ring-buffer: Set __GFP_NORETRY flag for ring buffer allocating process

The tracing ring buffer is allocated from kernel memory. While
allocating a large chunk of memory, OOM might happen which destabilizes
the system. Thus random processes might get killed during the
allocation.

This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY flag to the ring buffer allocation calls
to make it fail more gracefully if the system will not be able to
complete the allocation request.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307491302-9236-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index f00ede314eb6..731201bf4acc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1004,9 +1004,14 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 
         for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
                 struct page *page;
-
+                /*
+                 * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation fails
+                 * gracefully without invoking oom-killer and the system is
+                 * not destabilized.
+                 */
                 bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage), cache_line_size()),
-                                    GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu));
+                                    GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
+                                    cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu));
                 if (!bpage)
                         goto free_pages;
 
@@ -1015,7 +1020,7 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
                 list_add(&bpage->list, &pages);
 
                 page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu_buffer->cpu),
-                                        GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+                                        GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
                 if (!page)
                         goto free_pages;
                 bpage->page = page_address(page);
@@ -1377,13 +1382,20 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size)
         for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
                 for (i = 0; i < new_pages; i++) {
                         struct page *page;
+                        /*
+                         * __GFP_NORETRY flag makes sure that the allocation
+                         * fails gracefully without invoking oom-killer and
+                         * the system is not destabilized.
+                         */
                         bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage),
                                                   cache_line_size()),
-                                            GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+                                            GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
+                                            cpu_to_node(cpu));
                         if (!bpage)
                                 goto free_pages;
                         list_add(&bpage->list, &pages);
-                        page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+                        page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
+                                                GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
                         if (!page)
                                 goto free_pages;
                         bpage->page = page_address(page);
@@ -3737,7 +3749,8 @@ void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
         struct buffer_data_page *bpage;
         struct page *page;
 
-        page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+        page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
+                                GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0);
         if (!page)
                 return NULL;