mm: kmem: drop __GFP_NOFAIL when allocating objcg vectors
authorRoman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:18:02 +0000 (09:18 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:07:20 +0000 (17:07 +0000)
commit16fcda24b17507f2bb584e14dec5285301528f52
treef31ff37c595fba55cd2ced178f2cade98d804240
parenta7fd033550271895e2a87ffc8303a03ffdeb9096
mm: kmem: drop __GFP_NOFAIL when allocating objcg vectors

commit 24948e3b7b12e0031a6edb4f49bbb9fb2ad1e4e9 upstream.

Objcg vectors attached to slab pages to store slab object ownership
information are allocated using gfp flags for the original slab
allocation.  Depending on slab page order and the size of slab objects,
objcg vector can take several pages.

If the original allocation was done with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag, it
triggered a warning in the page allocation code.  Indeed, order > 1 pages
should not been allocated with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag.

Fix this by simply dropping the __GFP_NOFAIL flag when allocating the
objcg vector.  It effectively allows to skip the accounting of a single
slab object under a heavy memory pressure.

An alternative would be to implement the mechanism to fallback to order-0
allocations for accounting metadata, which is also not perfect because it
will increase performance penalty and memory footprint of the kernel
memory accounting under memory pressure.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZUp8ZFGxwmCx4ZFr@P9FQF9L96D.corp.robot.car
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b42243e-f197-600a-5d22-56bd728a5ad8@gentwo.org
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c