rhashtable: Use __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC for table allocation
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:39:56 +0000 (22:39 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 21:53:05 +0000 (16:53 -0500)
When an rhashtable user pounds rhashtable hard with back-to-back
insertions we may end up growing the table in GFP_ATOMIC context.
Unfortunately when the table reaches a certain size this often
fails because we don't have enough physically contiguous pages
to hold the new table.

Eric Dumazet suggested (and in fact wrote this patch) using
__vmalloc instead which can be used in GFP_ATOMIC context.

Reported-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
lib/rhashtable.c

index 2ff7ed9..1c624db 100644 (file)
@@ -120,8 +120,9 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht,
        if (size <= (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) ||
            gfp != GFP_KERNEL)
                tbl = kzalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
-       if (tbl == NULL && gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
-               tbl = vzalloc(size);
+       if (tbl == NULL)
+               tbl = __vmalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
+                               PAGE_KERNEL);
        if (tbl == NULL)
                return NULL;