On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:49:04 +0800 Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> When running ltp's oom test with kmemleak enabled, the below warning was
> triggerred since kernel detects __GFP_NOFAIL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is
> passed in:
>
> ...
>
> The mempool_alloc_slab() clears __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, kmemleak has
> __GFP_NOFAIL set all the time due to commit
> d9570ee3bd1d4f20ce63485f5ef05663866fe6c0 ("kmemleak: allow to coexist
> with fault injection").
>
> The fault-injection would not try to fail slab or page allocation if
> __GFP_NOFAIL is used and that commit tries to turn off fault injection
> for kmemleak allocation. Although __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't guarantee no
> failure for all the cases (i.e. non-blockable allocation may fail), it
> still makes sense to the most cases. Kmemleak is also a debugging tool,
> so it sounds not worth changing the behavior.
>
> It also meaks sense to keep the warning, so just document the special
> case in the comment.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -4531,8 +4531,14 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> */
> if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
> /*
> - * All existing users of the __GFP_NOFAIL are blockable, so warn
> - * of any new users that actually require GFP_NOWAIT
> + * The users of the __GFP_NOFAIL are expected be blockable,
> + * and this is true for the most cases except for kmemleak.
> + * The kmemleak pass in __GFP_NOFAIL to skip fault injection,
> + * however kmemleak may allocate object at some non-blockable
> + * context to trigger this warning.
> + *
> + * Keep this warning since it is still useful for the most
> + * normal cases.
> */
Comment has rather a lot of typos. I'd normally fix them but I think
I'll duck this patch until the kmemleak situation is addressed, so we
can add a kmemleakless long-term comment, if desired.
