execmem: add fallback for failures in vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)
authorMike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:17:27 +0000 (10:17 +0300)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 2 Aug 2025 19:06:11 +0000 (12:06 -0700)
commit3bd4e0ac61b2fd87d64572e866f58940d1d5fbdf
tree249ab07373e160d1cbad89b7f650aa80c53a0370
parent888b5a847ba9650f454cd0842ccf8497268da959
execmem: add fallback for failures in vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)

When execmem populates ROX cache it uses vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP).
Although vmalloc falls back to allocating base pages if high order
allocation fails, it may happen that it still cannot allocate enough
memory.

Right now ROX cache is only used by modules and in majority of cases the
allocations happen at boot time when there's plenty of free memory, but
upcoming enabling ROX cache for ftrace and kprobes would mean that execmem
allocations can happen when the system is under memory pressure and a
failure to allocate large page worth of memory becomes more likely.

Fallback to regular vmalloc() if vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP) fails.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250713071730.4117334-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/execmem.c