mm/vmalloc: use batched page requests in bulk-allocator

In case of simultaneous vmalloc allocations, for example it is 1GB and 12
CPUs my system is able to hit "BUG: soft lockup" for !CONFIG_PREEMPT
kernel.

  RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_bulk+0xa9f/0xbb0
  Call Trace:
   __vmalloc_node_range+0x11c/0x2d0
   __vmalloc_node+0x4b/0x70
   fix_size_alloc_test+0x44/0x60 [test_vmalloc]
   test_func+0xe7/0x1f0 [test_vmalloc]
   kthread+0x11a/0x140
   ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

To address this issue invoke a bulk-allocator many times until all pages
are obtained, i.e.  do batched page requests adding cond_resched()
meanwhile to reschedule.  Batched value is hard-coded and is 100 pages per
call.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index d5cd52805149..24bc65f02d04 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmap_pfn);
 
 static inline unsigned int
 vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
-		unsigned int order, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **pages)
+		unsigned int order, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_allocated = 0;
 
@@ -2789,10 +2789,32 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 	 * to fails, fallback to a single page allocator that is
 	 * more permissive.
 	 */
-	if (!order)
-		nr_allocated = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(
-			gfp, nid, nr_pages, pages);
-	else
+	if (!order) {
+		while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
+			unsigned int nr, nr_pages_request;
+
+			/*
+			 * A maximum allowed request is hard-coded and is 100
+			 * pages per call. That is done in order to prevent a
+			 * long preemption off scenario in the bulk-allocator
+			 * so the range is [1:100].
+			 */
+			nr_pages_request = min(100U, nr_pages - nr_allocated);
+
+			nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(gfp, nid,
+				nr_pages_request, pages + nr_allocated);
+
+			nr_allocated += nr;
+			cond_resched();
+
+			/*
+			 * If zero or pages were obtained partly,
+			 * fallback to a single page allocator.
+			 */
+			if (nr != nr_pages_request)
+				break;
+		}
+	} else
 		/*
 		 * Compound pages required for remap_vmalloc_page if
 		 * high-order pages.