On 05/25/2018 10:23 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Qing Huang <qing.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:22:46 -0700
>
>> When a system is under memory presure (high usage with fragments),
>> the original 256KB ICM chunk allocations will likely trigger kernel
>> memory management to enter slow path doing memory compact/migration
>> ops in order to complete high order memory allocations.
>>
>> When that happens, user processes calling uverb APIs may get stuck
>> for more than 120s easily even though there are a lot of free pages
>> in smaller chunks available in the system.
>>
>> Syslog:
>> ...
>> Dec 10 09:04:51 slcc03db02 kernel: [397078.572732] INFO: task
>> oracle_205573_e:205573 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>> ...
>>
>> With 4KB ICM chunk size on x86_64 arch, the above issue is fixed.
>>
>> However in order to support smaller ICM chunk size, we need to fix
>> another issue in large size kcalloc allocations.
>>
>> E.g.
>> Setting log_num_mtt=30 requires 1G mtt entries. With the 4KB ICM chunk
>> size, each ICM chunk can only hold 512 mtt entries (8 bytes for each mtt
>> entry). So we need a 16MB allocation for a table->icm pointer array to
>> hold 2M pointers which can easily cause kcalloc to fail.
>>
>> The solution is to use kvzalloc to replace kcalloc which will fall back
>> to vmalloc automatically if kmalloc fails.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qing Huang <qing.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
I must say this patch causes regressions here.
KASAN is not happy.
It looks that you guys did not really looked at mlx4_alloc_icm()
This function is properly handling high order allocations with fallbacks to order-0 pages
under high memory pressure.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in to_rdma_ah_attr+0x808/0x9e0 [mlx4_ib]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8817df584f68 by task qp_listing_test/92585
CPU: 38 PID: 92585 Comm: qp_listing_test Tainted: G O
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffba80d7bb>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x72
[<ffffffffb951dc5f>] print_address_description+0x6f/0x260
[<ffffffffb951e1c7>] kasan_report+0x257/0x370
[<ffffffffb951e339>] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffffc0256d28>] to_rdma_ah_attr+0x808/0x9e0 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffffc02785b3>] mlx4_ib_query_qp+0x1213/0x1660 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffffc02dbfdb>] qpstat_print_qp+0x13b/0x500 [ib_uverbs]
[<ffffffffc02dc3ea>] qpstat_seq_show+0x4a/0xb0 [ib_uverbs]
[<ffffffffb95f125c>] seq_read+0xa9c/0x1230
[<ffffffffb96e0821>] proc_reg_read+0xc1/0x180
[<ffffffffb9577918>] __vfs_read+0xe8/0x730
[<ffffffffb9578057>] vfs_read+0xf7/0x300
[<ffffffffb95794d2>] SyS_read+0xd2/0x1b0
[<ffffffffb8e06b16>] do_syscall_64+0x186/0x420
[<ffffffffbaa00071>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
RIP: 0033:0x7f851a7bb30d
RSP: 002b:00007ffd09a758c0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f84ff959440 RCX: 00007f851a7bb30d
RDX: 000000000003fc00 RSI: 00007f84ff60a000 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007ffd09a75900 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000003ffff R14: 000000000003ffff R15: 00007f84ff60a000
Allocated by task 4488:
save_stack+0x46/0xd0
kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0
__kmalloc+0x101/0x5e0
ib_register_device+0xc03/0x1250 [ib_core]
mlx4_ib_add+0x27d6/0x4dd0 [mlx4_ib]
mlx4_add_device+0xa9/0x340 [mlx4_core]
mlx4_register_interface+0x16e/0x390 [mlx4_core]
xhci_pci_remove+0x7a/0x180 [xhci_pci]
do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x230
do_init_module+0x1b9/0x5a4
load_module+0x63e6/0x94c0
SYSC_init_module+0x1a4/0x1c0
SyS_init_module+0xe/0x10
do_syscall_64+0x186/0x420
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
Freed by task 0:
(stack is not available)
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8817df584f40
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32
The buggy address is located 8 bytes to the right of
32-byte region [ffff8817df584f40, ffff8817df584f60)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea005f7d6100 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8817df584000 index:0xffff8817df584fc1
flags: 0x880000000000100(slab)
raw: 0880000000000100 ffff8817df584000 ffff8817df584fc1 000000010000003f
raw: ffffea005f3ac0a0 ffffea005c476760 ffff8817fec00900 ffff883ff78d26c0
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page->mem_cgroup:ffff883ff78d26c0
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8817df584e00: 00 03 fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 03 fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8817df584e80: 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8817df584f00: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
^
ffff8817df584f80: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8817df585000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
I will test :
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
index 685337d58276fc91baeeb64387c52985e1bc6dda..4d2a71381acb739585d662175e86caef72338097 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
@@ -43,12 +43,13 @@
#include "fw.h"
/*
- * We allocate in page size (default 4KB on many archs) chunks to avoid high
- * order memory allocations in fragmented/high usage memory situation.
+ * We allocate in as big chunks as we can, up to a maximum of 256 KB
+ * per chunk. Note that the chunks are not necessarily in contiguous
+ * physical memory.
*/
enum {
- MLX4_ICM_ALLOC_SIZE = PAGE_SIZE,
- MLX4_TABLE_CHUNK_SIZE = PAGE_SIZE,
+ MLX4_ICM_ALLOC_SIZE = 1 << 18,
+ MLX4_TABLE_CHUNK_SIZE = 1 << 18
};
static void mlx4_free_icm_pages(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct mlx4_icm_chunk *chunk)
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