On extreme configuration (e.g. 32bit 32-way NUMA machine), lpage percpu first chunk allocator can consume too much of vmalloc space. Make it fall back to 4k allocator if the consumption goes over 20%. [ Impact: add sanity check for lpage percpu first chunk allocator ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c index 165ebd5..29a3eef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c @@ -163,9 +163,21 @@ static ssize_t __init setup_pcpu_lpage(size_t static_size, bool chosen) int i, j; ssize_t ret; - /* on non-NUMA, embedding is better */ - if (!chosen && !pcpu_need_numa()) - return -EINVAL; + if (!chosen) { + size_t vm_size = VMALLOC_END - VMALLOC_START; + size_t tot_size = num_possible_cpus() * PMD_SIZE; + + /* on non-NUMA, embedding is better */ + if (!pcpu_need_numa()) + return -EINVAL; + + /* don't consume more than 20% of vmalloc area */ + if (tot_size > vm_size / 5) { + pr_info("PERCPU: too large chunk size %zuMB for " + "large page remap\n", tot_size >> 20); + return -EINVAL; + } + } /* need PSE */ if (!cpu_has_pse) { -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html