The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records. The infinite loop in the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large. This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com

Signed-off-by Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
v2: remove single-page fallback

Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/xfs/kmem.c       |   18 ------------------
 fs/xfs/kmem.h       |    2 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c |    6 ++----
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

fs/xfs/kmem.c +0 ~~-18~~

@@ -24,24 +24,6 @@
 #include "kmem.h"
 #include "xfs_message.h"
 
-/*
- * Greedy allocation.  May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- */
-void *
-kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
-{
-	void		*ptr;
-	size_t		kmsize = maxsize;
-
-	while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
-		if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
-			kmsize = minsize;
-	}
-	if (ptr)
-		*size = kmsize;
-	return ptr;
-}
-
 void *
 kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {

fs/xfs/kmem.h +0 -2

@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ static inline void  kmem_free(const void
 }
 
 
-extern void *kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *, size_t, size_t);
-
 static inline void *
 kmem_zalloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {

fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c +2 -4

@@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	xfs_agino_t		agino;	/* inode # in allocation group */
 	xfs_agnumber_t		agno;	/* allocation group number */
 	xfs_btree_cur_t		*cur;	/* btree cursor for ialloc btree */
-	size_t			irbsize; /* size of irec buffer in bytes */
 	xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t	*irbuf;	/* start of irec buffer */
 	int			nirbuf;	/* size of irbuf */
 	int			ubcount; /* size of user's buffer */

@@ -378,11 +377,10 @@ xfs_bulkstat(
 	*ubcountp = 0;
 	*done = 0;
 
-	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_greedy(&irbsize, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE * 4);
+	irbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(PAGE_SIZE * 4, KM_SLEEP);
 	if (!irbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	nirbuf = irbsize / sizeof(*irbuf);
+	nirbuf = (PAGE_SIZE * 4) / sizeof(*irbuf);
 
 	/*
 	 * Loop over the allocation groups, starting from the last

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/xfs-remove-kmem_zalloc_greedy.patch