linux/Documentation
Shubhang Kaushik OS f6eea4d0c1 vmalloc: Modify the alloc_vmap_area() error message for better diagnostics
'vmap allocation for size %lu failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size'
The above warning is seen in the kernel functionality for allocation of
the restricted virtual memory range till exhaustion.

This message is misleading because 'vmalloc=' is supported on arm32, x86
platforms and is not a valid kernel parameter on a number of other
platforms (in particular its not supported on arm64, alpha, loongarch,
arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, parisc, m64k,
powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).  With the update, the output
gets modified to include the function parameters along with the start and
end of the virtual memory range allowed.

The warning message after fix on kernel version 6.10.0-rc1+:

vmalloc_node_range for size 33619968 failed: Address range restricted between 0xffff800082640000 - 0xffff800084650000

Backtrace with the misleading error message:

	vmap allocation for size 33619968 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size
	insmod: vmalloc error: size 33554432, vm_struct allocation failed, mode:0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
	CPU: 46 PID: 1977 Comm: insmod Tainted: G            E      6.10.0-rc1+ #79
	Hardware name: INGRASYS Yushan Server iSystem TEMP-S000141176+10/Yushan Motherboard, BIOS 2.10.20230517 (SCP: xxx) yyyy/mm/dd
	Call trace:
		dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
		show_stack+0x20/0x38
		dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
		dump_stack+0x18/0x28
		warn_alloc+0x12c/0x1b8
		__vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x28c/0x7e0
		custom_init+0xb4/0xfff8 [test_driver]
		do_one_initcall+0x60/0x290
		do_init_module+0x68/0x250
		load_module+0x236c/0x2428
		init_module_from_file+0x8c/0xd8
		__arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1b4/0x388
		invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
		el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
		do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
		el0_svc+0x3c/0x130
		el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
		el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/MN2PR01MB59025CC02D1D29516527A693F5C62@MN2PR01MB5902.prod.exchangelabs.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-15 11:31:03 -07:00
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accel
accounting
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arch Documentation: RISC-V: uabi: Only scalar misaligned loads are supported 2024-05-30 09:42:53 -07:00
block
bpf bpf, docs: Fix the description of 'src' in ALU instructions 2024-05-15 09:34:54 -07:00
cdrom scsi: sr: Fix unintentional arithmetic wraparound 2024-05-15 10:05:24 -04:00
core-api mm: remove page_mkclean() 2024-06-15 11:30:49 -07:00
cpu-freq
crypto
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devicetree for-linus-2024060801 2024-06-08 10:48:11 -07:00
doc-guide doc: fix spelling about ReStructured Text 2024-04-02 10:07:51 -06:00
driver-api Char/Misc and other driver subsystem changes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-22 12:26:46 -07:00
fault-injection
fb
features
filesystems /proc/pid/smaps: add mseal info for vma 2024-06-15 11:29:46 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide Documentation: firmware-guide: ACPI: Fix namespace typo 2024-04-26 18:58:13 +02:00
fpga
gpu Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2024-04-19' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-next 2024-04-22 12:29:18 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-6.10/intel-ish' into for-linus 2024-05-14 13:53:15 +02:00
hwmon hwmon: (emc1403) Add support for EMC1428 and EMC1438. 2024-05-12 09:02:00 -07:00
i2c
iio docs: iio: ad7944: add documentation for chain mode 2024-04-29 20:53:25 +01:00
images
infiniband
input
isdn
kbuild kconfig: doc: document behavior of 'select' and 'imply' followed by 'if' 2024-06-06 20:05:15 +09:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests Documentation/litmus-tests: Make cmpxchg() tests safe for klitmus 2024-05-06 14:29:21 -07:00
livepatch
locking
maintainer
mhi
misc-devices
mm mm: drop leftover comment references to pxx_huge() 2024-06-15 11:30:46 -07:00
netlabel
netlink netdev: add qstat for csum complete 2024-05-30 12:15:56 +02:00
networking Revert "xsk: Document ability to redirect to any socket bound to the same umem" 2024-06-05 09:43:05 +02:00
nvdimm
nvme
PCI Merge branch 'pci/enumeration' 2024-05-16 18:14:10 -05:00
pcmcia
peci
power Documentation: PM: Update platform_pci_wakeup_init() reference 2024-03-27 16:22:19 +01:00
process docs: netdev: Fix typo in Signed-off-by tag 2024-05-27 17:15:22 -07:00
RCU doc: Remove references to arrayRCU.rst 2024-04-09 15:13:05 +02:00
rust RISC-V Patches for the 6.10 Merge Window, Part 1 2024-05-22 09:56:00 -07:00
scheduler Linux 6.9-rc1 2024-03-25 11:32:29 +01:00
scsi scsi: documentation: Clean up scsi_mid_low_api.rst 2024-04-08 22:10:05 -04:00
security Another not-too-busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-05-13 10:51:53 -07:00
sound Documentation: sound: Fix trailing whitespaces 2024-05-16 16:00:30 +02:00
sphinx docs: kernel_include.py: Cope with docutils 0.21 2024-05-02 09:50:59 -06:00
sphinx-static
spi spi: pxa2xx: Drop the stale entry in documentation TOC 2024-05-07 23:53:21 +09:00
staging
target
tee Documentation: tee: Add TS-TEE driver 2024-04-03 14:03:09 +02:00
timers sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full 2024-04-28 10:07:12 +02:00
tools rtla: Documentation: Fix -t, --trace 2024-05-16 16:52:16 +02:00
trace Char/Misc and other driver subsystem changes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-22 12:26:46 -07:00
translations pci-v6.10-changes 2024-05-21 10:09:28 -07:00
usb
userspace-api mm/memfd: add documentation for MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL MFD_EXEC 2024-06-15 10:43:07 -07:00
virt powerpc updates for 6.10 2024-05-17 09:05:46 -07:00
w1
watchdog
wmi platform/x86: wmi: Add MSI WMI Platform driver 2024-04-29 12:06:21 +02:00
.gitignore
atomic_bitops.txt
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