powerpc: implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages
authorSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:34:11 +0000 (20:34 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:34:11 +0000 (20:34 +1000)
commitdf1bcc3d2ca3ecdb5fd4e56f868bb50a773cebcb
tree23fc30d11e731845ac4a8b94d9150e855c170b86
parent74e70f7f797171a1e0e1cfcc1d2966d28033f291
powerpc: implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages

Currently significant amount of memory is reserved only in kernel booted
to capture kernel dump using the fa_dump method.

Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialize
only certain size memory per node.  The certain size takes into account
the dentry and inode cache sizes.  Currently the cache sizes are
calculated based on the total system memory including the reserved memory.
However such a kernel when booting the same kernel as fadump kernel will
not be able to allocate the required amount of memory to suffice for the
dentry and inode caches.  This results in crashes like

Hence only implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages() for CONFIG_FA_DUMP
configurations.  The amount reserved will be reduced while calculating the
large caches and will avoid crashes like the below on large systems such
as 32 TB systems.

Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912 (order: 16, 4294967296 bytes)
vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 4097114112 of 17179934720 bytes
swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x2080020(GFP_ATOMIC)
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6-master+ #3
Call Trace:
[c00000000108fb10] [c0000000007fac88] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
[c00000000108fb50] [c000000000235264] warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160
[c00000000108fbf0] [c000000000281484] __vmalloc_node_range+0x304/0x340
[c00000000108fca0] [c00000000028152c] __vmalloc+0x6c/0x90
[c00000000108fd40] [c000000000aecfb0]
alloc_large_system_hash+0x1b8/0x2c0
[c00000000108fe00] [c000000000af7240] inode_init+0x94/0xe4
[c00000000108fe80] [c000000000af6fec] vfs_caches_init+0x8c/0x13c
[c00000000108ff00] [c000000000ac4014] start_kernel+0x50c/0x578
[c00000000108ff90] [c000000000008c6c] start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmzone.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
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