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Remove the SLOB implementation.
RIP SLOB allocator (2006 - 2023)
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
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The first two patches from a series by Kees Cook [1] that introduce
kmalloc_size_roundup(). This will allow merging of per-subsystem patches using
the new function and ultimately stop (ab)using ksize() in a way that causes
ongoing trouble for debugging functionality and static checkers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/
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Resolved a conflict of modifying mm/slab.c __ksize() comment with a commit that
unifies __ksize() implementation into mm/slab_common.c
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In the effort to help the compiler reason about buffer sizes, the
__alloc_size attribute was added to allocators. This improves the scope
of the compiler's ability to apply CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and (in the near
future) CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. For most allocations, this works well,
as the vast majority of callers are not expecting to use more memory
than what they asked for.
There is, however, one common exception to this: anticipatory resizing
of kmalloc allocations. These cases all use ksize() to determine the
actual bucket size of a given allocation (e.g. 128 when 126 was asked
for). This comes in two styles in the kernel:
1) An allocation has been determined to be too small, and needs to be
resized. Instead of the caller choosing its own next best size, it
wants to minimize the number of calls to krealloc(), so it just uses
ksize() plus some additional bytes, forcing the realloc into the next
bucket size, from which it can learn how large it is now. For example:
data = krealloc(data, ksize(data) + 1, gfp);
data_len = ksize(data);
2) The minimum size of an allocation is calculated, but since it may
grow in the future, just use all the space available in the chosen
bucket immediately, to avoid needing to reallocate later. A good
example of this is skbuff's allocators:
data = kmalloc_reserve(size, gfp_mask, node, &pfmemalloc);
...
/* kmalloc(size) might give us more room than requested.
* Put skb_shared_info exactly at the end of allocated zone,
* to allow max possible filling before reallocation.
*/
osize = ksize(data);
size = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(osize);
In both cases, the "how much was actually allocated?" question is answered
_after_ the allocation, where the compiler hinting is not in an easy place
to make the association any more. This mismatch between the compiler's
view of the buffer length and the code's intention about how much it is
going to actually use has already caused problems[1]. It is possible to
fix this by reordering the use of the "actual size" information.
We can serve the needs of users of ksize() and still have accurate buffer
length hinting for the compiler by doing the bucket size calculation
_before_ the allocation. Code can instead ask "how large an allocation
would I get for a given size?".
Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup(), to serve this function so we can start
replacing the "anticipatory resizing" uses of ksize().
[1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1599
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/183
[ vbabka@suse.cz: add SLOB version ]
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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__ksize() is only called by KASAN. Remove export symbol and move
declaration to mm/slab.h as we don't want to grow its callers.
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Drop kmem_alloc event class, and define kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc
using TRACE_EVENT() macro.
And then this patch does:
- Do not pass pointer to struct kmem_cache to trace_kmalloc.
gfp flag is enough to know if it's accounted or not.
- Avoid dereferencing s->object_size and s->size when not using kmem_cache_alloc event.
- Avoid dereferencing s->name in when not using kmem_cache_free event.
- Adjust s->size to SLOB_UNITS(s->size) * SLOB_UNIT in SLOB
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Drop kmem_alloc event class, rename kmem_alloc_node to kmem_alloc, and
remove _node postfix for NUMA version of tracepoints.
This will break some tools that depend on {kmem_cache_alloc,kmalloc}_node,
but at this point maintaining both kmem_alloc and kmem_alloc_node
event classes does not makes sense at all.
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Make kmalloc_track_caller() wrapper of kmalloc_node_track_caller().
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Now that slab_alloc_node() is available for SLAB when CONFIG_NUMA=n,
remove CONFIG_NUMA ifdefs for common kmalloc functions.
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Now that only SLOB use __kmem_cache_{alloc,free}_bulk(), move them to
SLOB. No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Slab caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT force accounting for every
allocation from this cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT flag is not passed.
Unfortunately, at the moment this flag is not visible in ftrace output,
and this makes it difficult to analyze the accounted allocations.
This patch adds boolean "accounted" entry into trace output,
and set it to 'true' for calls used __GFP_ACCOUNT flag and
for allocations from caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT.
Set it to 'false' if accounting is disabled in configs.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c418ed25-65fe-f623-fbf8-1676528859ed@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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When CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is enabled we currently increase the minimum
slab alignment to 16. This happens even if MTE is not supported in
hardware or disabled via kasan=off, which creates an unnecessary memory
overhead in those cases. Eliminate this overhead by making the minimum
slab alignment a runtime property and only aligning to 16 if KASAN is
enabled at runtime.
On a DragonBoard 845c (non-MTE hardware) with a kernel built with
CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS, waiting for quiescence after a full Android boot I
see the following Slab measurements in /proc/meminfo (median of 3
reboots):
Before: 169020 kB
After: 167304 kB
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make slab alignment type `unsigned int' to avoid casting]
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I752e725179b43b144153f4b6f584ceb646473ead
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427195820.1716975-2-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Calling kmem_obj_info() via kmem_dump_obj() on KFENCE objects has been
producing garbage data due to the object not actually being maintained
by SLAB or SLUB.
Fix this by implementing __kfence_obj_info() that copies relevant
information to struct kmem_obj_info when the object was allocated by
KFENCE; this is called by a common kmem_obj_info(), which also calls the
slab/slub/slob specific variant now called __kmem_obj_info().
For completeness, kmem_dump_obj() now displays if the object was
allocated by KFENCE.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220323090520.GG16885@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220406131558.3558585-1-elver@google.com
Fixes: b89fb5ef0ce6 ("mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLUB")
Fixes: d3fb45f370d9 ("mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> [slab]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- A few non-trivial SLUB code cleanups, most notably a refactoring of
deactivate_slab().
- A bunch of trivial changes, such as removal of unused parameters,
making stuff static, and employing helper functions.
* tag 'slab-for-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
mm: slub: Delete useless parameter of alloc_slab_page()
mm: slab: Delete unused SLAB_DEACTIVATED flag
mm/slub: remove forced_order parameter in calculate_sizes
mm/slub: refactor deactivate_slab()
mm/slub: limit number of node partial slabs only in cache creation
mm/slub: use helper macro __ATTR_XX_MODE for SLAB_ATTR(_RO)
mm/slab_common: use helper function is_power_of_2()
mm/slob: make kmem_cache_boot static
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We currently allocate scope for every memcg to be able to tracked on
every superblock instantiated in the system, regardless of whether that
superblock is even accessible to that memcg.
These huge memcg counts come from container hosts where memcgs are
confined to just a small subset of the total number of superblocks that
instantiated at any given point in time.
For these systems with huge container counts, list_lru does not need the
capability of tracking every memcg on every superblock. What it comes
down to is that adding the memcg to the list_lru at the first insert.
So introduce kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate objects and its list_lru.
