For quick per-memcg indexing, slab caches and list_lru structures maintain linear arrays of descriptors. As the number of concurrent memory cgroups in the system goes up, this requires large contiguous allocations (8k cgroups = order-5, 16k cgroups = order-6 etc.) for every existing slab cache and list_lru, which can easily fail on loaded systems. E.g.:
mkdir: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null) CPU: 1 PID: 6399 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 4.13.0-mm1-00065-g720bbe532b7c-dirty #481 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x70/0x9d warn_alloc+0xd6/0x170 ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x4c/0x110 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xf50/0x1430 ? __lock_acquire+0xd19/0x1360 ? memcg_update_all_list_lrus+0x2e/0x2e0 ? __mutex_lock+0x7c/0x950 ? memcg_update_all_list_lrus+0x2e/0x2e0 alloc_pages_current+0x60/0xc0 kmalloc_order_trace+0x29/0x1b0 __kmalloc+0x1f4/0x320 memcg_update_all_list_lrus+0xca/0x2e0 mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x612/0x670 cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x19e/0x360 cgroup_mkdir+0x322/0x490 kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x55/0x80 vfs_mkdir+0xd0/0x120 SyS_mkdirat+0x6c/0xe0 SyS_mkdir+0x14/0x20 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad RIP: 0033:0x7f9ff36cee87 RSP: 002b:00007ffc7612d758 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc7612da48 RCX: 00007f9ff36cee87 RDX: 00000000000001ff RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 00007ffc7612de86 RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000000001ff R09: 0000000000401db0 R10: 00000000000001e2 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffc7612da40 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 Mem-Info: active_anon:2965 inactive_anon:19 isolated_anon:0 active_file:100270 inactive_file:98846 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:7328 slab_unreclaimable:16402 mapped:771 shmem:52 pagetables:278 bounce:0 free:13718 free_pcp:0 free_cma:0 This output is from an artificial reproducer, but we have repeatedly observed order-7 failures in production in the Facebook fleet. These systems become useless as they cannot run more jobs, even though there is plenty of memory to allocate 128 individual pages. Use kvmalloc and kvzalloc to fall back to vmalloc space if these arrays prove too large for allocating them physically contiguous. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> --- mm/list_lru.c | 12 ++++++------ mm/slab_common.c | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c index 7a40fa2be858..f141f0c80ff3 100644 --- a/mm/list_lru.c +++ b/mm/list_lru.c @@ -325,12 +325,12 @@ static int memcg_init_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru) { int size = memcg_nr_cache_ids; - nlru->memcg_lrus = kmalloc(size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); + nlru->memcg_lrus = kvmalloc(size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!nlru->memcg_lrus) return -ENOMEM; if (__memcg_init_list_lru_node(nlru->memcg_lrus, 0, size)) { - kfree(nlru->memcg_lrus); + kvfree(nlru->memcg_lrus); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int memcg_init_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru) static void memcg_destroy_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru) { __memcg_destroy_list_lru_node(nlru->memcg_lrus, 0, memcg_nr_cache_ids); - kfree(nlru->memcg_lrus); + kvfree(nlru->memcg_lrus); } static int memcg_update_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru, @@ -351,12 +351,12 @@ static int memcg_update_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru, BUG_ON(old_size > new_size); old = nlru->memcg_lrus; - new = kmalloc(new_size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); + new = kvmalloc(new_size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) return -ENOMEM; if (__memcg_init_list_lru_node(new, old_size, new_size)) { - kfree(new); + kvfree(new); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static int memcg_update_list_lru_node(struct list_lru_node *nlru, nlru->memcg_lrus = new; spin_unlock_irq(&nlru->lock); - kfree(old); + kvfree(old); return 0; } diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 904a83be82de..80164599ca5d 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ static int init_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s, if (!memcg_nr_cache_ids) return 0; - arr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct memcg_cache_array) + - memcg_nr_cache_ids * sizeof(void *), - GFP_KERNEL); + arr = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct memcg_cache_array) + + memcg_nr_cache_ids * sizeof(void *), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!arr) return -ENOMEM; @@ -178,15 +178,23 @@ static int init_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s, static void destroy_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s) { if (is_root_cache(s)) - kfree(rcu_access_pointer(s->memcg_params.memcg_caches)); + kvfree(rcu_access_pointer(s->memcg_params.memcg_caches)); +} + +static void free_memcg_params(struct rcu_head *rcu) +{ + struct memcg_cache_array *old; + + old = container_of(rcu, struct memcg_cache_array, rcu); + kvfree(old); } static int update_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s, int new_array_size) { struct memcg_cache_array *old, *new; - new = kzalloc(sizeof(struct memcg_cache_array) + - new_array_size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); + new = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct memcg_cache_array) + + new_array_size * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) return -ENOMEM; @@ -198,7 +206,7 @@ static int update_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s, int new_array_size) rcu_assign_pointer(s->memcg_params.memcg_caches, new); if (old) - kfree_rcu(old, rcu); + call_rcu(&old->rcu, free_memcg_params); return 0; } -- 2.14.1