Re: [patch] mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing

From: Steffen Maier
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 08:41:56 EST


for the zfcp part:
Acked-by: Steffen Maier <maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 03/08/2015 04:19 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
Allocating a large number of elements in atomic context could quickly
deplete memory reserves, so just disallow atomic resizing entirely.

Nothing currently uses mempool_resize() with anything other than
GFP_KERNEL, so convert existing callers to drop the gfp_mask.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c | 4 ++--
fs/cifs/connect.c | 6 ++----
include/linux/mempool.h | 2 +-
mm/mempool.c | 9 +++++----
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c b/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c
--- a/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c
@@ -738,11 +738,11 @@ static int zfcp_erp_adapter_strategy_open_fsf(struct zfcp_erp_action *act)
return ZFCP_ERP_FAILED;

if (mempool_resize(act->adapter->pool.sr_data,
- act->adapter->stat_read_buf_num, GFP_KERNEL))
+ act->adapter->stat_read_buf_num))
return ZFCP_ERP_FAILED;

if (mempool_resize(act->adapter->pool.status_read_req,
- act->adapter->stat_read_buf_num, GFP_KERNEL))
+ act->adapter->stat_read_buf_num))
return ZFCP_ERP_FAILED;

atomic_set(&act->adapter->stat_miss, act->adapter->stat_read_buf_num);
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -773,8 +773,7 @@ static void clean_demultiplex_info(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)

length = atomic_dec_return(&tcpSesAllocCount);
if (length > 0)
- mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv);
}

static int
@@ -848,8 +847,7 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p)

length = atomic_inc_return(&tcpSesAllocCount);
if (length > 1)
- mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv);

set_freezable();
while (server->tcpStatus != CifsExiting) {
diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ extern mempool_t *mempool_create_node(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data,
gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid);

-extern int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+extern int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr);
extern void mempool_destroy(mempool_t *pool);
extern void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask);
extern void mempool_free(void *element, mempool_t *pool);
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -113,23 +113,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_create_node);
* mempool_create().
* @new_min_nr: the new minimum number of elements guaranteed to be
* allocated for this pool.
- * @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
* This function shrinks/grows the pool. In the case of growing,
* it cannot be guaranteed that the pool will be grown to the new
* size immediately, but new mempool_free() calls will refill it.
+ * This function may sleep.
*
* Note, the caller must guarantee that no mempool_destroy is called
* while this function is running. mempool_alloc() & mempool_free()
* might be called (eg. from IRQ contexts) while this function executes.
*/
-int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr)
{
void *element;
void **new_elements;
unsigned long flags;

BUG_ON(new_min_nr <= 0);
+ might_sleep();

spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
if (new_min_nr <= pool->min_nr) {
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);

/* Grow the pool */
- new_elements = kmalloc(new_min_nr * sizeof(*new_elements), gfp_mask);
+ new_elements = kmalloc(new_min_nr * sizeof(*new_elements), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_elements)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)

while (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
- element = pool->alloc(gfp_mask, pool->pool_data);
+ element = pool->alloc(GFP_KERNEL, pool->pool_data);
if (!element)
goto out;
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
Steffen Maier

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