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authorVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>2011-06-07 17:01:42 -0700
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-06-14 22:48:51 -0400
commitd7ec4bfed6c97405c6417970ba06c439e08ab8e3 (patch)
tree35272bc4262f70243382d085787765c5e83d6736 /kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
parent22fe9b54d859e53bfbbbdc1a0a77a82bc453927c (diff)
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ring-buffer: Set __GFP_NORETRY flag for ring buffer allocating process
The tracing ring buffer is allocated from kernel memory. While allocating a large chunk of memory, OOM might happen which destabilizes the system. Thus random processes might get killed during the allocation. This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY flag to the ring buffer allocation calls to make it fail more gracefully if the system will not be able to complete the allocation request. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307491302-9236-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c25
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index f00ede314eb6..731201bf4acc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1004,9 +1004,14 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page;
-
+ /*
+ * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation fails
+ * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is
+ * not destabilized.
+ */
bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage), cache_line_size()),
- GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu));
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
+ cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu));
if (!bpage)
goto free_pages;
@@ -1015,7 +1020,7 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
list_add(&bpage->list, &pages);
page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu),
- GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
if (!page)
goto free_pages;
bpage->page = page_address(page);
@@ -1377,13 +1382,20 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size)
for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
for (i = 0; i < new_pages; i++) {
struct page *page;
+ /*
+ * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation
+ * fails gracefully without invoking oom-killer and
+ * the system is not destabilized.
+ */
bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage),
cache_line_size()),
- GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
+ cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!bpage)
goto free_pages;
list_add(&bpage->list, &pages);
- page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
if (!page)
goto free_pages;
bpage->page = page_address(page);
@@ -3737,7 +3749,8 @@ void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
struct buffer_data_page *bpage;
struct page *page;
- page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
if (!page)
return NULL;