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T.J. Mercier e6e07b696d alloc_tag: handle incomplete bulk allocations in vm_module_tags_populate
alloc_pages_bulk_node() may partially succeed and allocate fewer than the
requested nr_pages.  There are several conditions under which this can
occur, but we have encountered the case where CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER is enabled
causing all bulk allocations to always fallback to single page allocations
due to commit 187ad460b8 ("mm/page_alloc: avoid page allocator recursion
with pagesets.lock held").

Currently vm_module_tags_populate() immediately fails when
alloc_pages_bulk_node() returns fewer than the requested number of pages. 
When this happens memory allocation profiling gets disabled, for example

[   14.297583] [9:       modprobe:  465] Failed to allocate memory for allocation tags in the module scsc_wlan. Memory allocation profiling is disabled!
[   14.299339] [9:       modprobe:  465] modprobe: Failed to insmod '/vendor/lib/modules/scsc_wlan.ko' with args '': Out of memory

This patch causes vm_module_tags_populate() to retry bulk allocations for
the remaining memory instead of failing immediately which will avoid the
disablement of memory allocation profiling.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250409225111.3770347-1-tjmercier@google.com
Fixes: 0f9b685626 ("alloc_tag: populate memory for module tags as needed")
Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Reported-by: Janghyuck Kim <janghyuck.kim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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