Re: [PATCH v2] mm: add warning if __vm_enough_memory fails

[Kefeng Wang]

Hi maintainer, any comments, thanks

On 2022/7/26 22:54, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> If a process has no enough memory to allocate a new virtual mapping, we
> may meet kinds of error, eg, fork cannot allocate memory, SIGBUS error
> in shmem, but it is difficult to confirm them, let's add some debug
> information to easy to check this scenario if __vm_enough_memory fails.
>
> Reported-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: use pr_warn_ratelimited, suggested by David Hildenbrand
>
>   mm/util.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index 1266a33a49ea..c786e21c6051 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -1020,6 +1020,8 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
>   	if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) < allowed)
>   		return 0;
>   error:
> +	pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: pid: %d, comm: %s, no enough memory for the allocation\n",
> +			    __func__, current->pid, current->comm);
>   	vm_unacct_memory(pages);
>   
>   	return -ENOMEM;