Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 02-03-17 19:04:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> [...]
> > So, commit 5d17a73a2ebeb8d1("vmalloc: back off when the current task is
> > killed") implemented __GFP_KILLABLE flag and automatically applied that
> > flag. As a result, those who are not ready to fail upon SIGKILL are
> > confused. ;-)
>
> You are right! The function is documented it might fail but the code
> doesn't really allow that. This seems like a bug to me. What do you
> think about the following?
Yes, I think this patch is correct. Maybe
-May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
+May fail.
together, for it is always vmalloc()ed memory.
> ---
> From d02cb0285d8ce3344fd64dc7e2912e9a04bef80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 11:31:11 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] xfs: allow kmem_zalloc_greedy to fail
>
> Even though kmem_zalloc_greedy is documented it might fail the current
> code doesn't really implement this properly and loops on the smallest
> allowed size for ever. This is a problem because vzalloc might fail
> permanently. Since 5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current
> task is killed") such a failure is much more probable than it used to
> be. Fix this by bailing out if the minimum size request failed.
>
> This has been noticed by a hung generic/269 xfstest by Xiong Zhou.
>
> Reported-by: Xiong Zhou <xzhou@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Analyzed-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/xfs/kmem.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> index 339c696bbc01..ee95f5c6db45 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
> size_t kmsize = maxsize;
>
> while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
> + if (kmsize == minsize)
> + break;
> if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
> kmsize = minsize;
> }
> --
> 2.11.0
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>
