Re: [PATCH] mm: ratelimit oversized kvmalloc warnings instead of once

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Wed 19-06-24 01:03:16, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 09:19:41AM GMT, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 18-06-24 14:34:21, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > At the moment oversize kvmalloc warnings are triggered once using
> > > WARN_ON_ONCE() macro. One issue with this approach is that it only
> > > detects the first abuser and then ignores the remaining abusers which
> > > complicates detecting all such abusers in a timely manner. The situation
> > > becomes worse when the repro has low probability and requires production
> > > traffic and thus require large set of machines to find such abusers. In
> > > Mera production, this warn once is slowing down the detection of these
> > > abusers. Simply replace WARN_ON_ONCE with WARN_RATELIMIT.
> > 
> > Long time ago, I've had a patch to do the once_per_callsite WARN. I
> > cannot find reference at the moment but it used stack depot to note
> > stacks that have already triggered. Back then there was no reponse on
> > the ML. Should I try to dig deep and recover it from my archives? I
> > think this is exactly kind of usecase where it would fit.
> > 
> 
> Do you mean something like warn once per unique call stack?

Exactly!

> If yes then
> I think that is better than the simple ratelimiting version as
> ratelimiting one may still miss some abusers and also may keep warning
> about the same abuser. Please do share your patch.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20170103134424.28123-1-mhocko@kernel.org/

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs