to perform non-atomic allocation when the atomic attempt failed. YiFei Zhu (2): bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill bpf/memalloc: Schedule highprio wq for non-atomic alloc when atomic fails kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- 2.41.0.487.g6d72f3e995-goog