Re: [PATCH] Fix large allocation in nfsd init

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday January 27, anton@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just added an NFS mount to a ppc64 box that had been up for a while.
> This required inserting the nfsd module. Unfortunately it failed:  
> 
> modprobe: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
> Trace:
> [c0000000000ba0f8] alloc_pages_current+0xc0/0xe4
> [c0000000000941fc] __get_free_pages+0x54/0x1e0
> [d00000000046f7d8] nfsd_cache_init+0x54/0x1a4 [nfsd]
> [d0000000004782cc] init_nfsd+0x30/0x2564 [nfsd]
> [c000000000084bec] sys_init_module+0x23c/0x5ac
> [c00000000001045c] ret_from_syscall_1+0x0/0xa4
> nfsd: cannot allocate 98304 bytes for reply cache
> 
> An order 5 allocation. Replace it with a vmalloc.

Given that the purpose of this order-5 allocation is to provide
storage for 1024 "struct svc_cacherep" structs, it would seem that a
better approach would be to just do 1024 kmallocs.

I'll try to knock a patch together in next week sometime.

Thanks,

NeilBrown
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