In kdump kernel of x86_64, page allocation failure is observed:
kworker/u2:2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
CPU: 0 PID: 55 Comm: kworker/u2:2 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc4+ #5
Hardware name: AMD Dinar/Dinar, BIOS RDN1505B 06/05/2013
Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e
warn_alloc.cold+0x72/0xd6
__alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xc69/0xcd0
__alloc_pages+0x1df/0x210
new_slab+0x389/0x4d0
___slab_alloc+0x58f/0x770
__slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x4a/0x80
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x24b/0x2c0
sr_probe+0x1db/0x620
......
device_add+0x405/0x920
......
__scsi_add_device+0xe5/0x100
ata_scsi_scan_host+0x97/0x1d0
async_run_entry_fn+0x30/0x130
process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0
worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0
? rescuer_thread+0x350/0x350
kthread+0x16b/0x190
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>
Mem-Info:
......
The above failure happened when calling kmalloc() to allocate buffer with
GFP_DMA. It requests to allocate slab page from DMA zone while no managed
pages at all in there.
sr_probe()
--> get_capabilities()
--> buffer = kmalloc(512, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
Because in the current kernel, dma-kmalloc will be created as long as
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is enabled. However, kdump kernel of x86_64 doesn't have
managed pages on DMA zone since commit 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always
reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified"). The failure
can be always reproduced.
For now, let's mute the warning of allocation failure if requesting pages
from DMA zone while no managed pages.
Fixes: 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7c7a0b5de2ff..843bc8e5550a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4204,7 +4204,8 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...)
va_list args;
static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, 10*HZ, 1);
- if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs))
+ if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs) ||
+ (gfp_mask & __GFP_DMA) && !has_managed_dma())
return;
va_start(args, fmt);
--
2.26.3
