tree a1b164abe3e6599998869c894eb1da0da0d2064f
parent 3181c38e4df257852a0c0a53552fd5c869402886
author Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 1507072570 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1507078465 -0700

mm: memcontrol: use vmalloc fallback for large kmem memcg arrays

For quick per-memcg indexing, slab caches and list_lru structures
maintain linear arrays of descriptors.  As the number of concurrent
memory cgroups in the system goes up, this requires large contiguous
allocations (8k cgroups = order-5, 16k cgroups = order-6 etc.) for every
existing slab cache and list_lru, which can easily fail on loaded
systems.  E.g.:

  mkdir: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)
  CPU: 1 PID: 6399 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 4.13.0-mm1-00065-g720bbe532b7c-dirty #481
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x4c/0x110
   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xf50/0x1430
   alloc_pages_current+0x60/0xc0
   kmalloc_order_trace+0x29/0x1b0
   __kmalloc+0x1f4/0x320
   memcg_update_all_list_lrus+0xca/0x2e0
   mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x612/0x670
   cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x19e/0x360
   cgroup_mkdir+0x322/0x490
   kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x55/0x80
   vfs_mkdir+0xd0/0x120
   SyS_mkdirat+0x6c/0xe0
   SyS_mkdir+0x14/0x20
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad
  Mem-Info:
  active_anon:2965 inactive_anon:19 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:100270 inactive_file:98846 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   slab_reclaimable:7328 slab_unreclaimable:16402
   mapped:771 shmem:52 pagetables:278 bounce:0
   free:13718 free_pcp:0 free_cma:0

This output is from an artificial reproducer, but we have repeatedly
observed order-7 failures in production in the Facebook fleet.  These
systems become useless as they cannot run more jobs, even though there
is plenty of memory to allocate 128 individual pages.

Use kvmalloc and kvzalloc to fall back to vmalloc space if these arrays
prove too large for allocating them physically contiguous.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918184919.20644-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>