In the later patch, we will convert all inode and dentry allocation from
kmem_cache_alloc to kmem_cache_alloc_lru.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kmem_cache_boot is never accessed outside slob.c. Make it static.
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220217085842.29032-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
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After commit 401fb12c68c2 ("mm/sl*b: Differentiate struct slab fields by
sl*b implementations"), we can reorder fields of struct slab depending
on slab allocator.
For now, page_mapcount_reset() is called because page->_mapcount and
slab->units have same offset. But this is not necessary for struct slab.
Use unused field for units instead.
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211212065241.GA886691@odroid
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Use struct slab throughout the slob allocator. Where non-slab page can
appear use struct folio instead of struct page.
[ vbabka@suse.cz: don't introduce wrappers for PageSlobFree in mm/slab.h
just for the single callers being wrappers in mm/slob.c ]
[ Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>: fix NULL pointer deference ]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
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All three implementations of slab support kmem_obj_info() which reports
details of an object allocated from the slab allocator. By using the
slab type instead of the page type, we make it obvious that this can
only be called for slabs.
[ vbabka@suse.cz: also convert the related kmem_valid_obj() to folios ]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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In SLUB, use folios, and struct slab to access slab_cache field.
In SLOB, use folios to properly resolve pointers beyond
PAGE_SIZE offset of the object.
[ vbabka@suse.cz: use folios, and only convert folio_test_slab() == true
folios to struct slab ]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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After the memory is freed, it can be immediately allocated by other
CPUs, before the "free" trace report has been emitted. This causes
inaccurate traces.
For example, if the following sequence of events occurs:
CPU 0 CPU 1
(1) alloc xxxxxx
(2) free xxxxxx
(3) alloc xxxxxx
(4) free xxxxxx
Then they will be inaccurately reported via tracing, so that they appear
to have happened in this order:
CPU 0 CPU 1
(1) alloc xxxxxx
(2) alloc xxxxxx
(3) free xxxxxx
(4) free xxxxxx
This makes it look like CPU 1 somehow managed to allocate memory that
CPU 0 still had allocated for itself.
In order to avoid this, emit the "free xxxxxx" tracing report just
before the actual call to free the memory, instead of just after it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/374eb75d-7404-8721-4e1e-65b0e5b17279@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The mem_dump_obj() functionality adds a few hundred bytes, which is a
small price to pay. Except on kernels built with CONFIG_PRINTK=n, in
which mem_dump_obj() messages will be suppressed. This commit therefore
makes mem_dump_obj() be a static inline empty function on kernels built
with CONFIG_PRINTK=n and excludes all of its support functions as well.
This avoids kernel bloat on systems that cannot use mem_dump_obj().
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Currently, a trace record generated by the RCU core is as below.
... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=00000000f3b49a66
It doesn't tell us what the RCU core has freed.
This patch adds the slab name to trace_kmem_cache_free().
The new format is as follows.
... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=0000000037f79c8d name=dentry
... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=00000000f78cb7b5 name=sock_inode_cache
... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=0000000018768985 name=pool_workqueue
... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=000000006a6cb484 name=radix_tree_node
We can use it to understand what the RCU core is going to free. For
example, some users maybe interested in when the RCU core starts
freeing reclaimable slabs like dentry to reduce memory pressure.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201216072804.8838-1-jian.w.wen@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jacob Wen <jian.w.wen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are kernel facilities such as per-CPU reference counts that give
error messages in generic handlers or callbacks, whose messages are
unenlightening. In the case of per-CPU reference-count underflow, this
is not a problem when creating a new use of this facility because in that
case the bug is almost certainly in the code implementing that new use.
However, trouble arises when deploying across many systems, which might
exercise corner cases that were not seen during development and testing.
Here, it would be really nice to get some kind of hint as to which of
several uses the underflow was caused by.
This commit therefore exposes a mem_dump_obj() function that takes
a pointer to memory (which must still be allocated if it has been
dynamically allocated) and prints available information on where that
memory came from. This pointer can reference the middle of the block as
well as the beginning of the block, as needed by things like RCU callback
functions and timer handlers that might not know where the beginning of
the memory block is. These functions and handlers can use mem_dump_obj()
to print out better hints as to where the problem might lie.
The information printed can depend on kernel configuration. For example,
the allocation return address can be printed only for slab and slub,
and even then only when the necessary debug has been enabled. For slab,
build with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y, and either use sizes with ample space
to the next power of two or use the SLAB_STORE_USER when creating the
kmem_cache structure. For slub, build with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y and
boot with slub_debug=U, or pass SLAB_STORE_USER to kmem_cache_create()
if more focused use is desired. Also for slub, use CONFIG_STACKTRACE
to enable printing of the allocation-time stack trace.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Convert to printing and change names per Joonsoo Kim. ]
[ paulmck: Move slab definition per Stephen Rothwell and kbuild test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Handle CONFIG_MMU=n case where vmalloc() is kmalloc(). ]
[ paulmck: Apply Vlastimil Babka feedback on slab.c kmem_provenance(). ]
[ paulmck: Extract more info from !SLUB_DEBUG per Joonsoo Kim. ]
[ paulmck: Explicitly check for small pointers per Naresh Kamboju. ]
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Extracted from slab.h, which seems to have the most complete version
including the correct might_sleep() check. Roll it out to slob.c.
Motivated by a discussion with Paul about possibly changing call_rcu
behaviour to allocate memory, but only roughly every 500th call.
There are a lot fewer places in the kernel that care about whether
allocating memory is allowed or not (due to deadlocks with reclaim code)
than places that care whether sleeping is allowed. But debugging these
also tends to be a lot harder, so nice descriptive checks could come in
handy. I might have some use eventually for annotations in drivers/gpu.
Note that unlike fs_reclaim_acquire/release gfpflags_allow_blocking does
not consult the PF_MEMALLOC flags. But there is no flag equivalent for
GFP_NOWAIT, hence this check can't go wrong due to
memalloc_no*_save/restore contexts. Willy is working on a patch series
which might change this:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625113122.7540-7-willy@infradead.org/
I think best would be if that updates gfpflags_allow_blocking(), since
there's a ton of callers all over the place for that already.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125162532.1299794-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström (Intel) <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In order to prepare for per-object slab memory accounting, convert
NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE vmstat items to bytes.
To make it obvious, rename them to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B and
NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B (similar to NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB).
Internally global and per-node counters are stored in pages, however memcg
and lruvec counters are stored in bytes. This scheme may look weird, but
only for now. As soon as slab pages will be shared between multiple
cgroups, global and node counters will reflect the total number of slab
pages. However memcg and lruvec counters will be used for per-memcg slab
memory tracking, which will take separate kernel objects in the account.
Keeping global and node counters in pages helps to avoid additional
overhead.
