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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:42:03 +0800
From: Jian Wen <wenjianhn@...il.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: jiri@...lanox.com, edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, 
	Jian Wen <wenjian1@...omi.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] devlink: use kvzalloc() to allocate devlink
 instance resources

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 6:15 PM Alexander Lobakin
<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jian Wen <wenjianhn@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:21:28 +0800
>
> > During live migration of a virtual machine, the SR-IOV VF need to be
> > re-registered. It may fail when the memory is badly fragmented.
> >
> > The related log is as follows.
> >
> > Mar  1 18:54:12  kernel: hv_netvsc 6045bdaa-c0d1-6045-bdaa-c0d16045bdaa eth0: VF slot 1 added
> > ...
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: kworker/0:0: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 24006 Comm: kworker/0:0 Tainted: G            E     5.4...x86_64 #1
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS 090008  12/07/2018
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: Call Trace:
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: dump_stack+0x8b/0xc8
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: warn_alloc+0xff/0x170
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x92c/0xb2b
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ? get_page_from_freelist+0x1d4/0x1140
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2f9/0x320
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: alloc_pages_current+0x6a/0xb0
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: kmalloc_order+0x1e/0x70
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: kmalloc_order_trace+0x26/0xb0
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: __kmalloc+0x276/0x280
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1e/0x40
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: devlink_alloc+0x29/0x110
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: mlx5_devlink_alloc+0x1a/0x20 [mlx5_core]
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: init_one+0x1d/0x650 [mlx5_core]
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: local_pci_probe+0x46/0x90
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: work_for_cpu_fn+0x1a/0x30
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: process_one_work+0x16d/0x390
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: worker_thread+0x1d3/0x3f0
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: kthread+0x105/0x140
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ? max_active_store+0x80/0x80
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ? kthread_bind+0x20/0x20
> > Mar  1 18:54:13  kernel: ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Use struct_size(devlink, priv, priv_size) as suggested by Alexander Lobakin
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jian Wen <wenjian1@...omi.com>
>
> Since it actually fixes a bug splat, you may want to send it with prefix
> "net" instead of "net-next" and add a "Fixes:" tag here blaming the
> first commit which added Devlink instance allocation. Let's see what
> others think.
Many commits that replace kzalloc()  with kvzalloc() don't include the
"Fixes:'' tag.

Jiri, what do you think?




>
> > ---
> >  net/devlink/core.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/devlink/core.c b/net/devlink/core.c
> > index 7f0b093208d7..f49cd83f1955 100644
> > --- a/net/devlink/core.c
> > +++ b/net/devlink/core.c
> > @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static void devlink_release(struct work_struct *work)
> >       mutex_destroy(&devlink->lock);
> >       lockdep_unregister_key(&devlink->lock_key);
> >       put_device(devlink->dev);
> > -     kfree(devlink);
> > +     kvfree(devlink);
> >  }
> >
> >  void devlink_put(struct devlink *devlink)
> > @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ struct devlink *devlink_alloc_ns(const struct devlink_ops *ops,
> >       if (!devlink_reload_actions_valid(ops))
> >               return NULL;
> >
> > -     devlink = kzalloc(sizeof(*devlink) + priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     devlink = kvzalloc(struct_size(devlink, priv, priv_size), GFP_KERNEL);
> >       if (!devlink)
> >               return NULL;
> >
> > @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ struct devlink *devlink_alloc_ns(const struct devlink_ops *ops,
> >       return devlink;
> >
> >  err_xa_alloc:
> > -     kfree(devlink);
> > +     kvfree(devlink);
> >       return NULL;
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devlink_alloc_ns);
>
> Thanks,
> Olek