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Dennis Zhou authored
Percpu memory using the vmalloc area based chunk allocator lazily populates chunks by first requesting the full virtual address space required for the chunk and subsequently adding pages as allocations come through. To ensure atomic allocations can succeed, a workqueue item is used to maintain a minimum number of empty pages. In certain scenarios, such as reported in [1], it is possible that physical memory becomes quite scarce which can result in either a rather long time spent trying to find free pages or worse, a kernel panic. This patch adds support for __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN passing them through to the underlying allocators. This should prevent any unnecessary panics potentially caused by the workqueue item. The passing of gfp around is as additional flags rather than a full set of flags. The next patch will change these to caller passed semantics. V2: Added const modifier to gfp flags in the balance path. Removed an extra whitespace. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/551Signed-off-by:
Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com> Suggested-by:
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reported-by: syzbot+adb03f3f0bb57ce3acda@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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