Currently the bcache internal btree node occupies a whole bucket. When loading the btree node from cache device into memory, mca_data_alloc() will call bch_btree_keys_alloc() to allocate memory for the whole bucket size, ilog2(b->c->btree_pages) is send to bch_btree_keys_alloc() as the parameter 'page_order'. c->btree_pages is set as bucket_pages() in bch_cache_set_alloc(), for bucket size > 8MB, ilog2(b->c->btree_pages) is 12 for 4KB page size. By default the maximum page order __get_free_pages() accepts is MAX_ORDER (11), in this condition bch_btree_keys_alloc() will always fail. Because of other over-page-order allocation failure fails the cache device registration, such btree node allocation failure wasn't observed during runtime. After other blocking page allocation failures for bucket size > 8MB, this btree node allocation issue may trigger potentical risk e.g. infinite dead-loop to retry btree node allocation after failure. This patch fixes the potential problem by setting c->btree_pages to meta_bucket_pages() in bch_cache_set_alloc(). In the condition that bucket size > 8MB, meta_bucket_pages() will always return a number which won't exceed the maximum page order of the buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index b0e23012d6c1..2da6d5aa8c63 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -1860,7 +1860,7 @@ struct cache_set *bch_cache_set_alloc(struct cache_sb *sb) c->nr_uuids = meta_bucket_bytes(&c->sb) / sizeof(struct uuid_entry); c->devices_max_used = 0; atomic_set(&c->attached_dev_nr, 0); - c->btree_pages = bucket_pages(c); + c->btree_pages = meta_bucket_pages(&c->sb); if (c->btree_pages > BTREE_MAX_PAGES) c->btree_pages = max_t(int, c->btree_pages / 4, BTREE_MAX_PAGES); -- 2.26.2