From patchwork Thu Jul 2 13:08:10 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Igor Mammedov X-Patchwork-Id: 6709031 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-kvm@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-parsemail@patchwork1.web.kernel.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.136]) by patchwork1.web.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2385D9F1C1 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A10F2063B for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA9620642 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752446AbbGBNIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:08:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41023 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753256AbbGBNIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:08:16 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0445AB2; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dell-r430-03.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com (dell-r430-03.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com [10.34.112.60]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t62D8CuM010030; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:08:15 -0400 From: Igor Mammedov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mst@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] vhost: extend memory regions allocation to vmalloc Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:08:10 +0200 Message-Id: <1435842491-131872-2-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1435842491-131872-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> References: <1435842491-131872-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP with large number of memory regions we could end up with high order allocations and kmalloc could fail if host is under memory pressure. Considering that memory regions array is used on hot path try harder to allocate using kmalloc and if it fails resort to vmalloc. It's still better than just failing vhost_set_memory() and causing guest crash due to it when a new memory hotplugged to guest. I'll still look at QEMU side solution to reduce amount of memory regions it feeds to vhost to make things even better, but it doesn't hurt for kernel to behave smarter and don't crash older QEMU's which could use large amount of memory regions. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 71bb468..6488011 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev, bool locked) fput(dev->log_file); dev->log_file = NULL; /* No one will access memory at this point */ - kfree(dev->memory); + kvfree(dev->memory); dev->memory = NULL; WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dev->work_list)); if (dev->worker) { @@ -674,6 +674,18 @@ static int vhost_memory_reg_sort_cmp(const void *p1, const void *p2) return 0; } +static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size) +{ + void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); + + if (!n) { + n = vzalloc(size); + if (!n) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + } + return n; +} + static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m) { struct vhost_memory mem, *newmem, *oldmem; @@ -686,7 +698,7 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (mem.nregions > VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS) return -E2BIG; - newmem = kmalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof *m->regions, GFP_KERNEL); + newmem = vhost_kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions)); if (!newmem) return -ENOMEM; @@ -700,7 +712,7 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m) vhost_memory_reg_sort_cmp, NULL); if (!memory_access_ok(d, newmem, 0)) { - kfree(newmem); + kvfree(newmem); return -EFAULT; } oldmem = d->memory; @@ -712,7 +724,7 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m) d->vqs[i]->memory = newmem; mutex_unlock(&d->vqs[i]->mutex); } - kfree(oldmem); + kvfree(oldmem); return 0; }