Re: [PATCH] dma: iovlock: avoid dma_pin_iovec_pages() causing page allocator warns on order >= MAX_ORDER

From: Rafael Aquini
Date: Thu Sep 25 2014 - 15:52:23 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 02:22:38PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> dma_pin_iovec_pages() eventually causes the page allocator to stumble across
> it warning case when a request for contigous mem block gets order >= MAX_ORDER.
>
> trinity(11230): Randomness reseeded to 0xaf76756f
> trinity: trinity(11230) Randomness reseeded to 0xaf76756f
> [ 7442.617160] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 7442.621890] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2410 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x346/0xa00()
> ...
> [ 7442.797088] Call Trace:
> [ 7442.799614] [<ffffffff81600bf7>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
> [ 7442.804860] [<ffffffff8105f621>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
> [ 7442.810944] [<ffffffff8105f6fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> [ 7442.816858] [<ffffffff8113d016>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x346/0xa00
> [ 7442.823294] [<ffffffff81175f59>] alloc_pages_current+0xa9/0x170
> [ 7442.829364] [<ffffffff811384be>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
> [ 7442.835009] [<ffffffff8118064e>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2e/0xa0
> [ 7442.841005] [<ffffffff81182899>] __kmalloc+0x219/0x230
> [ 7442.846284] [<ffffffff81387c8b>] dma_pin_iovec_pages+0x9b/0x240
> [ 7442.852323] [<ffffffff8153ffb8>] tcp_recvmsg+0x888/0xd10
> ...
>
> dma_pin_iovec_pages() is actually being used for an unique callsite within
> tcp_recvmsg() which falls back to skb_copy_datagram_iovec() if the first
> routine fails to pin a DMA buffer for the iovec. The splatted calltrace is
> more scary than other thing, so lets just prevent it from getting out to
> the wild world. This patch also does a minor code style surgery on the
> surrounding hunk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/iovlock.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> index bb48a57..4cb8379 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> @@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ struct dma_pinned_list *dma_pin_iovec_pages(struct iovec *iov, size_t len)
> } while (iovec_len_used < len);
>
> /* single kmalloc for pinned list, page_list[], and the page arrays */
> - local_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*local_list)
> - + (nr_iovecs * sizeof (struct dma_page_list))
> - + (iovec_pages_used * sizeof (struct page*)), GFP_KERNEL);
> + local_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*local_list) +
> + (nr_iovecs * sizeof(struct dma_page_list)) +
> + (iovec_pages_used * sizeof(struct page *)),
> + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
> if (!local_list)
> goto out;
>
> --
> 1.9.3
>

Guys, what's the word here?

Cheers,
-- Rafael

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