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sched: Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation 

When allocating space for load_balance_mask, in sched_init, when
CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is set, we've managed to spill over
KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE on our 6144 core machine.  The patch below
breaks up the allocations so that they don't overflow the max
alloc size.  It also allocates the masks on the the node from
which they'll most commonly be accessed, to minimize remote
accesses on NUMA machines.

Suggested-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418928270-148543-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Alex Thorlton 2014-12-18 12:44:30 -06:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent aa39477b56
commit b74e6278fd
1 changed files with 6 additions and 9 deletions
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@ -7112,9 +7112,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
alloc_size += 2 * nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void **);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
alloc_size += num_possible_cpus() * cpumask_size();
#endif
if (alloc_size) {
ptr = (unsigned long)kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_NOWAIT);
@ -7135,13 +7132,13 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
ptr += nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void **);
#endif /* CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED */
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
per_cpu(load_balance_mask, i) = (void *)ptr;
ptr += cpumask_size();
}
#endif /* CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
per_cpu(load_balance_mask, i) = (cpumask_var_t)kzalloc_node(
cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
}
#endif /* CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
init_rt_bandwidth(&def_rt_bandwidth,
global_rt_period(), global_rt_runtime());