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| author |   Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> | 2017-07-12 19:14:16 -0700 |
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| committer |   Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2017-07-19 08:22:12 -0400 |
| commit | 848618857d2535176037bdc085f8d012d907071f (patch) | |
| tree | 2d251e7c70404119716aa9a999d60239b78f6d3a /kernel | |
| parent | Linux v4.13-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-848618857d2535176037bdc085f8d012d907071f.tar.xz linux-dev-848618857d2535176037bdc085f8d012d907071f.zip | |
tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate
ftrace can fail to allocate per-CPU ring buffer on systems with a large
number of CPUs coupled while large amounts of cache happening in the
page cache. Currently the ring buffer allocation doesn't retry in the VM
implementation even if direct-reclaim made some progress but still
wasn't able to find a free page. On retrying I see that the allocations
almost always succeed. The retry doesn't happen because __GFP_NORETRY is
used in the tracer to prevent the case where we might OOM, however if we
drop __GFP_NORETRY, we risk destabilizing the system if OOM killer is
triggered. To prevent this situation, use the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag
introduced recently [1].
Tested the following still succeeds without destabilizing a system with
1GB memory.
echo 300000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149820805124906&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170713021416.8897-1-joelaf@google.com
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 4ae268e687fe..529cc50d7243 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1136,12 +1136,12 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages, int cpu) for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page; /* - * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation fails - * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is - * not destabilized. + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag makes sure that the allocation fails + * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is not + * destabilized. */ bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage), cache_line_size()), - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, cpu_to_node(cpu)); if (!bpage) goto free_pages; @@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages, int cpu) list_add(&bpage->list, pages); page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0); + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, 0); if (!page) goto free_pages; bpage->page = page_address(page); |