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Qu Wenruo cfc7fe2b0f btrfs: use kvcalloc for btrfs_bio::csum allocation
[BUG]
There is a report that memory allocation failed for btrfs_bio::csum
during a large read:

  b2sum: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 416120 Comm: b2sum Tainted: G        W           6.17.0 #1 NONE
  Tainted: [W]=WARN
  Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (DT)
  Call trace:
   show_stack+0x18/0x30 (C)
   dump_stack_lvl+0x5c/0x7c
   dump_stack+0x18/0x24
   warn_alloc+0xec/0x184
   __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x21c/0x730
   __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x260
   ___kmalloc_large_node+0xd4/0xf0
   __kmalloc_noprof+0x1c8/0x260
   btrfs_lookup_bio_sums+0x214/0x278
   btrfs_submit_chunk+0xf0/0x3c0
   btrfs_submit_bbio+0x2c/0x4c
   submit_one_bio+0x50/0xac
   submit_extent_folio+0x13c/0x340
   btrfs_do_readpage+0x4b0/0x7a0
   btrfs_readahead+0x184/0x254
   read_pages+0x58/0x260
   page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x170/0x24c
   page_cache_ra_order+0x360/0x3bc
   page_cache_async_ra+0x1a4/0x1d4
   filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x44/0x74
   filemap_get_pages+0x2b4/0x3b4
   filemap_read+0xc4/0x3bc
   btrfs_file_read_iter+0x70/0x7c
   vfs_read+0x1ec/0x2c0
   ksys_read+0x4c/0xe0
   __arm64_sys_read+0x18/0x24
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x5c/0x130
   do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x30
   el0_svc+0x30/0xa0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
   el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c

[CAUSE]
Btrfs needs to allocate memory for btrfs_bio::csum for large reads, so
that we can later verify the contents of the read.

However nowadays a read bio can easily go beyond BIO_MAX_VECS *
PAGE_SIZE (which is 1M for 4K page sizes), due to the multi-page bvec
that one bvec can have more than one pages, as long as the pages are
physically adjacent.

This will become more common when the large folio support is moved out
of experimental features.

In the above case, a read larger than 4MiB with SHA256 checksum (32
bytes for each 4K block) will be able to trigger a order 4 allocation.

The order 4 is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER (3), thus without
extra flags such allocation will not retry.

And if the system has very small amount of memory (e.g. RPI4 with low
memory spec) or VMs with small vRAM, or the memory is heavily
fragmented, such allocation will fail and cause the above warning.

[FIX]
Although btrfs is handling the memory allocation failure correctly, we
do not really need the physically contiguous memory just to restore
our checksum.

In fact btrfs_csum_one_bio() is already using kvzalloc() to reduce the
memory pressure.

So follow the step to use kvcalloc() for btrfs_bio::csum.

Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20251105180054.511528-1-calvin@wbinvd.org/
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2025-11-24 22:42:22 +01:00
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