PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE defines the maximum size that can by used for the
per-CPU data size used by modules. This is 8KiB.
Commit 035fcdc4d2 ("openvswitch: Merge three per-CPU structures into
one") restructured the per-CPU memory allocation for the module and
moved the separate alloc_percpu() invocations at module init time to a
static per-CPU variable which is allocated by the module loader.
The size of the per-CPU data section for openvswitch is 6488 bytes which
is ~80% of the available per-CPU memory. Together with a few other
modules it is easy to exhaust the available 8KiB of memory.
Allocate ovs_pcpu_storage dynamically at module init time.
Reported-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c401e017-f8db-4f57-a1cd-89beb979a277@nvidia.com
Fixes: 035fcdc4d2 ("openvswitch: Merge three per-CPU structures into one")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250613123629.-XSoQTCu@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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