The size of slab memory shouldn't exceed 4Gb on 32-bit machines, so it
will fit into atomic_long_t we use for vmstats.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-4-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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slab does this already, and I want to use this in a memory allocation
tracker in drm for stuff that's tied to the lifetime of a drm_device,
not the underlying struct device. Kinda like devres, but for drm.
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200323144950.3018436-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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In most configurations, kmalloc() happens to return naturally aligned
(i.e. aligned to the block size itself) blocks for power of two sizes.
That means some kmalloc() users might unknowingly rely on that
alignment, until stuff breaks when the kernel is built with e.g.
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG or CONFIG_SLOB, and blocks stop being aligned. Then
developers have to devise workaround such as own kmem caches with
specified alignment [1], which is not always practical, as recently
evidenced in [2].
The topic has been discussed at LSF/MM 2019 [3]. Adding a
'kmalloc_aligned()' variant would not help with code unknowingly relying
on the implicit alignment. For slab implementations it would either
require creating more kmalloc caches, or allocate a larger size and only
give back part of it. That would be wasteful, especially with a generic
alignment parameter (in contrast with a fixed alignment to size).
Ideally we should provide to mm users what they need without difficult
workarounds or own reimplementations, so let's make the kmalloc()
alignment to size explicitly guaranteed for power-of-two sizes under all
configurations. What this means for the three available allocators?
* SLAB object layout happens to be mostly unchanged by the patch. The
implicitly provided alignment could be compromised with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB due to redzoning, however SLAB disables redzoning for
caches with alignment larger than unsigned long long. Practically on at
least x86 this includes kmalloc caches as they use cache line alignment,
which is larger than that. Still, this patch ensures alignment on all
arches and cache sizes.
* SLUB layout is also unchanged unless redzoning is enabled through
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and boot parameter for the particular kmalloc cache.
With this patch, explicit alignment is guaranteed with redzoning as
well. This will result in more memory being wasted, but that should be
acceptable in a debugging scenario.
* SLOB has no implicit alignment so this patch adds it explicitly for
kmalloc(). The potential downside is increased fragmentation. While
pathological allocation scenarios are certainly possible, in my testing,
after booting a x86_64 kernel+userspace with virtme, around 16MB memory
was consumed by slab pages both before and after the patch, with
difference in the noise.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/c3157c8e8e0e7588312b40c853f65c02fe6c957a.1566399731.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/787740/
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixlet, per Matthew]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc()", v2.
This patch (of 2):
SLOB currently doesn't account its pages at all, so in /proc/meminfo the
Slab field shows zero. Modifying a counter on page allocation and
freeing should be acceptable even for the small system scenarios SLOB is
intended for. Since reclaimable caches are not separated in SLOB,
account everything as unreclaimable.
SLUB currently doesn't account kmalloc() and kmalloc_node() allocations
larger than order-1 page, that are passed directly to the page
allocator. As they also don't appear in /proc/slabinfo, it might look
like a memory leak. For consistency, account them as well. (SLAB
doesn't actually use page allocator directly, so no change there).
Ideally SLOB and SLUB would be handled in separate patches, but due to
the shared kmalloc_order() function and different kfree()
implementations, it's easier to patch both at once to prevent
inconsistencies.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Make working with compound pages easier", v2.
These three patches add three helpers and convert the appropriate
places to use them.
This patch (of 3):
It's unnecessarily hard to find out the size of a potentially huge page.
Replace 'PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page)' with page_size(page).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721104612.19120-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This refactors common code of ksize() between the various allocators into
slab_common.c: __ksize() is the allocator-specific implementation without
instrumentation, whereas ksize() includes the required KASAN logic.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626142014.141844-5-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently we use the page->lru list for maintaining lists of slabs. We
have a list_head in the page structure (slab_list) that can be used for
this purpose. Doing so makes the code cleaner since we are not
overloading the lru list.
The slab_list is part of a union within the page struct (included here
stripped down):
union {
struct { /* Page cache and anonymous pages */
struct list_head lru;
...
};
struct {
dma_addr_t dma_addr;
};
struct { /* slab, slob and slub */
union {
struct list_head slab_list;
struct { /* Partial pages */
struct page *next;
int pages; /* Nr of pages left */
int pobjects; /* Approximate count */
};
};
...
Here we see that slab_list and lru are the same bits. We can verify that
this change is safe to do by examining the object file produced from
slob.c before and after this patch is applied.
Steps taken to verify:
1. checkout current tip of Linus' tree
commit a667cb7a94d4 ("Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)")
2. configure and build (select SLOB allocator)
CONFIG_SLOB=y
CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT=y
3. dissasemble object file `objdump -dr mm/slub.o > before.s
4. apply patch
5. build
6. dissasemble object file `objdump -dr mm/slub.o > after.s
7. diff before.s after.s
Use slab_list list_head instead of the lru list_head for maintaining
lists of slabs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402230545.2929-4-tobin@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently we reach inside the list_head. This is a violation of the layer
of abstraction provided by the list_head. It makes the code fragile.
More importantly it makes the code wicked hard to understand.
The code reaches into the list_head structure to counteract the fact that
the list _may_ have been changed during slob_page_alloc(). Instead of
this we can add a return parameter to slob_page_alloc() to signal that the
list was modified (list_del() called with page->lru to remove page from
the freelist).
This code is concerned with an optimisation that counters the tendency for
first fit allocation algorithm to fragment memory into many small chunks
at the front of the memory pool. Since the page is only removed from the
list when an allocation uses _all_ the remaining memory in the page then
in this special case fragmentation does not occur and we therefore do not
need the optimisation.
Add a return parameter to slob_page_alloc() to signal that the allocation
used up the whole page and that the page was removed from the free list.
After calling slob_page_alloc() check the return value just added and only
attempt optimisation if the page is still on the list.
Use list_head API instead of reaching into the list_head structure to
check if sp is at the front of the list.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402230545.2929-3-tobin@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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__GFP_ZERO requests that the object be initialised to all-zeroes, while
the purpose of a constructor is to initialise an object to a particular
pattern. We cannot do both. Add a warning to catch any users who
mistakenly pass a __GFP_ZERO flag when allocating a slab with a
constructor.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180412191322.GA21205@bombadil.infradead.org
Fixes: d07dbea46405 ("Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add sparse-checked slab_flags_t for struct kmem_cache::flags (SLAB_POISON,
etc).
SLAB is bloated temporarily by switching to "unsigned long", but only
temporarily.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171021100225.GA22428@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Current flow guarantees a valid pointer when handling the __GFP_ZERO
case. So remove the unnecessary NULL pointer check.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507203141-11959-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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A while ago someone, and I cannot find the email just now, asked if we
could not implement the RECLAIM_FS inversion stuff with a 'fake' lock
like we use for other things like workqueues etc. I think this should
be possible which allows reducing the 'irq' states and will reduce the
amount of __bfs() lookups we do.
