mm/page_alloc.c: ratelimit allocation failure warnings more aggressively

While investigating a bug related to higher atomic allocation failures,
we noticed the failure warnings positively drowning the console, and in
our case trigger lockup warnings because of a serial console too slow to
handle all that output.

But even if we had a faster console, it's unclear what additional
information the current level of repetition provides.

Allocation failures happen for three reasons: The machine is OOM, the VM
is failing to handle reasonable requests, or somebody is making
unreasonable requests (and didn't acknowledge their opportunism with
__GFP_NOWARN).  Having the memory dump, a callstack, and the ratelimit
stats on skipped failure warnings should provide enough information to
let users/admins/developers know whether something is wrong and point
them in the right direction for debugging, bpftracing etc.

Limit allocation failure warnings to one spew every ten seconds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: hnaz

mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -3728,10 +3728,6 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
 static void warn_alloc_show_mem(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
 {
 	unsigned int filter = SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES;
-	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(show_mem_rs, HZ, 1);
-
-	if (!__ratelimit(&show_mem_rs))
-		return;
 
 	/*
 	 * This documents exceptions given to allocations in certain
@@ -3752,8 +3748,7 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	struct va_format vaf;
 	va_list args;
-	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
-				      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
+	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, 10*HZ, 1);
 
 	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs))
 		return;