linux-kernel - Re: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:54:42 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:47:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:39:51 +1100
 > Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > > Well, the unusual thing was that I was fuzzing system calls for a few hours.
 > > > 
 > > > My fuzzing tool was able to trigger these very easily after an hour or two
 > > > of uptime and memory had fragmented a little, so yeah, quite trivial.
 > > 
 > > We've recently been seeing reports of xfsdump trigging a similar
 > > allocation failures in the XFS attr code when we are doing hundreds
 > > of thousands of attribute lookups to back them up.
 > > 
 > > ad650f5 xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_get
 > > 
 > > I think that falling back to vmalloc here is much better solution
 > > than failing to retreive the attribute - it will work no matter how
 > > fragmented memory gets. That means we don't get incomplete
 > > backups occurring after days or months of uptime and successful
 > > backups...
 > 
 > Yup.  How does the below look?

Don't see anything immediately wrong with it.
Any thoughts on what to do about the similar problem in setxattr ? (memdup_user)

	Dave
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