Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/vmalloc.c: Fix percpu free VM area search criteria

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On 7/30/19 1:54 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 7/30/19 1:46 PM, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
+		/*
+		 * If required width exeeds current VA block, move
+		 * base downwards and then recheck.
+		 */
+		if (base + end > va->va_end) {
+			base = pvm_determine_end_from_reverse(&va, align) - end;
+			term_area = area;
+			continue;
+		}
+
  		/*
  		 * If this VA does not fit, move base downwards and recheck.
  		 */
-		if (base + start < va->va_start || base + end > va->va_end) {
+		if (base + start < va->va_start) {
  			va = node_to_va(rb_prev(&va->rb_node));
  			base = pvm_determine_end_from_reverse(&va, align) - end;
  			term_area = area;
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2.21.0

I guess it is NUMA related issue, i mean when we have several
areas/sizes/offsets. Is that correct?
I don't think NUMA has anything to do with it.  The vmalloc() area
itself doesn't have any NUMA properties I can think of.  We don't, for
instance, partition it into per-node areas that I know of.

I did encounter this issue on a system with ~100 logical CPUs, which is
a moderate amount these days.

I agree with Dave. I don't think this issue is related to NUMA. The problem here is about the logic we use to find appropriate vm_area that satisfies the offset and size requirements of pcpu memory allocator.

In my test case, I can reproduce this issue if we make request with offset (ffff000000) and size (600000).


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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux kernel developer




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