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Joel Fernandes 848618857d tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate 
ftrace can fail to allocate per-CPU ring buffer on systems with a large
number of CPUs coupled while large amounts of cache happening in the
page cache. Currently the ring buffer allocation doesn't retry in the VM
implementation even if direct-reclaim made some progress but still
wasn't able to find a free page. On retrying I see that the allocations
almost always succeed. The retry doesn't happen because __GFP_NORETRY is
used in the tracer to prevent the case where we might OOM, however if we
drop __GFP_NORETRY, we risk destabilizing the system if OOM killer is
triggered. To prevent this situation, use the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag
introduced recently [1].

Tested the following still succeeds without destabilizing a system with
1GB memory.
echo 300000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149820805124906&w=2

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170713021416.8897-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-07-19 08:22:12 -04:00
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bpf Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
cgroup mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
configs config: android-base: disable CONFIG_NFSD and CONFIG_NFS_FS 2017-06-09 11:47:38 +02:00
debug
events Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
gcov gcov: support GCC 7.1 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-09 10:24:46 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Fix stacking of patches with respect to RCU 2017-06-20 10:42:19 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-09 10:47:50 -07:00
power More power management updates for v4.13-rc1 2017-07-10 15:16:21 -07:00
printk Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-07-05 11:11:26 -07:00
rcu rcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU 2017-06-08 18:52:45 -07:00
sched Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq-sched' and 'intel_pstate' 2017-07-14 13:16:16 +02:00
time Merge branch 'timers-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 15:34:35 -07:00
trace tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate 2017-07-19 08:22:12 -04:00
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acct.c
async.c async: Adjust system_state checks 2017-05-23 10:01:37 +02:00
audit.c Merge branch 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-07-05 11:24:05 -07:00
audit.h audit: style fix 2017-06-12 18:07:43 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
audit_tree.c Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
audit_watch.c Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: kernel generated netlink traffic should have a portid of 0 2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-07-05 11:24:05 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-06 20:57:13 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c smp/hotplug: Move unparking of percpu threads to the control CPU 2017-07-06 10:55:10 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c kdump: protect vmcoreinfo data under the crash memory 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c doc: ReSTify credentials.txt 2017-05-18 10:30:19 -06:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4() 2017-07-10 16:32:36 -07:00
extable.c lib/extable.c: use bsearch() library function in search_extable() 2017-07-10 16:32:35 -07:00
fork.c fork,random: use get_random_canary() to set tsk->stack_canary 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time 2017-07-03 21:13:25 -07:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel/groups.c: use sort library function 2017-07-10 16:32:34 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: defer showing held locks 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Reorder hotplug lock and jump_label_lock 2017-05-26 10:10:45 +02:00
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: replace all_var with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL) 2017-07-10 16:32:34 -07:00
kcmp.c kcmp: add KCMP_EPOLL_TFD mode to compare epoll target files 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: simplify interrupt check 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kexec.c kdump: protect vmcoreinfo data under the crash memory 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
kexec_core.c kdump: protect vmcoreinfo data under the crash memory 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
kexec_file.c kexec_file: adjust declaration of kexec_purgatory 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec_file: adjust declaration of kexec_purgatory 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kmod.c kmod: throttle kmod thread limit 2017-07-14 15:05:13 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Ensure that jprobe probepoints are at function entry 2017-07-08 11:05:35 +02:00
ksysfs.c kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section 2017-07-12 16:25:59 -07:00
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel/watchdog: split up config options 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
membarrier.c
memremap.c mm, memory_hotplug: replace for_device by want_memblock in arch_add_memory 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c Modules updates for v4.13 2017-07-12 17:22:01 -07:00
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: Avoid nested calls to cpus_read_lock() in pcrypt_init_padata() 2017-05-26 10:10:37 +02:00
panic.c
params.c boot/param: Move next_arg() function to lib/cmdline.c for later reuse 2017-04-18 10:37:13 +02:00
pid.c mm: update callers to use HASH_ZERO flag 2017-07-06 16:24:33 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_ns: Sleep in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in zap_pid_ns_processes 2017-05-13 17:26:01 -05:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork 2017-05-23 07:40:44 -05:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c Merge branch 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-02 11:38:06 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c seccomp: Switch from atomic_t to recount_t 2017-06-26 09:24:00 -07:00
signal.c kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info 2017-07-10 16:32:36 -07:00
smp.c smp, cpumask: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu() 2017-05-23 10:01:32 +02:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Provide stop_machine_cpuslocked() 2017-05-26 10:10:36 +02:00
sys.c fix a braino in compat_sys_getrlimit() 2017-07-12 09:15:00 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c kernel/watchdog: split up config options 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: check name array length in deprecated_sysctl_warning() 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c taskstats: add e/u/stime for TGID command 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c kernel/watchdog.c: use better pr_fmt prefix 2017-07-14 15:05:13 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c kernel/watchdog: split up config options 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
workqueue.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h