Removing the 1 IRQ state results in 4 less __bfs() walks per
dependency, improving lockdep performance. And by moving this
annotation out of the lockdep code it becomes easier for the mm people
to extend.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the
case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.
However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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synchronize_sched() is a heavy operation and calling it per each cache
owned by a memory cgroup being destroyed may take quite some time. What
is worse, it's currently called under the slab_mutex, stalling all works
doing cache creation/destruction.
Actually, there isn't much point in calling synchronize_sched() for each
cache - it's enough to call it just once - after setting cpu_partial for
all caches and before shrinking them. This way, we can also move it out
of the slab_mutex, which we have to hold for iterating over the slab
cache list.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a10d71ecae3db00fb4421bcd3f82bcc911f4be4.1475329751.git.vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When slub_debug alloc_calls_show is enabled we will try to track
location and user of slab object on each online node, kmem_cache_node
structure and cpu_cache/cpu_slub shouldn't be freed till there is the
last reference to sysfs file.
This fixes the following panic:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
IP: list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
PGD 257304067 PUD 438456067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 973074 Comm: cat ve: 0 Not tainted 3.10.0-229.7.2.ovz.9.30-00007-japdoll-dirty #2 9.30
Hardware name: DEPO Computers To Be Filled By O.E.M./H67DE3, BIOS L1.60c 07/14/2011
task: ffff88042a5dc5b0 ti: ffff88037f8d8000 task.ti: ffff88037f8d8000
RIP: list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
Call Trace:
alloc_calls_show+0x1d/0x30
slab_attr_show+0x1b/0x30
sysfs_read_file+0x9a/0x1a0
vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 5e 07 12 00 b9 00 04 00 00 3d 00 04 00 00 0f 4f c1 3d 00 04 00 00 89 45 b0 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 48 63 45 b0 49 8b 9c c4 f8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 43 20 48 85 c0 74 b6 48 89 df e8 46 37 44 00 48 8b 53 10
CR2: 0000000000000020
Separated __kmem_cache_release from __kmem_cache_shutdown which now
called on slab_kmem_cache_release (after the last reference to sysfs
file object has dropped).
Reintroduced locking in free_partial as sysfs file might access cache's
partial list after shutdowning - partial revert of the commit
69cb8e6b7c29 ("slub: free slabs without holding locks"). Zap
__remove_partial and use remove_partial (w/o underscores) as
free_partial now takes list_lock which s partial revert for commit
1e4dd9461fab ("slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed
partial")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users.
Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'. This
is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API.
A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when
specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects.
The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc
run without local IRQs disabled. With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing"
the entire c->freelist or page->freelist. To avoid overshooting we would
stop processing at a slab-page boundary. Else we always end up returning
some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg.
To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older
kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated
objects with this API change.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a81 ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE. Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise. In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.
The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f8e ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").
Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.
To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage. Both functions get described in comments.
It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly. The number of users would be small
anyway.
Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead. This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.
Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.
To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers. Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add the basic infrastructure for alloc/free operations on pointer arrays.
It includes a generic function in the common slab code that is used in
this infrastructure patch to create the unoptimized functionality for slab
bulk operations.
Allocators can then provide optimized allocation functions for situations
in which large numbers of objects are needed. These optimization may
avoid taking locks repeatedly and bypass metadata creation if all objects
in slab pages can be used to provide the objects required.
Allocators can extend the skeletons provided and add their own code to the
bulk alloc and free functions. They can keep the generic allocation and
freeing and just fall back to those if optimizations would not work (like
for example when debugging is on).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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slob_alloc_node() is only used in slob.c. Remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL and
make slob_alloc_node() static.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To speed up further allocations SLUB may store empty slabs in per cpu/node
partial lists instead of freeing them immediately. This prevents per
memcg caches destruction, because kmem caches created for a memory cgroup
are only destroyed after the last page charged to the cgroup is freed.
To fix this issue, this patch resurrects approach first proposed in [1].
It forbids SLUB to cache empty slabs after the memory cgroup that the
cache belongs to was destroyed. It is achieved by setting kmem_cache's
cpu_partial and min_partial constants to 0 and tuning put_cpu_partial() so
that it would drop frozen empty slabs immediately if cpu_partial = 0.
The runtime overhead is minimal. From all the hot functions, we only
touch relatively cold put_cpu_partial(): we make it call
unfreeze_partials() after freezing a slab that belongs to an offline
memory cgroup. Since slab freezing exists to avoid moving slabs from/to a
partial list on free/alloc, and there can't be allocations from dead
caches, it shouldn't cause any overhead. We do have to disable preemption
for put_cpu_partial() to achieve that though.
The original patch was accepted well and even merged to the mm tree.
However, I decided to withdraw it due to changes happening to the memcg
core at that time. I had an idea of introducing per-memcg shrinkers for
kmem caches, but now, as memcg has finally settled down, I do not see it
as an option, because SLUB shrinker would be too costly to call since SLUB
does not keep free slabs on a separate list. Besides, we currently do not
even call per-memcg shrinkers for offline memcgs. Overall, it would
introduce much more complexity to both SLUB and memcg than this small
patch.
Regarding to SLAB, there's no problem with it, because it shrinks
per-cpu/node caches periodically. Thanks to list_lru reparenting, we no
longer keep entries for offline cgroups in per-memcg arrays (such as
memcg_cache_params->memcg_caches), so we do not have to bother if a
per-memcg cache will be shrunk a bit later than it could be.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/118649/focus=118650
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now, we track caller if tracing or slab debugging is enabled. If they are
disabled, we could save one argument passing overhead by calling
__kmalloc(_node)(). But, I think that it would be marginal. Furthermore,
default slab allocator, SLUB, doesn't use this technique so I think that
it's okay to change this situation.
After this change, we can turn on/off CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB without full
kernel build and remove some complicated '#if' defintion. It looks more
benefitial to me.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When we create a sl[au]b cache, we allocate kmem_cache_node structures
for each online NUMA node. To handle nodes taken online/offline, we
register memory hotplug notifier and allocate/free kmem_cache_node
corresponding to the node that changes its state for each kmem cache.
To synchronize between the two paths we hold the slab_mutex during both
the cache creationg/destruction path and while tuning per-node parts of
kmem caches in memory hotplug handler, but that's not quite right,
because it does not guarantee that a newly created cache will have all
kmem_cache_nodes initialized in case it races with memory hotplug. For
instance, in case of slub:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
kmem_cache_create: online_pages:
__kmem_cache_create: slab_memory_callback:
slab_mem_going_online_callback:
lock slab_mutex
for each slab_caches list entry
allocate kmem_cache node
unlock slab_mutex
lock slab_mutex
init_kmem_cache_nodes:
for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)
allocate kmem_cache node
add kmem_cache to slab_caches list
unlock slab_mutex
online_pages (continued):
node_states_set_node
As a result we'll get a kmem cache with not all kmem_cache_nodes
allocated.
