On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 06:30:21AM -0700, Kyle Fortin wrote:
> iscsiadm session login can fail with the following error:
> 
> iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1986-03.com...
> iscsiadm: initiator reported error (9 - internal error)
> 
> When /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf sets node.session.cmds_max = 4096, it results
> in 64K-sized kmallocs per session.  A system under fragmented slab
> pressure may not have any 64K objects available and fail iscsiadm session
> login. Even though memory objects of a smaller size are available, the
> large order allocation ends up failing.
> 
> The kernel will print a warning and dump_stack, like below:

There is a series of patches in Andrew's mmotm tree, which introduces
a kvmalloc() function, that does exactly what you're looking for.

Maybe you want to base your patch on top of it.

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