On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:51:26AM +0000, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> KVM guest can fail to startup with following trace on host:
>
> qemu-system-x86: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40d0
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack+0x47/0x67
> warn_alloc_failed+0xee/0x150
> __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x14a/0x150
> __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x776/0xb80
> alloc_kmem_pages+0x3a/0x110
> kmalloc_order+0x13/0x50
> kmemdup+0x1b/0x40
> __kvm_set_memory_region+0x24a/0x9f0 [kvm]
> kvm_set_ioapic+0x130/0x130 [kvm]
> kvm_set_memory_region+0x21/0x40 [kvm]
> kvm_vm_ioctl+0x43f/0x750 [kvm]
>
> Failure happens when attempting to allocate pages for
> 'struct kvm_memslots', however it doesn't have to be
> present in physically contiguous (kmalloc-ed) address
> space, change allocation to kvm_kvzalloc() so that
> it will be vmalloc-ed when its size is more then a page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Igor, two things:
1) kvm_create_vm should also use vmalloc
r = -ENOMEM;
kvm->memslots = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kvm->memslots)
goto out_err_no_srcu;
2) there are additional places where its necessary to use
proper freeing function, i believe:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index ce7888a..651ff2d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ out_err_no_srcu:
out_err_no_disable:
for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++)
kfree(kvm->buses[i]);
- kfree(kvm->memslots);
+ kvfree(kvm->memslots);
kvm_arch_free_vm(kvm);
return ERR_PTR(r);
}
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ static void kvm_free_physmem(struct kvm *kvm)
kvm_for_each_memslot(memslot, slots)
kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, memslot, NULL);
- kfree(kvm->memslots);
+ kvfree(kvm->memslots);
}
static void kvm_destroy_devices(struct kvm *kvm)
@@ -909,7 +922,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(kvm, mem, &old, change);
kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, &old, &new);
- kfree(old_memslots);
+ kvfree(old_memslots);
/*
* IOMMU mapping: New slots need to be mapped. Old slots need to be
> ---
> TODO:
> - work on follow up patches to allocate space for
> actual amount of memory_slots instead of possible maximum.
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index a2214d9..7ed1f5c 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -871,10 +871,10 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
> goto out_free;
> }
>
> - slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
> if (!slots)
> goto out_free;
> + memcpy(slots, kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
>
> if ((change == KVM_MR_DELETE) || (change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) {
> slot = id_to_memslot(slots, mem->slot);
> @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
> return 0;
>
> out_slots:
> - kfree(slots);
> + kvfree(slots);
> out_free:
> kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, &new, &old);
> out:
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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