Revision 1fb9341ac34825aa40354e74d9a2c69df7d2c304 authored by Rusty Russell on 12 January 2013, 02:57:34 UTC, committed by Rusty Russell on 12 January 2013, 02:57:46 UTC
Prarit's excellent bug report:
> In recent Fedora releases (F17 & F18) some users have reported seeing
> messages similar to
>
> [   15.478160] kvm: Could not allocate 304 bytes percpu data
> [   15.478174] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=304 align=32, alloc from
> reserved chunk failed
>
> during system boot.  In some cases, users have also reported seeing this
> message along with a failed load of other modules.
>
> What is happening is systemd is loading an instance of the kvm module for
> each cpu found (see commit e9bda3b).  When the module load occurs the kernel
> currently allocates the modules percpu data area prior to checking to see
> if the module is already loaded or is in the process of being loaded.  If
> the module is already loaded, or finishes load, the module loading code
> releases the current instance's module's percpu data.

Now we have a new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, we can insert the
module into the list (and thus guarantee its uniqueness) before we
allocate the per-cpu region.

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
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Kconfig.iosched -rw-r--r-- 1.6 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 720 bytes
blk-cgroup.c -rw-r--r-- 24.2 KB
blk-cgroup.h -rw-r--r-- 13.6 KB
blk-core.c -rw-r--r-- 82.1 KB
blk-exec.c -rw-r--r-- 3.2 KB
blk-flush.c -rw-r--r-- 13.1 KB
blk-integrity.c -rw-r--r-- 11.5 KB
blk-ioc.c -rw-r--r-- 10.2 KB
blk-iopoll.c -rw-r--r-- 5.9 KB
blk-lib.c -rw-r--r-- 7.1 KB
blk-map.c -rw-r--r-- 8.2 KB
blk-merge.c -rw-r--r-- 12.7 KB
blk-settings.c -rw-r--r-- 26.3 KB
blk-softirq.c -rw-r--r-- 4.5 KB
blk-sysfs.c -rw-r--r-- 15.5 KB
blk-tag.c -rw-r--r-- 9.7 KB
blk-throttle.c -rw-r--r-- 30.8 KB
blk-timeout.c -rw-r--r-- 4.7 KB
blk.h -rw-r--r-- 7.1 KB
bsg-lib.c -rw-r--r-- 6.0 KB
bsg.c -rw-r--r-- 23.7 KB
cfq-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 108.2 KB
compat_ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 20.8 KB
deadline-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 11.1 KB
elevator.c -rw-r--r-- 23.2 KB
genhd.c -rw-r--r-- 43.3 KB
ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 10.7 KB
noop-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 2.5 KB
partition-generic.c -rw-r--r-- 14.0 KB
scsi_ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 19.6 KB

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