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![]() The ethernet driver may allocate skb (and skb->data) via napi_alloc_skb().
This ends up to page_frag_alloc() to allocate skb->data from
page_frag_cache->va.
During the memory pressure, page_frag_cache->va may be allocated as
pfmemalloc page. As a result, the skb->pfmemalloc is always true as
skb->data is from page_frag_cache->va. The skb will be dropped if the
sock (receiver) does not have SOCK_MEMALLOC. This is expected behaviour
under memory pressure.
However, once kernel is not under memory pressure any longer (suppose large
amount of memory pages are just reclaimed), the page_frag_alloc() may still
re-use the prior pfmemalloc page_frag_cache->va to allocate skb->data. As a
result, the skb->pfmemalloc is always true unless page_frag_cache->va is
re-allocated, even if the kernel is not under memory pressure any longer.
Here is how kernel runs into issue.
1. The kernel is under memory pressure and allocation of
PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_ORDER in __page_frag_cache_refill() will fail. Instead,
the pfmemalloc page is allocated for page_frag_cache->va.
2: All skb->data from page_frag_cache->va (pfmemalloc) will have
skb->pfmemalloc=true. The skb will always be dropped by sock without
SOCK_MEMALLOC. This is an expected behaviour.
3. Suppose a large amount of pages are reclaimed and kernel is not under
memory pressure any longer. We expect skb->pfmemalloc drop will not happen.
4. Unfortunately, page_frag_alloc() does not proactively re-allocate
page_frag_alloc->va and will always re-use the prior pfmemalloc page. The
skb->pfmemalloc is always true even kernel is not under memory pressure any
longer.
Fix this by freeing and re-allocating the page instead of recycling it.
References: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103193239.1807-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com/
References: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201105042140.5253-1-willy@infradead.org/
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>
Cc: Bert Barbe <bert.barbe@oracle.com>
Cc: Rama Nichanamatlu <rama.nichanamatlu@oracle.com>
Cc: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Cc: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@oracle.com>
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Fixes:
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.. | ||
kasan | ||
backing-dev.c | ||
balloon_compaction.c | ||
cleancache.c | ||
cma.c | ||
cma.h | ||
cma_debug.c | ||
compaction.c | ||
debug.c | ||
debug_page_ref.c | ||
debug_vm_pgtable.c | ||
dmapool.c | ||
early_ioremap.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
failslab.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
frame_vector.c | ||
frontswap.c | ||
gup.c | ||
gup_benchmark.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
hmm.c | ||
huge_memory.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
hugetlb_cgroup.c | ||
hwpoison-inject.c | ||
init-mm.c | ||
internal.h | ||
interval_tree.c | ||
ioremap.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Kconfig.debug | ||
khugepaged.c | ||
kmemleak.c | ||
ksm.c | ||
list_lru.c | ||
maccess.c | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
mapping_dirty_helpers.c | ||
memblock.c | ||
memcontrol.c | ||
memfd.c | ||
memory-failure.c | ||
memory.c | ||
memory_hotplug.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
memremap.c | ||
memtest.c | ||
migrate.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mm_init.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mmu_gather.c | ||
mmu_notifier.c | ||
mmzone.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_counter.c | ||
page_ext.c | ||
page_idle.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
page_isolation.c | ||
page_owner.c | ||
page_poison.c | ||
page_reporting.c | ||
page_reporting.h | ||
page_vma_mapped.c | ||
pagewalk.c | ||
percpu-internal.h | ||
percpu-km.c | ||
percpu-stats.c | ||
percpu-vm.c | ||
percpu.c | ||
pgalloc-track.h | ||
pgtable-generic.c | ||
process_vm_access.c | ||
ptdump.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
rodata_test.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
shuffle.c | ||
shuffle.h | ||
slab.c | ||
slab.h | ||
slab_common.c | ||
slob.c | ||
slub.c | ||
sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
sparse.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swap_cgroup.c | ||
swap_slots.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
usercopy.c | ||
userfaultfd.c | ||
util.c | ||
vmacache.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmpressure.c | ||
vmscan.c | ||
vmstat.c | ||
workingset.c | ||
z3fold.c | ||
zbud.c | ||
zpool.c | ||
zsmalloc.c | ||
zswap.c |