From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
THIS PATCH IS FOR TESTING ONLY AND NOT MEANT TO HIT LINUS TREE
It is desirable to reduce the direct GFP_NO{FS,IO} usage at minimum and
prefer scope usage defined by memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore} API.
Let's help this process and add a debugging tool to catch when an
explicit allocation request for GFP_NO{FS,IO} is done from the scope
context. The printed stacktrace should help to identify the caller
and evaluate whether it can be changed to use a wider context or whether
it is called from another potentially dangerous context which needs
a scope protection as well.
The checks have to be enabled explicitly by debug_scope_gfp kernel
command line parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 86bb5d6ddd7d..085d00280496 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3750,6 +3750,61 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int
order,
return page;
}
+static bool debug_scope_gfp;
+
+static int __init enable_debug_scope_gfp(char *unused)
+{
+ debug_scope_gfp = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * spit the stack trace if the given gfp_mask clears flags which are context
+ * wide cleared. Such a caller can remove special flags clearing and rely on
+ * the context wide mask.
+ */
+static inline void debug_scope_gfp_context(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ gfp_t restrict_mask;
+
+ if (likely(!debug_scope_gfp))
+ return;
+
+ /* both NOFS, NOIO are irrelevant when direct reclaim is disabled */
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
+ return;
+
+ if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO)
+ restrict_mask = __GFP_IO;
+ else if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+ restrict_mask = __GFP_FS;
+ else
+ return;
+
+ if ((gfp_mask & restrict_mask) != restrict_mask) {
+ /*
+ * If you see this this warning then the code does:
+ * memalloc_no{fs,io}_save()
+ * ...
+ * foo()
+ * alloc_page(GFP_NO{FS,IO})
+ * ...
+ * memalloc_no{fs,io}_restore()
+ *
+ * allocation which is unnecessary because the scope gfp
+ * context will do that for all allocation requests already.
+ * If foo() is called from multiple contexts then make sure
other
+ * contexts are safe wrt. GFP_NO{FS,IO} semantic and either add
+ * scope protection into particular paths or change the gfp mask
+ * to GFP_KERNEL.
+ */
+ pr_info("Unnecesarily specific gfp mask:%#x(%pGg) for the %s
task wide context\n", gfp_mask, &gfp_mask,
+ (current->flags &
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO)?"NOIO":"NOFS");
+ dump_stack();
+ }
+}
+early_param("debug_scope_gfp", enable_debug_scope_gfp);
+
/*
* This is the 'heart' of the zoned buddy allocator.
*/
@@ -3796,6 +3851,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
ac.nodemask);
/* First allocation attempt */
+ debug_scope_gfp_context(gfp_mask);
page = get_page_from_freelist(alloc_mask, order, alloc_flags, &ac);
if (likely(page))
goto out;
--
2.8.0.rc3
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