To avoid issues like that we should hold get/put_online_mems() during
the whole kmem cache creation/destruction/shrink paths, just like we
deal with cpu hotplug. This patch does the trick.
Note, that after it's applied, there is no need in taking the slab_mutex
for kmem_cache_shrink any more, so it is removed from there.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'. Conveniently,
they are unioned together. This means that code can use them
interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like with this nugget from
slab.c:
> list_del(&page->lru);
> if (page->active == cachep->num)
> list_add(&page->list, &n->slabs_full);
This patch makes the slab and slub code use page->lru universally instead
of mixing ->list and ->lru.
So, the new rule is: page->lru is what the you use if you want to keep
your page on a list. Don't like the fact that it's not called ->list?
Too bad.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so
lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes
in slob.
As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for
all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available
in general to perform large order allocations that go directly
via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if
kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations.
kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but
can only used for allocations > PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg:
"Highlights:
- Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to
init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries
(Christoph Lameter)
- CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim)
- Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li)
- SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)"
I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end
that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner
fix in between myself.
* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check
mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable
slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation
slab: fix init_lock_keys
slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible
slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0
mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo
mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials
mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab
mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h
mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
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While doing some code inspection, I noticed that the slob constructor
method can be called with a NULL pointer. If memory is tight and slob
fails to allocate with slob_alloc() or slob_new_pages() it still calls
the ctor() method with a NULL pointer. Looking at the first ctor()
method I found, I noticed that it can not handle a NULL pointer (I'm
sure others probably can't either):
static void sighand_ctor(void *data)
{
struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;
spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
init_waitqueue_head(&sighand->signalfd_wqh);
}
The solution is to only call the ctor() method if allocation succeeded.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The function names page_xchg_last_nid(), page_last_nid() and
reset_page_last_nid() were judged to be inconsistent so rename them to a
struct_field_op style pattern. As it looked jarring to have
reset_page_mapcount() and page_nid_reset_last() beside each other in
memmap_init_zone(), this patch also renames reset_page_mapcount() to
page_mapcount_reset(). There are others like init_page_count() but as
it is used throughout the arch code a rename would likely cause more
conflicts than it is worth.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix zcache]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct page already has this information. If we start chaining caches,
this information will always be more trustworthy than whatever is passed
into the function.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Extract the code to do object alignment from the allocators.
Do the alignment calculations in slab_common so that the
__kmem_cache_create functions of the allocators do not have
to deal with alignment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The definition of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is architecture dependent
and can be either of type size_t or int. Comparing that value
with ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN can cause harmless warnings on
platforms where they are different. Since both are always
small positive integer numbers, using the size_t type to compare
them is safe and gets rid of the warning.
Without this patch, building ARM collie_defconfig results in:
mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node':
mm/slob.c:431:152: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'kfree':
mm/slob.c:484:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'ksize':
mm/slob.c:503:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[ penberg@kernel.org: updates for master ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
using put_page() instead.
It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.
This is based on:
commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4
Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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This function is identically defined in all three allocators
and it's trivial to move it to slab.h
Since now it's static, inline, header-defined function
this patch also drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL tag.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Fields object_size and size are not the same: the latter might include
slab metadata. Return object_size field in kmem_cache_size().
Also, improve trace accuracy by correctly tracing reported size.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
There is no need to store the allocated size and
ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Fix up a trivial conflict with NUMA_NO_NODE cleanups.
Conflicts:
mm/slob.c
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> @@ -454,15 +455,35 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
> gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
> ret = slob_new_pages(gfp, order, node);
>
> - trace_kmalloc_node(_RET_IP_, ret,
> + trace_kmalloc_node(caller, ret,
> size, PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp, node);
> }
>
> kmemleak_alloc(ret, size, 1, gfp);
> return ret;
> }
> +
> +void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
> +{
> + return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, _RET_IP_);
> +}
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> +void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> + return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, NUMA_NO_NODE, caller);
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
> + int node, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> + return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, caller);
> +}
> +#endif
This breaks Pekka's slab/next tree with this:
mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node_track_caller':
mm/slob.c:488: error: 'gfp' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slob.c:488: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slob.c:488: error: for each function it appears in.)
mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller
"mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()" breaks the build
because gfp is undeclared. Fix it.
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Currently slob falls back to regular kmalloc for this case.
With this patch kmalloc_track_caller() is correctly implemented,
thus tracing the specified caller.
This is important to trace accurately allocations performed by
krealloc, kstrdup, kmemdup, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Get rid of the refcount stuff in the allocators and do that part of
kmem_cache management in the common code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Do the initial settings of the fields in common code. This will allow us
to push more processing into common code later and improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Shift the allocations to common code. That way the allocation and
freeing of the kmem_cache structures is handled by common code.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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What is done there can be done in __kmem_cache_shutdown.
This affects RCU handling somewhat. On rcu free all slab allocators do
not refer to other management structures than the kmem_cache structure.
Therefore these other structures can be freed before the rcu deferred
free to the page allocator occurs.
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The freeing action is basically the same in all slab allocators.
Move to the common kmem_cache_destroy() function.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Make all allocators use the "kmem_cache" slabname for the "kmem_cache"
structure.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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kmem_cache_destroy does basically the same in all allocators.
Extract common code which is easy since we already have common mutex
handling.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Move the code to append the new kmem_cache to the list of slab caches to
the kmem_cache_create code in the shared code.
This is possible now since the acquisition of the mutex was moved into
kmem_cache_create().
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Commit fd3142a59af2012a7c5dc72ec97a4935ff1c5fc6 broke
slob since a piece of a change for a later patch slipped into
it.
Fengguang Wu writes:
The commit crashes the kernel w/o any dmesg output (the attached one is
created by the script as a summary for that run). This is very
reproducible in kvm for the attached config.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status.
Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab
allocators use that definition.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Kmem_cache_create() does a variety of sanity checks but those
vary depending on the allocator. Use the strictest tests and put them into
a slab_common file. Make the tests conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
This patch has the effect of adding sanity checks for SLUB and SLOB
under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and removes the checks in SLAB for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators.
A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is
required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given.
After that it will be possible to share code that
only operates on those fields of kmem_cache.
The patch basically takes the slob definition of kmem cache and
uses the field namees for the other allocators.
It also standardizes the names used for basic object lengths in
allocators:
object_size Struct size specified at kmem_cache_create. Basically
the payload expected to be used by the subsystem.
size The size of memory allocator for each object. This size
is larger than object_size and includes padding, alignment
and extra metadata for each object (f.e. for debugging
and rcu).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Those have become so simple that they are no longer needed.
