Re: [PATCH 2/5] lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
> index 05a4b1b8b8ce..ae17da6f0c75 100644
> --- a/lib/rhashtable.c
> +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht,
>  	int i;
>  
>  	size = sizeof(*tbl) + nbuckets * sizeof(tbl->buckets[0]);
> -	if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL)
> +	if ((gfp & ~__GFP_NOFAIL) != GFP_KERNEL)
>  		tbl = kzalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
>  	else
>  		tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);

There's another GFP_KERNEL check in this function that needs the
same treatment.

> @@ -1067,9 +1067,16 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * This is api initialization and thus we need to guarantee the
> +	 * initial rhashtable allocation. Upon failure, retry with the
> +	 * smallest possible size with __GFP_NOFAIL semantics.
> +	 */
>  	tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (tbl == NULL)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (unlikely(tbl == NULL)) {
> +		size = min_t(u16, ht->p.min_size, HASH_MIN_SIZE);

You mean max_t?

Thanks,
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