[114/178] mm/vmalloc: improve allocation failure error messages

Commit Message

Andrew Morton April 30, 2021, 5:59 a.m. UTC

From: Nicholas Piggin <[e-mail]>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: improve allocation failure error messages

There are several reasons why a vmalloc can fail, virtual space exhausted,
page array allocation failure, page allocation failure, and kernel page
table allocation failure.

Add distinct warning messages for the main causes of failure, with some
added information like page order or allocation size where applicable.

[[e-mail]: print correct vmalloc allocation size]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
Cc: Cédric Le Goater <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Patch

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-improve-allocation-failure-error-messages
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2790,6 +2790,10 @@  static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
 
 	if (!pages) {
 		free_vm_area(area);
+		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
+			   "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
+			   "page array size %lu allocation failed",
+			   nr_small_pages * PAGE_SIZE, array_size);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -2814,6 +2818,10 @@  static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
 			/* Successfully allocated i pages, free them in __vfree() */
 			area->nr_pages = i;
 			atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
+			warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
+				   "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
+				   "page order %u allocation failed",
+				   area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE, page_order);
 			goto fail;
 		}
 
@@ -2825,15 +2833,17 @@  static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
 	}
 	atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
 
-	if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, pages, page_shift) < 0)
+	if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, pages, page_shift) < 0) {
+		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
+			   "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
+			   "failed to map pages",
+			   area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
 		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	return area->addr;
 
 fail:
-	warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
-			  "vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated %ld of %ld bytes",
-			  (area->nr_pages*PAGE_SIZE), size);
 	__vfree(area->addr);
 	return NULL;
 }
@@ -2867,9 +2877,14 @@  void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long
 	unsigned long real_align = align;
 	unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-	if (!size || (size >> PAGE_SHIFT) > totalram_pages()) {
-		area = NULL;
-		goto fail;
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!size))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if ((size >> PAGE_SHIFT) > totalram_pages()) {
+		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
+			   "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
+			   "exceeds total pages", real_size);
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	if (vmap_allow_huge && !(vm_flags & VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP) &&
@@ -2897,8 +2912,12 @@  again:
 	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 	area = __get_vm_area_node(size, align, VM_ALLOC | VM_UNINITIALIZED |
 				vm_flags, start, end, node, gfp_mask, caller);
-	if (!area)
+	if (!area) {
+		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
+			   "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
+			   "vm_struct allocation failed", real_size);
 		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	addr = __vmalloc_area_node(area, gfp_mask, prot, shift, node);
 	if (!addr)
@@ -2923,11 +2942,6 @@  fail:
 		goto again;
 	}
 
-	if (!area) {
-		/* Warn for area allocation, page allocations already warn */
-		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
-			  "vmalloc: allocation failure: %lu bytes", real_size);
-	}
 	return NULL;
 }