[Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next] net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of
xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under
memory pressure/fragmentation.

This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing
any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed.

As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Joby Poriyath <joby.poriyath@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt |    7 ++++---
 include/linux/netdevice.h               |    1 +
 net/core/dev.c                          |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                    |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt 
b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
index c7ecc70..df7cd19 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ network devices.
 struct net_device allocation rules
 ==================================
 Network device structures need to persist even after module is unloaded and
-must be allocated with kmalloc.  If device has registered successfully,
-it will be freed on last use by free_netdev.  This is required to handle the
-pathologic case cleanly (example: rmmod mydriver </sys/class/net/myeth/mtu )
+must be allocated with kmalloc() or vmalloc(). If device has registered
+successfully, it will be freed on last use by free_netdev.
+This is required to handle the pathologic case cleanly
+(example: rmmod mydriver </sys/class/net/myeth/mtu )
 
 There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of
 alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev.  These reserve extra space for driver
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index cb1d918..e6353ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1800,6 +1800,7 @@ static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device 
*dev)
 
 int netdev_refcnt_read(const struct net_device *dev);
 void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
+void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev);
 void synchronize_net(void);
 int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
 
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0054c8c..0e61365 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6196,6 +6196,16 @@ void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device 
*dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops);
 
+void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+       char *addr = (char *)dev - dev->padded;
+
+       if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
+               vfree(addr);
+       else
+               kfree(addr);
+}
+
 /**
  *     alloc_netdev_mqs - allocate network device
  *     @sizeof_priv:   size of private data to allocate space for
@@ -6239,7 +6249,9 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, 
const char *name,
        /* ensure 32-byte alignment of whole construct */
        alloc_size += NETDEV_ALIGN - 1;
 
-       p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+       p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);
+       if (!p)
+               p = vzalloc(alloc_size);
        if (!p)
                return NULL;
 
@@ -6248,7 +6260,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, 
const char *name,
 
        dev->pcpu_refcnt = alloc_percpu(int);
        if (!dev->pcpu_refcnt)
-               goto free_p;
+               goto free_dev;
 
        if (dev_addr_init(dev))
                goto free_pcpu;
@@ -6301,8 +6313,8 @@ free_pcpu:
        kfree(dev->_rx);
 #endif
 
-free_p:
-       kfree(p);
+free_dev:
+       netdev_freemem(dev);
        return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_netdev_mqs);
@@ -6339,7 +6351,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
 
        /*  Compatibility with error handling in drivers */
        if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) {
-               kfree((char *)dev - dev->padded);
+               netdev_freemem(dev);
                return;
        }
 
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index d954b56..d03f2c9 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ static void netdev_release(struct device *d)
        BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_RELEASED);
 
        kfree(dev->ifalias);
-       kfree((char *)dev - dev->padded);
+       netdev_freemem(dev);
 }
 
 static const void *net_namespace(struct device *d)



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