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powerpc: implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages

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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:
     dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
     warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160
     __vmalloc_node_range+0x304/0x340
     __vmalloc+0x6c/0x90
     alloc_large_system_hash+0x1b8/0x2c0
     inode_init+0x94/0xe4
     vfs_caches_init+0x8c/0x13c
     start_kernel+0x50c/0x578
     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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Srikar Dronamraju 2016-10-07 16:59:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8907de5dc6
commit 1e76609cc1
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmzone.h
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@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ u64 memory_hotplug_max(void);
#else
#define memory_hotplug_max() memblock_end_of_DRAM()
#endif /* CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES */
#ifdef CONFIG_FA_DUMP
#define __HAVE_ARCH_RESERVED_KERNEL_PAGES
#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _ASM_MMZONE_H_ */

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arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
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@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
return 1;
}
unsigned long __init arch_reserved_kernel_pages(void)
{
return memblock_reserved_size() / PAGE_SIZE;
}
/* Look for fadump= cmdline option. */
static int __init early_fadump_param(char *p)
{