[PATCH v3 4/4] kmod: throttle kmod thread limit

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

If we reach the limit of modprobe_limit threads running the next
request_module() call will fail. The original reason for adding
a kill was to do away with possible issues with in old circumstances
which would create a recursive series of request_module() calls.
We can do better than just be super aggressive and reject calls
once we've reached the limit by simply making pending callers wait
until the threshold has been reduced.

The only difference is the clutch helps with avoiding making
request_module() requests fatal more often. With x86_64 qemu,
with 4 cores, 4 GiB of RAM it takes the following run time to
run both tests:

time ./kmod.sh -t 0008
real    0m12.364s
user    0m0.704s
sys     0m5.373s

time ./kmod.sh -t 0009
real    0m47.638s
user    0m1.033s
sys     0m5.425s

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/kmod.c                        | 16 +++++++---------
 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh | 24 ++----------------------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 3e346c700e80..46b12fed6fd0 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(umhelper_sem);
  * enabled.
  * */
 static atomic_t kmod_concurrent_max = ATOMIC_INIT(50);
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(kmod_wq);
 
 /*
 	modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys.
@@ -139,7 +140,6 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 	va_list args;
 	char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
 	int ret;
-	static int kmod_loop_msg;
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't allow synchronous module loading from async.  Module
@@ -163,14 +163,11 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 		return ret;
 
 	if (atomic_dec_if_positive(&kmod_concurrent_max) < 0) {
-		/* We may be blaming an innocent here, but unlikely */
-		if (kmod_loop_msg < 5) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR
-			       "request_module: runaway loop modprobe %s\n",
-			       module_name);
-			kmod_loop_msg++;
-		}
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("request_module: kmod_concurrent_max (%u) close to 0 (max_modprobes: %u), for module %s\n, throttling...",
+				    atomic_read(&kmod_concurrent_max),
+				    50, module_name);
+		wait_event_interruptible(kmod_wq,
+					 atomic_dec_if_positive(&kmod_concurrent_max) >= 0);
 	}
 
 	trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);
@@ -178,6 +175,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 	ret = call_modprobe(module_name, wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
 
 	atomic_inc(&kmod_concurrent_max);
+	wake_up_all(&kmod_wq);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
index 10196a62ed09..8cecae9a8bca 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
@@ -59,28 +59,8 @@ ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0004:1:1"
 ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0005:10:1"
 ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0006:10:1"
 ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0007:5:1"
-
-# Disabled tests:
-#
-# 0008 x 150 -  multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for request_module()"
-# Current best-effort failure interpretation:
-# Enough module requests get loaded in place fast enough to reach over the
-# max_modprobes limit and trigger a failure -- before we're even able to
-# start processing pending requests.
-ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0008:150:0"
-
-# 0009 x 150 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for get_fs_type()"
-# Current best-effort failure interpretation:
-#
-# get_fs_type() requests modules using aliases as such the optimization in
-# place today to look for already loaded modules will not take effect and
-# we end up requesting a new module to load, this bumps the kmod_concurrent,
-# and in certain circumstances can lead to pushing the kmod_concurrent over
-# the max_modprobe limit.
-#
-# This test fails much easier than test 0008 since the alias optimizations
-# are not in place.
-ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0009:150:0"
+ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0008:150:1"
+ALL_TESTS="$ALL_TESTS 0009:150:1"
 
 test_modprobe()
 {
-- 
2.11.0