linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] xfs: remove kmem_zalloc

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Message-ID: <20170308003528.GK5280@birch.djwong.org>
Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:35:28 -0800
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:     Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy

The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses
it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records.  The infinite loop in
the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so
just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large.
This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no
pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
---
v2: remove single-page fallback
---
 fs/xfs/kmem.c       |   18 ------------------
 fs/xfs/kmem.h       |    2 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c |    6 ++----
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 2dfdc62..70a5b55 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -25,24 +25,6 @@
 #include "kmem.h"
 #include "xfs_message.h"
 
-/*
- * Greedy allocation.  May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- */
-void *
-kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
-{
-	void		*ptr;
-	size_t		kmsize = maxsize;
-
-	while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
-		if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
-			kmsize = minsize;
-	}
-	if (ptr)
-		*size = kmsize;
-	return ptr;
-}
-
 void *
 kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.h b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
index 689f746..f0fc84f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ static inline void  kmem_free(const void *ptr)
 }
 
 
-extern void *kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *, size_t, size_t);
-
 static inline void *
 kmem_zalloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
index 8b2150d..e775f78 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
@@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	xfs_agino_t		agino;	/* inode # in allocation group */
 	xfs_agnumber_t		agno;	/* allocation group number */
 	xfs_btree_cur_t		*cur;	/* btree cursor for ialloc btree */
-	size_t			irbsize; /* size of irec buffer in bytes */
 	xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t	*irbuf;	/* start of irec buffer */
 	int			nirbuf;	/* size of irbuf */
 	int			ubcount; /* size of user's buffer */
@@ -389,11 +388,10 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	*ubcountp = 0;
 	*done = 0;
 
-	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_greedy(&irbsize, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE * 4);
+	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(PAGE_SIZE * 4, KM_SLEEP);
 	if (!irbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	nirbuf = irbsize / sizeof(*irbuf);
+	nirbuf = (PAGE_SIZE * 4) / sizeof(*irbuf);
 
 	/*
 	 * Loop over the allocation groups, starting from the last