Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE related to adjust_va_to_fit_type

["bhe@redhat.com" <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 09/22/23 at 05:34pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi Jaeseon,
> 
> On 09/22/23 at 03:27pm, Jaeseon Sim wrote:
> > There's panic issue as follows when do alloc_vmap_area:
> > 
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...
> > 
> > page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x800(GFP_NOWAIT)
> > Call Trace:
> > warn_alloc+0xf4/0x190
> > __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xe0c/0xffc
> > __alloc_pages+0x250/0x2d0
> > new_slab+0x17c/0x4e0
> > ___slab_alloc+0x4e4/0x8a8
> > __slab_alloc+0x34/0x6c
> > kmem_cache_alloc+0x20c/0x2f0
> > adjust_va_to_fit_type
> > __alloc_vmap_area
> > alloc_vmap_area+0x298/0x7fc
> > __get_vm_area_node+0x10c/0x1b4
> > __vmalloc_node_range+0x19c/0x7c0
> > 
> > Commit 1b23ff80b399 ("mm/vmalloc: invoke classify_va_fit_type() in
> > adjust_va_to_fit_type()") moved classify_va_fit_type() into
> > adjust_va_to_fit_type() and used WARN_ON_ONCE() to handle return
> > value of adjust_va_to_fit_type(), just as classify_va_fit_type()
> > was handled.
> 
> I don't get what you are fixing. In commit 1b23ff80b399, we have
                                   ~~ s/In/Before/, typo
> "if (WARN_ON_ONCE(type == NOTHING_FIT))", it's the same as the current
> code. You set panic_on_warn, it will panic in old code before commit
> 1b23ff80b399. Isn't it an expected behaviour?
> 
> > 
> > There is another path in adjust_va_to_fit_type() which could
> > return failure and will be handled in alloc_vmap_area().
> > Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() for this case.
> > 
> > Fixes: 45c62fc2897d ("mm/vmalloc: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE related to adjust_va_to_fit_type")
> 
> The commit id for Fixes tag is wrong.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaeseon Sim <jason.sim@samsung.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> > index ef8599d394fd..4a82b6525d48 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> > @@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@ __alloc_vmap_area(struct rb_root *root, struct list_head *head,
> >  
> >          /* Update the free vmap_area. */
> >          ret = adjust_va_to_fit_type(root, head, va, nva_start_addr, size);
> > -        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
> > +        if (ret)
> >                  return vend;
> >  
> >  #if DEBUG_AUGMENT_LOWEST_MATCH_CHECK
> > @@ -4143,7 +4143,7 @@ struct vm_struct **pcpu_get_vm_areas(const unsigned long *offsets,
> >                  ret = adjust_va_to_fit_type(&free_vmap_area_root,
> >                                              &free_vmap_area_list,
> >                                              va, start, size);
> > -                if (WARN_ON_ONCE(unlikely(ret)))
> > +                if (unlikely(ret))
> >                          /* It is a BUG(), but trigger recovery instead. */
> >                          goto recovery;
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> > 
>