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Define the fields used by slob in mm_types.h and use struct page instead
of struct slob_page in slob. This cleans up numerous of typecasts in slob.c and
makes readers aware of slob's use of page struct fields.
[Also cleans up some bitrot in slob.c. The page struct field layout
in slob.c is an old layout and does not match the one in mm_types.h]
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Doing a ktest.pl randconfig, I stumbled across the following bug
on boot up:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/kernel/lockdep.c:2649 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xed/0x100()
Hardware name:
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc1-test-00054-g1d68b67 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810626ad>] warn_slowpath_common+0xad/0xf0
[<ffffffff8106270a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff810b537d>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xed/0x100
[<ffffffff81182fb0>] __kmalloc_node+0x30/0x2f0
[<ffffffff81153eda>] pcpu_mem_alloc+0x13a/0x180
[<ffffffff82be022c>] percpu_init_late+0x48/0xc2
[<ffffffff82bd630c>] ? mem_init+0xd8/0xe3
[<ffffffff82bbcc73>] start_kernel+0x1c2/0x449
[<ffffffff82bbc35c>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x163/0x167
[<ffffffff82bbc493>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x133/0x142^M
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Then I ran a ktest.pl config_bisect and it came up with this config
as the problem:
CONFIG_SLOB
Looking at what is different between SLOB and SLAB and SLUB, I found
that the gfp flags are masked against gfp_allowed_mask in
SLAB and SLUB, but not SLOB.
On boot up, interrupts are disabled and lockdep will warn if some flags
are set in gfp and interrupts are disabled. But these flags are masked
off with the gfp_allowed_mask during boot. Because SLOB does not
mask the flags against gfp_allowed_mask it triggers the warn on.
Adding this mask fixes the bug. I also found that kmem_cache_alloc_node()
was missing both the mask and the lockdep check, and that was added too.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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The last user was ext4 and Eric Sandeen removed the call in a recent patch. See
the following URL for the discussion:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=129546975702198&w=2
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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kmalloc_node() may allocate higher order slob pages, but the __GFP_COMP
bit is only passed to the page allocator and not represented in the
tracepoint event. The bit should be passed to trace_kmalloc_node() as
well.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
Revert "slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot"
slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode.
slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
SLUB: Constants need UL
slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
SLOB: Free objects to their own list
slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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SLOB has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce overall external
fragmentation and increase repeatability, free to their own list also.
This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine:
without this patch:
===
MemTotal: 1030720 kB
MemFree: 750012 kB
Buffers: 15496 kB
Cached: 160396 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 105024 kB
Inactive: 145604 kB
Active(anon): 74816 kB
Inactive(anon): 2180 kB
Active(file): 30208 kB
Inactive(file): 143424 kB
Unevictable: 16 kB
....
with this patch:
===
MemTotal: 1030720 kB
MemFree: 751908 kB
Buffers: 15492 kB
Cached: 160280 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 102720 kB
Inactive: 146140 kB
Active(anon): 73168 kB
Inactive(anon): 2180 kB
Active(file): 29552 kB
Inactive(file): 143960 kB
Unevictable: 16 kB
...
The result shows an improvement of 1 MB!
And when I tested it on a embeded system with 64 MB, I found this path is never
called during kernel bootup.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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kmem_cache_init_late() has been declared in slab.h
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
CC: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than
rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU
callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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'slub/fixes' into for-linus
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valid
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the
slob allocator.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
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For the sake of consistency.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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SLOB does not correctly account reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab, so it will
break memory reclaim. Account it like SLAB does.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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tracepoint part
Impact: refactor code for future changes
Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.
Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.
We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: also output kfree(NULL) entries
This patch moves the trace_kfree() calls before the ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR
check so that we can trace call-sites that call kfree() with NULL many
times which might be an indication of a bug.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <1237971957.30175.18.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to
use format specifiers to pass arguments.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
[ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build. ]
[ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled. ]
[ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
include/linux/slub_def.h
lib/Kconfig.debug
mm/slob.c
mm/slub.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits)
lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc
lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB
lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix
lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING
lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging
lockdep: use stringify.h
lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq()
lockdep: get_user_chars() redo
lockdep: simplify get_user_chars()
lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq()
lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks()
lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq()
lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3
lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers
lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers
lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq()
lockdep: generate usage strings
lockdep: generate the state bit definitions
...
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Impact: build fix
fix typo in mm/slob.c:
mm/slob.c:469: error: ‘flags’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slob.c:469: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slob.c:469: error: for each function it appears in.)
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090128135457.350751756@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'topic/slub/cleanups' and 'topic/slub/perf' into for-linus
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Don't hold SLOB lock when freeing the page. Reduces lock hold width. See
the following thread for discussion of the bug:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123709983214143&w=2
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and
added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing
to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator
in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too).
Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer
to merge worthy ;)
--
After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS
allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to
try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep.
I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to
actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark
it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common
(and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some
improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's
interrupt contexts).
I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and
even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly
code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes.
It *seems* to work. I did a quick test.
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
---------------------------------
inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage.
modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]
{in-reclaim-W} state was registered at:
[<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60
[<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0
[<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310
[<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd]
[<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
[<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
irq event stamp: 3929
hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310
hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310
softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0
softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0
other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by modprobe/8526:
#0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]
stack backtrace:
Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0
[<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0
[<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0
[<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
[<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60
[<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580
[<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310
[<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
[<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd]
[<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
[<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
[<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180
[<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190
[<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core
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Commit 7b2cd92adc5430b0c1adeb120971852b4ea1ab08 ("crypto: api - Fix
zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix
crypto.ko compilation.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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- Use NULL instead of plain 0;
- Rename slob_page() to is_slob_page();
- Define slob_page() to convert void* to struct slob_page*;
- Rename slob_new_page() to slob_new_pages();
- Define slob_free_pages() accordingly.
Compile tests only.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Impact: new tracer plugin
This patch adapts kmemtrace raw events tracing to the unified tracing API.
To enable and use this tracer, just do the following:
echo kmemtrace > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
cat /debugfs/tracing/trace
You will have the following output:
# tracer: kmemtrace
#
#
# ALLOC TYPE REQ GIVEN FLAGS POINTER NODE CALLER
# FREE | | | | | | | |
# |
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565527833 ptr 18446612134395152256
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164672 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164912 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345165152 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071566144042 ptr 18446612134346191680 bytes_req 1304 bytes_alloc 1312 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
That was to stay backward compatible with the format output produced in
inux/tracepoint.h.
This is the default ouput, but note that I tried something else.
