Re: [linux-next:master] [mm] 0fa2857d23: WARNING:at_mm/page_alloc.c:#__alloc_pages_noprof

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 09:50:21PM +0300, Usama Arif wrote:
> On 24/06/2024 21:33, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 05:05:56AM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > kernel test robot noticed "WARNING:at_mm/page_alloc.c:#__alloc_pages_noprof" on:
> > > > 
> > > > commit: 0fa2857d23aa170e5e28d13c467b303b0065aad8 ("mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap")
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> > > This is coming from WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp), and
> > > is triggered by the new bitmap_zalloc() call in the swapon path. For a
> > > sufficiently large swapfile, bitmap_zalloc() (which uses kmalloc()
> > > under the hood) cannot be used to allocate the bitmap.
> > Do we need to use a bitmap?
> > 
> > We could place a special entry in the swapcache instead (there's
> > XA_ZERO_ENTRY already defined, and if we need a different entry that's
> > not XA_ZERO_ENTRY, there's room for a few hundred more special entries).
> 
> I was going for the most space-efficient and simplest data structure, which
> is bitmap. I believe xarray is either pointer or integer between 0 and
> LONG_MAX? We could convert the individual bits into integer and store them,
> and have another function to extract the integer stored in xarray to a bit,
> but I think thats basically a separate bitmap_xarray API (which would
> probably take more space than a traditional bitmap API, and I dont want to
> make this series dependent on something like that), so I would prefer to use
> bitmap.

But we already _have_ an xarray.  Instead of storing a swap entry in
it, we could store an XA_ZERO_ENTRY.

If there are long runs of zero pages, then this may not be the best
idea.  But then a bitmap isn't the best data structure for long runs
either.