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Message-Id: <1381488130-30235-90-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:41:59 +0100
From: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 089/100] powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table()
3.5.7.23 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream.
Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table():
page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz));
if (!page)
panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz);
Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2
allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the
ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of
iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC
allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL
allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we
are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths,
but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate.
With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to
reproduce the panic.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index 359f078..b2f4a8ed 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(struct iommu_table *tbl, int nid)
/* number of bytes needed for the bitmap */
sz = (tbl->it_size + 7) >> 3;
- page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz));
+ page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_KERNEL, get_order(sz));
if (!page)
panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz);
tbl->it_map = page_address(page);
--
1.8.3.2
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