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lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk
authorDaniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:46:59 +0000 (17:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:43:43 +0000 (18:43 -0700)
commit62e931fac45b17c2a42549389879411572f75804
treea66bc11e84beee712de9fd2d4711d722db0edd80
parent89a2848381b5fcd9c4d9c0cd97680e3b28730e31
lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk

gen_pool_alloc_algo() iterates over the chunks of a pool trying to find
a contiguous block of memory that satisfies the allocation request.

The shortcut

if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail))
continue;

makes the loop skip over chunks that do not have enough bytes left to
fulfill the request.  There are two situations, though, where an
allocation might still fail:

(1) The available memory is not contiguous, i.e.  the request cannot
    be fulfilled due to external fragmentation.

(2) A race condition.  Another thread runs the same code concurrently
    and is quicker to grab the available memory.

In those situations, the loop calls pool->algo() to search the entire
chunk, and pool->algo() returns some value that is >= end_bit to
indicate that the search failed.  This return value is then assigned to
start_bit.  The variables start_bit and end_bit describe the range that
should be searched, and this range should be reset for every chunk that
is searched.  Today, the code fails to reset start_bit to 0.  As a
result, prefixes of subsequent chunks are ignored.  Memory allocations
might fail even though there is plenty of room left in these prefixes of
those other chunks.

Fixes: 7f184275aa30 ("lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477420604-28918-1-git-send-email-danielmentz@google.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/genalloc.c