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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-09-17 08:27:03 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-09-22 12:00:08 -0600
commitaedcd72f6c283dffefbb8b808ae67bdd2c6eb11a (patch)
tree62b4cee6a4f3ae622068d48a00e177ad06ac04f4 /block
parent2edd2c740b2918eb0a9a1fe1b69678b903769ec2 (diff)
downloadlinux-aedcd72f6c283dffefbb8b808ae67bdd2c6eb11a.tar.bz2
blk-mq: limit memory consumption if a crash dump is active
It's not uncommon for crash dump kernels to be limited to 128MB or something low in that area. This is normally not a problem for devices as we don't use that much memory, but for some shared SCSI setups with huge queue depths, it can potentially fill most of memory with tons of request allocations. blk-mq does scale back when it fails to allocate memory, but it scales back just enough so that blk-mq succeeds. This could still leave the system with not enough memory to make any real progress. Check if we are in a kdump environment and limit the hardware queues and tag depth. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-mq.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 3b277b4eaa95..c5345a951820 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <trace/events/block.h>
@@ -1742,6 +1743,16 @@ struct request_queue *blk_mq_init_queue(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
if (!ctx)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ /*
+ * If a crashdump is active, then we are potentially in a very
+ * memory constrained environment. Limit us to 1 queue and
+ * 64 tags to prevent using too much memory.
+ */
+ if (is_kdump_kernel()) {
+ set->nr_hw_queues = 1;
+ set->queue_depth = min(64U, set->queue_depth);
+ }
+
hctxs = kmalloc_node(set->nr_hw_queues * sizeof(*hctxs), GFP_KERNEL,
set->numa_node);