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[PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc()

From Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc()
Date 2015-11-24 05:10 +0100
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From: Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@lge.com>

When we're using LZ4 multi compression streams for zram swap,
we found out page allocation failure message in system running test.
That was not only once, but a few(2 - 5 times per test).
Also, some failure cases were continually occurring to try allocation
order 3.

In order to make parallel compression private data, we should call
kzalloc() with order 2/3 in runtime(lzo/lz4). But if there is no order
 2/3 size memory to allocate in that time, page allocation fails.
This patch makes to use vmalloc() as fallback of kmalloc(), this
prevents page alloc failure warning.

After using this, we never found warning message in running test, also
It could reduce process startup latency about 60-120ms in each case.

For reference a call trace :

Binder_1: page allocation failure: order:3, mode:0x10c0d0
CPU: 0 PID: 424 Comm: Binder_1 Tainted: GW 3.10.49-perf-g991d02b-dirty #20
Call trace:
[<ffffffc0002069c8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x270
[<ffffffc000206c48>] show_stack+0x10/0x1c
[<ffffffc000cb51c8>] dump_stack+0x1c/0x28
[<ffffffc0002bbfc8>] warn_alloc_failed+0xfc/0x11c
[<ffffffc0002bf518>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x724/0x7f0
[<ffffffc0002bf5f8>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x5c
[<ffffffc0002ed6a4>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x38/0xd8
[<ffffffc0005d9738>] zcomp_lz4_create+0x2c/0x38
[<ffffffc0005d78f0>] zcomp_strm_alloc+0x34/0x78
[<ffffffc0005d7a58>] zcomp_strm_multi_find+0x124/0x1ec
[<ffffffc0005d7c14>] zcomp_strm_find+0xc/0x18
[<ffffffc0005d8fa0>] zram_bvec_rw+0x2fc/0x780
[<ffffffc0005d9680>] zram_make_request+0x25c/0x2d4
[<ffffffc00040f8ac>] generic_make_request+0x80/0xbc
[<ffffffc00040f98c>] submit_bio+0xa4/0x15c
[<ffffffc0002e8bb0>] __swap_writepage+0x218/0x230
[<ffffffc0002e8c04>] swap_writepage+0x3c/0x4c
[<ffffffc0002c7384>] shrink_page_list+0x51c/0x8d0
[<ffffffc0002c7e88>] shrink_inactive_list+0x3f8/0x60c
[<ffffffc0002c86c8>] shrink_lruvec+0x33c/0x4cc
[<ffffffc0002c8894>] shrink_zone+0x3c/0x100
[<ffffffc0002c8c10>] try_to_free_pages+0x2b8/0x54c
[<ffffffc0002bf308>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x514/0x7f0
[<ffffffc0002bf5f8>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x5c
[<ffffffc0003446cc>] proc_info_read+0x50/0xe4
[<ffffffc0002f5204>] vfs_read+0xa0/0x12c
[<ffffffc0002f59c8>] SyS_read+0x44/0x74
DMA: 3397*4kB (MC) 26*8kB (RC) 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB
     0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 13796kB

[minchan: change vmalloc gfp and adding comment about gfp]
Signed-off-by: Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c
index f2afb7e..928bd72 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c
@@ -10,17 +10,36 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/lz4.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include "zcomp_lz4.h"
 
 static void *zcomp_lz4_create(void)
 {
-	return kzalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
+	void *ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * This function could be called in swapout/fs write path
+	 * so we couldn't use GFP_FS|IO. And it assumes we already
+	 * have at least one stream in zram initialization so we
+	 * don't do best effort to allocate more stream in here.
+	 * A default stream will work well without further multiple
+	 * stream. That's why we use  __GFP_NORETRY|NOWARN|NOMEMALLOC.
+	 */
+	ret = kzalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS,
+			__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
+	if (!ret)
+		ret = __vmalloc(LZ4_MEM_COMPRESS,
+					__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN|
+					__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_ZERO,
+					PAGE_KERNEL);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void zcomp_lz4_destroy(void *private)
 {
-	kfree(private);
+	kvfree(private);
 }
 
 static int zcomp_lz4_compress(const unsigned char *src, unsigned char *dst,
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c
index da1bc47..044410a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c
@@ -10,17 +10,36 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/lzo.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include "zcomp_lzo.h"
 
 static void *lzo_create(void)
 {
-	return kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
+	void *ret;
+	/*
+	 * This function could be called in swapout/fs write path
+	 * so we couldn't use GFP_FS|IO. And it assumes we already
+	 * have at least one stream in zram initialization so we
+	 * don't do best effort to allocate more stream in here.
+	 * A default stream will work well without further multiple
+	 * stream. That's why we use  __GFP_NORETRY|NOWARN|NOMEMALLOC.
+	 */
+	ret = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS,
+			__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
+	if (!ret)
+		ret = __vmalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS,
+						__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN|
+						__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_ZERO,
+						PAGE_KERNEL);
+	return ret;
+
 }
 
 static void lzo_destroy(void *private)
 {
-	kfree(private);
+	kvfree(private);
 }
 
 static int lzo_compress(const unsigned char *src, unsigned char *dst,
-- 
1.9.3

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[PATCH 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 05:10 +0100
  [RFC 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 05:10 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 05:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 07:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 08:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 07:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 07:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 08:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 08:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 08:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 09:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 09:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 09:20 +0100

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