From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
I hit the following question when run trinity in my system. The
kernel is 3.4 version. but the mainline have same question to be
solved. The root cause is the segment size is too large, it can
expand the most of the area or the whole memory, therefore, it
may waste an amount of time to abtain a useable page. and other
cases will block until the test case quit. at the some time,
OOM will come up.
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81106eac>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14c/0x8f0
[<ffffffff8124c2be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8124c2be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8124c2be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8124c2be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8124c2be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8113e5ef>] alloc_pages_current+0xaf/0x120
[<ffffffff810a0da0>] kimage_alloc_pages+0x10/0x60
[<ffffffff810a15ad>] kimage_alloc_control_pages+0x5d/0x270
[<ffffffff81027e85>] machine_kexec_prepare+0xe5/0x6c0
[<ffffffff810a0d52>] ? kimage_free_page_list+0x52/0x70
[<ffffffff810a1921>] sys_kexec_load+0x141/0x600
[<ffffffff8115e6b0>] ? vfs_write+0x100/0x180
[<ffffffff8145fbd9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The patch just add condition on sanity_check_segment_list to
restriction the segment size.
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kexec_core.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 56b3ed0..1f58824 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(struct kimage *image,
int sanity_check_segment_list(struct kimage *image)
{
int result, i;
+ unsigned long total_segments = 0;
unsigned long nr_segments = image->nr_segments;
/*
@@ -209,6 +210,21 @@ int sanity_check_segment_list(struct kimage *image)
return result;
}
+ /* Verity all segment size donnot exceed the specified size.
+ * if segment size from user space is too large, a large
+ * amount of time will be wasted when allocating page. so,
+ * softlockup may be come up.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
+ if (image->segment[i].memsz > (totalram_pages / 2))
+ return result;
+
+ total_segments += image->segment[i].memsz;
+ }
+
+ if (total_segments > (totalram_pages / 2))
+ return result;
+
/*
* Verify we have good destination addresses. Normally
* the caller is responsible for making certain we don't
--
1.8.3.1
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