I hit the following issue when run trinity in my system. The kernel is
3.4 version, but mainline has the same issue.
The root cause is that the segment size is too large so the kerenl
spends too long trying to allocate a page. Other cases will block until
the test case quits. Also, OOM conditions will occur.
Call Trace:
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14c/0x8f0
alloc_pages_current+0xaf/0x120
kimage_alloc_pages+0x10/0x60
kimage_alloc_control_pages+0x5d/0x270
machine_kexec_prepare+0xe5/0x6c0
? kimage_free_page_list+0x52/0x70
sys_kexec_load+0x141/0x600
? vfs_write+0x100/0x180
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The patch changes sanity_check_segment_list() to verify that the usage by
all segments does not exceed half of memory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for kexec-return-error-number-directly.patch, update comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469625474-53904-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* allocating pages whose destination address we do not care about.
*/
#define KIMAGE_NO_DEST (-1UL)
+#define PAGE_COUNT(x) (((x) + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(struct kimage *image,
gfp_t gfp_mask,
{
int i;
unsigned long nr_segments = image->nr_segments;
+ unsigned long total_pages = 0;
/*
* Verify we have good destination addresses. The caller is
return -EINVAL;
}
+ /*
+ * Verify that no more than half of memory will be consumed. If the
+ * request from userspace is too large, a large amount of time will be
+ * wasted allocating pages, which can cause a soft lockup.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
+ if (PAGE_COUNT(image->segment[i].memsz) > totalram_pages / 2)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ total_pages += PAGE_COUNT(image->segment[i].memsz);
+ }
+
+ if (total_pages > totalram_pages / 2)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/*
* Verify we have good destination addresses. Normally
* the caller is responsible for making certain we don't