Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 3 authors, 2018-06-04

Re: [PATCH 2/5] lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2018-06-02 04:42:08
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 05a4b1b8b8ce..ae17da6f0c75 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	int i;
 
 	size = sizeof(*tbl) + nbuckets * sizeof(tbl->buckets[0]);
-	if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL)
+	if ((gfp & ~__GFP_NOFAIL) != GFP_KERNEL)
 		tbl = kzalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
 	else
 		tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);
There's another GFP_KERNEL check in this function that needs the
same treatment.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -1067,9 +1067,16 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * This is api initialization and thus we need to guarantee the
+	 * initial rhashtable allocation. Upon failure, retry with the
+	 * smallest possible size with __GFP_NOFAIL semantics.
+	 */
 	tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (tbl == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (unlikely(tbl == NULL)) {
+		size = min_t(u16, ht->p.min_size, HASH_MIN_SIZE);
You mean max_t?

Thanks,
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