On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:46:44AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:41:28PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:04:12PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:28:40PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > > > With this we run into 0 wasted virtual memory bytes. > > > > > > > > Avoid what duplicates? > > > > > > David Hildenbrand had reported that with over 400 CPUs vmap space > > > runs out and it seems it was related to module loading. I took a > > > look and confirmed it. Module loading ends up requiring in the > > > worst case 3 vmalloc allocations, so typically at least twice > > > the size of the module size and in the worst case just add > > > the decompressed module size: > > > > > > a) initial kernel_read*() call > > > b) optional module decompression > > > c) the actual module data copy we will keep > > > > > > Duplicate module requests that come from userspace end up being thrown > > > in the trash bin, as only one module will be allocated. Although there > > > are checks for a module prior to requesting a module udev still doesn't > > > do the best of a job to avoid that and so we end up with tons of > > > duplicate module requests. We're talking about gigabytes of vmalloc > > > bytes just lost because of this for large systems and megabytes for > > > average systems. So for example with just 255 CPUs we can loose about > > > 13.58 GiB, and for 8 CPUs about 226.53 MiB. > > > > How does the memory get "lost"? Shouldn't it be properly freed when the > > duplicate module load fails? > > Yes memory gets freed, but since virtual memory space can be limitted it > also means you can end up eventually getting to the point -ENOMEMs will > happen as you have more CPUS and you cannot use virtual memory for other > things during kernel bootup and bootup fails. This is apparently > exacerbated with KASAN enabled. Then why not just rate-limit the module loader in userspace on such large systems if that's an issue? No kernel changes needed to do that. thanks, greg k-h
