From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752480AbbLVG6d (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:58:33 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:36280 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750872AbbLVG6a (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:58:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:59:36 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Kyeongdon Kim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky , Sergey Senozhatsky Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Message-ID: <20151222065936.GB1684@swordfish> References: <1448973390-21170-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <1448973390-21170-3-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1448973390-21170-3-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Cc stable Do I need to resend the patch or providing the message-id is enough? lkml.kernel.org/r/1448973390-21170-3-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=144897350818887 ) -ss > From: Kyeongdon Kim > > When we're using LZ4 multi compression streams for zram swap, we found out > page allocation failure message in system running test. That was not only > once, but a few(2 - 5 times per test). Also, some failure cases were > continually occurring to try allocation order 3. > > In order to make parallel compression private data, we should call > kzalloc() with order 2/3 in runtime(lzo/lz4). But if there is no order > 2/3 size memory to allocate in that time, page allocation fails. This > patch makes to use vmalloc() as fallback of kmalloc(), this prevents page > alloc failure warning. > > After using this, we never found warning message in running test, also It > could reduce process startup latency about 60-120ms in each case. > > For reference a call trace : > > Binder_1: page allocation failure: order:3, mode:0x10c0d0 > CPU: 0 PID: 424 Comm: Binder_1 Tainted: GW 3.10.49-perf-g991d02b-dirty #20 > Call trace: > [] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x270 > [] show_stack+0x10/0x1c > [] dump_stack+0x1c/0x28 > [] warn_alloc_failed+0xfc/0x11c > [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x724/0x7f0 > [] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x5c > [] kmalloc_order_trace+0x38/0xd8 > [] zcomp_lz4_create+0x2c/0x38 > [] zcomp_strm_alloc+0x34/0x78 > [] zcomp_strm_multi_find+0x124/0x1ec > [] zcomp_strm_find+0xc/0x18 > [] zram_bvec_rw+0x2fc/0x780 > [] zram_make_request+0x25c/0x2d4 > [] generic_make_request+0x80/0xbc > [] submit_bio+0xa4/0x15c > [] __swap_writepage+0x218/0x230 > [] swap_writepage+0x3c/0x4c > [] shrink_page_list+0x51c/0x8d0 > [] shrink_inactive_list+0x3f8/0x60c > [] shrink_lruvec+0x33c/0x4cc > [] shrink_zone+0x3c/0x100 > [] try_to_free_pages+0x2b8/0x54c > [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x514/0x7f0 > [] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x5c > [] proc_info_read+0x50/0xe4 > [] vfs_read+0xa0/0x12c > [] SyS_read+0x44/0x74 > DMA: 3397*4kB (MC) 26*8kB (RC) 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB > 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 13796kB > > [minchan@kernel.org: change vmalloc gfp and adding comment about gfp] > [sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: tweak comments and styles] > Signed-off-by: Kyeongdon Kim > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim > Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky > --- > drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- > drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c > index ee44b51..dd60831 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c > @@ -10,17 +10,36 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > +#include > > #include "zcomp_lz4.h" > > static void *zcomp_lz4_create(void) > { > - return kzalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_NOIO); > + void *ret; > + > + /* > + * This function can be called in swapout/fs write path > + * so we can't use GFP_FS|IO. And it assumes we already > + * have at least one stream in zram initialization so we > + * don't do best effort to allocate more stream in here. > + * A default stream will work well without further multiple > + * streams. That's why we use NORETRY | NOWARN. > + */ > + ret = kzalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | > + __GFP_NOWARN); > + if (!ret) > + ret = __vmalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS, > + GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | > + __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM, > + PAGE_KERNEL); > + return ret; > } > > static void zcomp_lz4_destroy(void *private) > { > - kfree(private); > + kvfree(private); > } > > static int zcomp_lz4_compress(const unsigned char *src, unsigned char *dst, > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c > index 683ce04..edc5499 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c > @@ -10,17 +10,36 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > +#include > > #include "zcomp_lzo.h" > > static void *lzo_create(void) > { > - return kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_NOIO); > + void *ret; > + > + /* > + * This function can be called in swapout/fs write path > + * so we can't use GFP_FS|IO. And it assumes we already > + * have at least one stream in zram initialization so we > + * don't do best effort to allocate more stream in here. > + * A default stream will work well without further multiple > + * streams. That's why we use NORETRY | NOWARN. > + */ > + ret = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | > + __GFP_NOWARN); > + if (!ret) > + ret = __vmalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, > + GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | > + __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM, > + PAGE_KERNEL); > + return ret; > } > > static void lzo_destroy(void *private) > { > - kfree(private); > + kvfree(private); > } > > static int lzo_compress(const unsigned char *src, unsigned char *dst, > -- > 2.6.2 >