Re: [PATCH] Revert "kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection"

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Wed 17-07-19 07:07:11, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 17-07-19 01:50:31, Yang Shi 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:
> > 
> > WARNING: CPU: 105 PID: 2138 at mm/page_alloc.c:4608 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
> > Modules linked in: loop dax_pmem dax_pmem_core ip_tables x_tables xfs virtio_net net_failover virtio_blk failover ata_generic virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio libata
> > CPU: 105 PID: 2138 Comm: oom01 Not tainted 5.2.0-next-20190710+ #7
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
> > RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
> > ...
> >  kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
> >  kmem_cache_alloc+0x2a7/0x3e0
> >  ? __kmalloc+0x1d6/0x470
> >  ? ___might_sleep+0x9c/0x170
> >  ? mempool_alloc+0x2b0/0x2b0
> >  mempool_alloc_slab+0x2d/0x40
> >  mempool_alloc+0x118/0x2b0
> >  ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
> >  ? mempool_resize+0x390/0x390
> >  ? lock_downgrade+0x3c0/0x3c0
> >  bio_alloc_bioset+0x19d/0x350
> >  ? __swap_duplicate+0x161/0x240
> >  ? bvec_alloc+0x1b0/0x1b0
> >  ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0xa8/0x140
> >  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x27/0x40
> >  get_swap_bio+0x80/0x230
> >  ? __x64_sys_madvise+0x50/0x50
> >  ? end_swap_bio_read+0x310/0x310
> >  ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
> >  ? check_chain_key+0x24e/0x300
> >  ? bdev_write_page+0x55/0x130
> >  __swap_writepage+0x5ff/0xb20
> > 
> > The mempool_alloc_slab() clears __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, however kmemleak has
> > __GFP_NOFAIL set all the time due to commit
> > d9570ee3bd1d4f20ce63485f5ef05663866fe6c0 ("kmemleak: allow to coexist
> > with fault injection").  But, it doesn't make any sense to have
> > __GFP_NOFAIL and ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM specified at the same time.
> > 
> > According to the discussion on the mailing list, the commit should be
> > reverted for short term solution.  Catalin Marinas would follow up with a better
> > solution for longer term.
> > 
> > The failure rate of kmemleak metadata allocation may increase in some
> > circumstances, but this should be expected side effect.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> I forgot
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Btw. If this leads to early allocation failures too often then
dropping __GFP_NORETRY should help for now until a better solution is
available. It could lead to OOM killer invocation which is probably
the reason why it has been added but probably better than completely
disabling kmemleak altogether. Up to Catalin I guess.
 
> > ---
> >  mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > index 9dd581d..884a5e3 100644
> > --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> > +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
> >  /* GFP bitmask for kmemleak internal allocations */
> >  #define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp)	(((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
> >  				 __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
> > -				 __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOFAIL)
> > +				 __GFP_NOWARN)
> >  
> >  /* scanning area inside a memory block */
> >  struct kmemleak_scan_area {
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs