On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:35:28PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses > it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records. The infinite loop in > the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so > just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large. > This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no > pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs. > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: remove single-page fallback > --- Since this fixes a hang how about *at the very least* a respective Fixes tag ? This fixes an existing hang so what are the stable considerations here ? I realize the answer is not easy but figured its worth asking. FWIW I trace kmem_zalloc_greedy()'s introduction back to 2006 77e4635ae1917 ("[XFS] Add a greedy allocation interface, allocating within a min/max size range.") through v2.6.19 days... Luis