If you change an option:
echo kmem_minimalistic > /debugfs/trace_options
and then cat /debugfs/trace, you will have the following output:
# tracer: kmemtrace
#
#
# ALLOC TYPE REQ GIVEN FLAGS POINTER NODE CALLER
# FREE | | | | | | | |
# |
- C 0xffff88007c088780 file_free_rcu
+ K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname
- C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname
+ K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname
+ K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc780 -1 d_alloc
- C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname
+ K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname
+ K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc870 -1 d_alloc
- C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname
+ K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname
+ K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc960 -1 d_alloc
+ K 1304 1312 000000d0 0xffff8800791d7340 -1 reiserfs_alloc_inode
- C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname
+ K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname
- C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname
+ K 992 1000 000000d0 0xffff880079045b58 -1 alloc_inode
+ K 768 1024 000080d0 0xffff88007c096400 -1 alloc_pipe_info
+ K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dca50 -1 d_alloc
+ K 272 320 000080d0 0xffff88007c088780 -1 get_empty_filp
+ K 272 320 000080d0 0xffff88007c088000 -1 get_empty_filp
Yeah I shall confess kmem_minimalistic should be: kmem_alternative.
Whatever, I find it more readable but this a personal opinion of course.
We can drop it if you want.
On the ALLOC/FREE column, + means an allocation and - a free.
On the type column, you have K = kmalloc, C = cache, P = page
I would like the flags to be GFP_* strings but that would not be easy to not
break the column with strings....
About the node...it seems to always be -1. I don't know why but that shouldn't
be difficult to find.
I moved linux/tracepoint.h to trace/tracepoint.h as well. I think that would
be more easy to find the tracer headers if they are all in their common
directory.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace
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This adds hooks for the SLOB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace.
We also convert some inline functions to __always_inline to make sure
_RET_IP_, which expands to __builtin_return_address(0), always works
as expected.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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The kmem_cache_create() function in the slob allocator passes the SLAB
flags as GFP flags to the slob_alloc() function. The patch changes this
call to pass GFP_KERNEL as the other allocators seem to do.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This fixes the previous fix, which was completely wrong on closer
inspection. This version has been manually tested with a user-space
test harness and generates sane values. A nearly identical patch has
been boot-tested.
The problem arose from changing how kmalloc/kfree handled alignment
padding without updating ksize to match. This brings it in sync.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly
underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could
in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun
the allocation and trample other data.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch removes the obsolete and no longer used exports of ksize.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.
Non-trivial places are:
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
This is flag day, yes.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLOB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and
PG_private. This is hidden away in slob.c. Document these overlays
explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Although slob_alloc return NULL, __kmalloc_node returns NULL + align.
Because align always can be changed, it is very hard for debugging
problem of no page if it don't return NULL.
We have to return NULL in case of no page.
[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix formatting as suggested by Matt.]
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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alignment.
This may trigger misaligned memory access exception.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yi.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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By putting smaller objects on their own list, we greatly reduce overall
external fragmentation and increase repeatability. This reduces total SLOB
overhead from > 50% to ~6% on a simple boot test.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We weren't merging freed blocks at the beginning of the free list. Fixing
this showed a 2.5% efficiency improvement in a userspace test harness.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Both slob and slub react to __GFP_ZERO by clearing the allocation, which
means that passing the GFP_ZERO bit down to the page allocator is just
wasteful and pointless.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mm/slub.c exports ksize(), but mm/slob.c and mm/slab.c don't.
It's used by binfmt_flat, which can be built as a module.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Previously, it would be possible for prev->next to point to
&free_slob_pages, and thus we would try to move a list onto itself, and
bad things would happen.
It seems a bit hairy to be doing list operations with the list marker as
an entry, rather than a head, but...
this resolves the following crash:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9379
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.
Convert
ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
to
ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
throughout the kernel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A NULL pointer means that the object was not allocated. One cannot
determine the size of an object that has not been allocated. Currently we
return 0 but we really should BUG() on attempts to determine the size of
something nonexistent.
krealloc() interprets NULL to mean a zero sized object. Handle that
separately in krealloc().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Considering kfree(NULL) would normally occur only in error paths and
kfree(ZERO_SIZE_PTR) is uncommon as well, so let's use unlikely() for the
condition check in SLUB's and SLOB's kfree() to optimize for the common
case. SLAB has this already.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The version of SLOB in -mm always scans its free list from the beginning,
which results in small allocations and free segments clustering at the
beginning of the list over time. This causes the average search to scan
over a large stretch at the beginning on each allocation.
By starting each page search where the last one left off, we evenly
distribute the allocations and greatly shorten the average search.
Without this patch, kernel compiles on a 1.5G machine take a large amount
of system time for list scanning. With this patch, compiles are within a
few seconds of performance of a SLAB kernel with no notable change in
system time.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline
functions in slab.h. Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing
functions from the slab allocators and util.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A kernel convention for many allocators is that if __GFP_ZERO is passed to an
allocator then the allocated memory should be zeroed.
This is currently not supported by the slab allocators. The inconsistency
makes it difficult to implement in derived allocators such as in the uncached
allocator and the pool allocators.
In addition the support zeroed allocations in the slab allocators does not
have a consistent API. There are no zeroing allocator functions for NUMA node
placement (kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node). The zeroing allocations are
only provided for default allocs (kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc_node).
__GFP_ZERO will make zeroing universally available and does not require any
addititional functions.
So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO.
The code is added to the hot path. The gfp flags are on the stack and so the
cacheline is readily available for checking if we want a zeroed object.
Zeroing while allocating is now a frequent operation and we seem to be
gradually approaching a 1-1 parity between zeroing and not zeroing allocs.
The current tree has 3476 uses of kmalloc vs 2731 uses of kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the
allocators. Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.
Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.
Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment
is requested via __kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize(). ksize is
provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic
way.
Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of
krealloc.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently slob is disabled if we're using sparsemem, due to an earlier
patch from Goto-san. Slob and static sparsemem work without any trouble as
it is, and the only hiccup is a missing slab_is_available() in the case of
sparsemem extreme. With this, we're rid of the last set of restrictions
for slob usage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with
small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether
asymmetric or otherwise.
We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node
placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been
specified. Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring
node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be
reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so
single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in
terms of node id. Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node
id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have
a matching node id in the page flags.
The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all
partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due
to the single spinlock). However, these are things that are being reworked
for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily
be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added.
More background can be found in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2
and subsequent threads.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the core slob allocator's minimum alignment restrictions, and instead
introduce the alignment restrictions at the slab API layer. This lets us heed
the ARCH_KMALLOC/SLAB_MINALIGN directives, and also use __alignof__ (unsigned
long) for the default alignment (which should allow relaxed alignment
architectures to take better advantage of SLOB's small minimum alignment).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the bigblock lists in favour of using compound pages and going directly
to the page allocator. Allocation size is stored in page->private, which also
makes ksize more accurate than it previously was.
Saves ~.5K of code, and 12-24 bytes overhead per >= PAGE_SIZE allocation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Improve slob by turning the freelist into a list of pages using struct page
fields, then each page has a singly linked freelist of slob blocks via a
pointer in the struct page.
