On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following page allocation failure triggers sometimes when I plug my
> memory card reader on a USB port.
>
>
> [850845.928795] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 48 using ehci-pci
> [850846.300702] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=0119
> [850846.300707] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=3
> [850846.300711] usb 1-4: Product: USB2.0-CRW
> [850846.300715] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Generic
> [850846.300718] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 20090815198100000
> [850846.302733] scsi86 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
> [850847.304359] scsi 86:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic- SD/MMC
> 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> [850847.305734] sd 86:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> [850848.456294] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] 7911424 512-byte logical blocks: (4.05
> GB/3.77 GiB)
> [850848.457160] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
> [850848.457166] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [850848.458054] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
> [850848.458060] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [850848.461502] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
> [850848.461507] sd 86:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [850848.461963] kworker/u:0: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x2000d0
> [850848.461969] Pid: 7122, comm: kworker/u:0 Tainted: G W
> 3.8.0-rc4+ #206
> [850848.461972] Call Trace:
> [850848.461984] [<ffffffff810d02a8>] ? warn_alloc_failed+0x116/0x128
> [850848.461991] [<ffffffff810d31d9>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6b5/0x751
> [850848.462000] [<ffffffff81106297>] ? kmem_getpages+0x59/0x129
> [850848.462006] [<ffffffff81106b88>] ? fallback_alloc+0x12f/0x1fc
> [850848.462013] [<ffffffff811071c7>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x87/0xf6
> [850848.462021] [<ffffffff812a633c>] ? check_partition+0x28/0x1ac
> [850848.462027] [<ffffffff812a60bd>] ? rescan_partitions+0xa4/0x27c
> [850848.462034] [<ffffffff8113bcfb>] ? __blkdev_get+0x1ac/0x3d2
> [850848.462040] [<ffffffff8113c0b1>] ? blkdev_get+0x190/0x2d8
> [850848.462046] [<ffffffff8113b23f>] ? bdget+0x3b/0x12b
> [850848.462052] [<ffffffff812a41a6>] ? add_disk+0x268/0x3e2
> [850848.462058] [<ffffffff81382f3d>] ? sd_probe_async+0x11b/0x1cc
> [850848.462066] [<ffffffff81055f74>] ? async_run_entry_fn+0xa2/0x173
> [850848.462072] [<ffffffff81055ed2>] ? async_schedule+0x15/0x15
> [850848.462079] [<ffffffff8104bb79>] ? process_one_work+0x172/0x2ca
> [850848.462084] [<ffffffff8104b88a>] ? manage_workers+0x22a/0x23c
> [850848.462090] [<ffffffff81055ed2>] ? async_schedule+0x15/0x15
> [850848.462096] [<ffffffff8104bfa4>] ? worker_thread+0x11d/0x1b7
> [850848.462102] [<ffffffff8104be87>] ? rescuer_thread+0x18c/0x18c
> [850848.462109] [<ffffffff81050421>] ? kthread+0x86/0x8e
> [850848.462116] [<ffffffff8105039b>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x60/0x60
> [850848.462125] [<ffffffff814a306c>] ? ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [850848.462132] [<ffffffff8105039b>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x60/0x60
The allocation failure is caused by the big sizeof(struct parsed_partitions),
which is 64K in my 32bit box, could you test the blow patch to see
if it can fix the allocation failure?
--
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index f1d1451..043d0bd 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ rescan:
md_autodetect_dev(part_to_dev(part)->devt);
#endif
}
- kfree(state);
+ release_partitions(state);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/block/partitions/check.c b/block/partitions/check.c
index bc90867..d89eef7 100644
--- a/block/partitions/check.c
+++ b/block/partitions/check.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
@@ -106,18 +107,43 @@ static int (*check_part[])(struct parsed_partitions *) = {
NULL
};
+struct parsed_partitions *allocate_partitions(int nr)
+{
+ struct parsed_partitions *state;
+
+ state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct parsed_partitions), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!state)
+ return NULL;
+
+ state->parts = vzalloc(nr * sizeof(state->parts[0]));
+ if (!state->parts) {
+ kfree(state);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return state;
+}
+
+void release_partitions(struct parsed_partitions *state)
+{
+ vfree(state->parts);
+ kfree(state);
+}
+
struct parsed_partitions *
check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct block_device *bdev)
{
struct parsed_partitions *state;
int i, res, err;
- state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct parsed_partitions), GFP_KERNEL);
+ i = disk_max_parts(hd);
+ state = allocate_partitions(i);
if (!state)
return NULL;
+ state->limit = i;
state->pp_buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!state->pp_buf) {
- kfree(state);
+ release_partitions(state);
return NULL;
}
state->pp_buf[0] = '\0';
@@ -128,10 +154,9 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct
block_device *bdev)
if (isdigit(state->name[strlen(state->name)-1]))
sprintf(state->name, "p");
- state->limit = disk_max_parts(hd);
i = res = err = 0;
while (!res && check_part[i]) {
- memset(&state->parts, 0, sizeof(state->parts));
+ memset(state->parts, 0, state->limit * sizeof(state->parts[0]));
res = check_part[i++](state);
if (res < 0) {
/* We have hit an I/O error which we don't report now.
@@ -161,6 +186,6 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct
block_device *bdev)
printk(KERN_INFO "%s", state->pp_buf);
free_page((unsigned long)state->pp_buf);
- kfree(state);
+ release_partitions(state);
return ERR_PTR(res);
}
diff --git a/block/partitions/check.h b/block/partitions/check.h
index 52b1003..8323808 100644
--- a/block/partitions/check.h
+++ b/block/partitions/check.h
@@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ struct parsed_partitions {
int flags;
bool has_info;
struct partition_meta_info info;
- } parts[DISK_MAX_PARTS];
+ } *parts;
int next;
int limit;
bool access_beyond_eod;
char *pp_buf;
};
+extern void release_partitions(struct parsed_partitions *state);
+
struct parsed_partitions *
check_partition(struct gendisk *, struct block_device *);
Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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