From e6629f15623d31e21775a1e5c28b8d5bd6559506 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:04:53 -0700 Subject: powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table() commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream. Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table(): page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2 allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths, but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate. With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to reproduce the panic. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c index 359f078571c7..b2f4a8ed098e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(struct iommu_table *tbl, int nid) /* number of bytes needed for the bitmap */ sz = (tbl->it_size + 7) >> 3; - page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); + page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_KERNEL, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); tbl->it_map = page_address(page); -- cgit v1.2.3