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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c index 62f6bced3a3c..afca36f53c49 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -136,21 +136,29 @@ static struct bpf_map *find_and_alloc_map(union bpf_attr *attr) void *bpf_map_area_alloc(size_t size, int numa_node) { - /* We definitely need __GFP_NORETRY, so OOM killer doesn't - * trigger under memory pressure as we really just want to - * fail instead. + /* We really just want to fail instead of triggering OOM killer + * under memory pressure, therefore we set __GFP_NORETRY to kmalloc, + * which is used for lower order allocation requests. + * + * It has been observed that higher order allocation requests done by + * vmalloc with __GFP_NORETRY being set might fail due to not trying + * to reclaim memory from the page cache, thus we set + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL to avoid such situations. */ - const gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ZERO; + + const gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ZERO; void *area; if (size <= (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) { - area = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_USER | flags, numa_node); + area = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_USER | __GFP_NORETRY | flags, + numa_node); if (area != NULL) return area; } - return __vmalloc_node_flags_caller(size, numa_node, GFP_KERNEL | flags, - __builtin_return_address(0)); + return __vmalloc_node_flags_caller(size, numa_node, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | + flags, __builtin_return_address(0)); } void bpf_map_area_free(void *area) |