[PATCH 4.14 191/496] btrfs: use kvzalloc to allocate btrfs_fs_info

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 09:19:22 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a8fd1f71749387c9a1053a83ff1c16287499a4e7 ]

The srcu_struct in btrfs_fs_info scales in size with NR_CPUS. On
kernels built with NR_CPUS=8192, this can result in kmalloc failures
that prevent mounting.

There is work in progress to try to resolve this for every user of
srcu_struct but using kvzalloc will work around the failures until
that is complete.

As an example with NR_CPUS=512 on x86_64: the overall size of
subvol_srcu is 3460 bytes, fs_info is 6496.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/super.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ static inline void free_fs_info(struct b
kfree(fs_info->super_copy);
kfree(fs_info->super_for_commit);
security_free_mnt_opts(&fs_info->security_opts);
- kfree(fs_info);
+ kvfree(fs_info);
}

/* tree mod log functions from ctree.c */
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_mount(struct
* it for searching for existing supers, so this lets us do that and
* then open_ctree will properly initialize everything later.
*/
- fs_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct btrfs_fs_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fs_info = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct btrfs_fs_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fs_info) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto error_sec_opts;