- The first benefit is that the slob freelists can be indexed by a smaller
type (2 bytes, if the PAGE_SIZE is reasonable).
- Next is that freeing is much quicker because it does not have to traverse
the entire freelist. Allocation can be slightly faster too, because we can
skip almost-full freelist pages completely.
- Slob pages are then freed immediately when they become empty, rather than
having a periodic timer try to free them. This gives efficiency and memory
consumption improvement.
Then, we don't encode seperate size and next fields into each slob block,
rather we use the sign bit to distinguish between "size" or "next". Then
size 1 blocks contain a "next" offset, and others contain the "size" in
the first unit and "next" in the second unit.
- This allows minimum slob allocation alignment to go from 8 bytes to 2
bytes on 32-bit and 12 bytes to 2 bytes on 64-bit. In practice, it is
best to align them to word size, however some architectures (eg. cris)
could gain space savings from turning off this extra alignment.
Then, make kmalloc use its own slob_block at the front of the allocation
in order to encode allocation size, rather than rely on not overwriting
slob's existing header block.
- This reduces kmalloc allocation overhead similarly to alignment reductions.
- Decouples kmalloc layer from the slob allocator.
Then, add a page flag specific to slob pages.
- This means kfree of a page aligned slob block doesn't have to traverse
the bigblock list.
I would get benchmarks, but my test box's network doesn't come up with
slob before this patch. I think something is timing out. Anyway, things
are faster after the patch.
Code size goes up about 1K, however dynamic memory usage _should_ be
lower even on relatively small memory systems.
Future todo item is to restore the cyclic free list search, rather than
to always begin at the start.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is no user of destructors left. There is no reason why we should keep
checking for destructors calls in the slab allocators.
The RFC for this patch was discussed at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117882364330705&w=2
Destructors were mainly used for list management which required them to take a
spinlock. Taking a spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab
allocators may run the destructors anytime they decide a slab is no longer
needed.
Patch drops destructor support. Any attempt to use a destructor will BUG().
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The SLOB allocator should implement SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU correctly, because
even on UP, RCU freeing semantics are not equivalent to simply freeing
immediately. This also allows SLOB to be used on SMP.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLOB doesn't calculate correct page order when page size is not 4KB. This
patch fixes it with using get_order() instead of find_order() which is SLOB
version of get_order().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.
The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is
1. Never checked by SLAB at all.
2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB
3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.
The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.
The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.
Remove it.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kmem_cache_create() for slob doesn't handle SLAB_PANIC.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This introduce krealloc() that reallocates memory while keeping the contents
unchanged. The allocator avoids reallocation if the new size fits the
currently used cache. I also added a simple non-optimized version for
mm/slob.c for compatibility.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Acked-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Recent cleanup of slab.h broke SLOB allocator: the routine kmem_cache_init
has now the __init attribute for both slab.c and slob.c. This routine
cannot be removed after init in the case of slob.c -- it serves as a timer
callback.
Provide a separate timer callback routine, call it once from kmem_cache_init,
keep the __init attribute on the latter.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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More cleanups for slab.h
1. Remove tabs from weird locations as suggested by Pekka
2. Drop the check for NUMA and SLAB_DEBUG from the fallback section
as suggested by Pekka.
3. Uses static inline for the fallback defs as also suggested by Pekka.
4. Make kmem_ptr_valid take a const * argument.
5. Separate the NUMA fallback definitions from the kmalloc_track fallback
definitions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is a response to an earlier discussion on linux-mm about splitting
slab.h components per allocator. Patch is against 2.6.19-git11. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=116469577431008&w=2
This patch cleans up the slab header definitions. We define the common
functions of slob and slab in slab.h and put the extra definitions needed
for slab's kmalloc implementations in <linux/slab_def.h>. In order to get
a greater set of common functions we add several empty functions to slob.c
and also rename slob's kmalloc to __kmalloc.
Slob does not need any special definitions since we introduce a fallback
case. If there is no need for a slab implementation to provide its own
kmalloc mess^H^H^Hacros then we simply fall back to __kmalloc functions.
That is sufficient for SLOB.
Sort the function in slab.h according to their functionality. First the
functions operating on struct kmem_cache * then the kmalloc related
functions followed by special debug and fallback definitions.
Also redo a lot of comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>?
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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un-, de-, -free, -destroy, -exit, etc functions should in general return
void. Also,
There is very little, say, filesystem driver code can do upon failed
kmem_cache_destroy(). If it will be decided to BUG in this case, BUG
should be put in generic code, instead.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the atomic counter for slab_reclaim_pages and replace the counter
and NR_SLAB with two ZVC counter that account for unreclaimable and
reclaimable slab pages: NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE.
Change the check in vmscan.c to refer to to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE. The
intend seems to be to check for slab pages that could be freed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily
using the slab allocator. However, they are conceptually slab. This also
simplifies SLOB (at this point slob may be broken in mm. This should fix
it).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Convert for-loops that explicitly reference "NR_CPUS" into the
potentially more efficient for_each_possible_cpu() construct.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator
already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch
makes the allocator available for the general public.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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fix CONFIG_SLOB=y (when CONFIG_SMP=y): get rid of the 'align' parameter
from its __alloc_percpu() implementation. Boot-tested on x86.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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configurable replacement for slab allocator
This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. When CONFIG_SLAB is
disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator.
SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer,
similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's
signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all
similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more
than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems.
It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree. I've also
stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not
recommended).
Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving
nearly half a megabyte of RAM:
$ size vmlinux*
text data bss dec hex filename
3336372 529360 190812 4056544 3de5e0 vmlinux-slab
3323208 527948 190684 4041840 3dac70 vmlinux-slob
$ size mm/{slab,slob}.o
text data bss dec hex filename
13221 752 48 14021 36c5 mm/slab.o
1896 52 8 1956 7a4 mm/slob.o
/proc/meminfo:
SLAB SLOB delta
MemTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
MemFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
Buffers: 36 kB 36 kB 0 kB
Cached: 1188 kB 1188 kB 0 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Active: 608 kB 600 kB -8 kB
Inactive: 808 kB 812 kB +4 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
LowTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
LowFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Dirty: 4 kB 12 kB +8 kB
Writeback: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Mapped: 560 kB 556 kB -4 kB
Slab: 1756 kB 0 kB -1756 kB
CommitLimit: 13980 kB 13988 kB +8 kB
Committed_AS: 4208 kB 4208 kB 0 kB
PageTables: 28 kB 28 kB 0 kB
VmallocTotal: 1007312 kB 1007312 kB 0 kB
VmallocUsed: 48 kB 48 kB 0 kB
VmallocChunk: 1007264 kB 1007264 kB 0 kB
(this work has been sponsored in part by CELF)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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