linux.git/mm/slab.c, branch v3.18.71

mm/slab: fix unexpected index mapping result of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE+1)

2015-10-28T02:14:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 03a2d2a3eafe4015412cf4e9675ca0e2d9204074 ]

Commit description is copied from the original post of this bug:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/135349

Kernels after v3.9 use kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) to get the next
larger cache size than the size index INDEX_NODE mapping.  In kernels
3.9 and earlier we used malloc_sizes[INDEX_L3 + 1].cs_size.

However, sometimes we can't get the right output we expected via
kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1), causing a BUG().

The mapping table in the latest kernel is like:
    index = {0,   1,  2 ,  3,  4,   5,   6,   n}
     size = {0,   96, 192, 8, 16,  32,  64,   2^n}
The mapping table before 3.10 is like this:
    index = {0 , 1 , 2,   3,  4 ,  5 ,  6,   n}
    size  = {32, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 512, 2^(n+3)}

The problem on my mips64 machine is as follows:

(1) When configured DEBUG_SLAB && DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    && DEBUG_SPINLOCK, the sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node) will be "150",
    and the macro INDEX_NODE turns out to be "2": #define INDEX_NODE
    kmalloc_index(sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node))

(2) Then the result of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) is 8.

(3) Then "if(size >= kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1)" will lead to "size
    = PAGE_SIZE".

(4) Then "if ((size >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 3))" test will be satisfied and
    "flags |= CFLGS_OFF_SLAB" will be covered.

(5) if (flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB)" test will be satisfied and will go to
    "cachep->slabp_cache = kmalloc_slab(slab_size, 0u)", and the result
    here may be NULL while kernel bootup.

(6) Finally,"BUG_ON(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep->slabp_cache));" causes the
    BUG info as the following shows (may be only mips64 has this problem):

This patch fixes the problem of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) and removes
the BUG by adding 'size >= 256' check to guarantee that all necessary
small sized slabs are initialized regardless sequence of slab size in
mapping table.

Fixes: e33660165c90 ("slab: Use common kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size...")
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Reported-by: Liuhailong 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

slab: fix nodeid bounds check for non-contiguous node IDs

2014-12-03T17:36:04+00:00

The bounds check for nodeid in ____cache_alloc_node gives false
positives on machines where the node IDs are not contiguous, leading to
a panic at boot time.  For example, on a POWER8 machine the node IDs are
typically 0, 1, 16 and 17.  This means that num_online_nodes() returns
4, so when ____cache_alloc_node is called with nodeid = 16 the VM_BUG_ON
triggers, like this:

  kernel BUG at /home/paulus/kernel/kvm/mm/slab.c:3079!
  Call Trace:
    .____cache_alloc_node+0x5c/0x270 (unreliable)
    .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x360
    .init_list+0x3c/0x128
    .kmem_cache_init+0x1dc/0x258
    .start_kernel+0x2a0/0x568
    start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

To fix this, we instead compare the nodeid with MAX_NUMNODES, and
additionally make sure it isn't negative (since nodeid is an int).  The
check is there mainly to protect the array dereference in the get_node()
call in the next line, and the array being dereferenced is of size
MAX_NUMNODES.  If the nodeid is in range but invalid (for example if the
node is off-line), the BUG_ON in the next line will catch that.

Fixes: 14e50c6a9bc2 ("mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: fix unaligned access on sparc64

2014-10-14T00:18:12+00:00

Commit bf0dea23a9c0 ("mm/slab: use percpu allocator for cpu cache")
changed the allocation method for cpu cache array from slab allocator to
percpu allocator.  Alignment should be provided for aligned memory in
percpu allocator case, but, that commit mistakenly set this alignment to
0.  So, percpu allocator returns unaligned memory address.  It doesn't
cause any problem on x86 which permits unaligned access, but, it causes
the problem on sparc64 which needs strong guarantee of alignment.

Following bug report is reported from David Miller.

  I'm getting tons of the following on sparc64:

  [603965.383447] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[546b58] free_block+0x98/0x1a0
  [603965.396987] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[546b60] free_block+0xa0/0x1a0
  ...
  [603970.554394] log_unaligned: 333 callbacks suppressed
  ...

This patch provides a proper alignment parameter when allocating cpu
cache to fix this unaligned memory access problem on sparc64.

Reported-by: David Miller 
Tested-by: David Miller 
Tested-by: Meelis Roos 
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab.c: use __seq_open_private() instead of seq_open()

2014-10-10T02:25:57+00:00

Using __seq_open_private() removes boilerplate code from slabstats_open()

The resultant code is shorter and easier to follow.

This patch does not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Rob Jones 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: use percpu allocator for cpu cache

2014-10-10T02:25:51+00:00

Because of chicken and egg problem, initialization of SLAB is really
complicated.  We need to allocate cpu cache through SLAB to make the
kmem_cache work, but before initialization of kmem_cache, allocation
through SLAB is impossible.

On the other hand, SLUB does initialization in a more simple way.  It uses
percpu allocator to allocate cpu cache so there is no chicken and egg
problem.

So, this patch try to use percpu allocator in SLAB.  This simplifies the
initialization step in SLAB so that we could maintain SLAB code more
easily.

In my testing there is no performance difference.

This implementation relies on percpu allocator.  Because percpu allocator
uses vmalloc address space, vmalloc address space could be exhausted by
this change on many cpu system with *32 bit* kernel.  This implementation
can cover 1024 cpus in worst case by following calculation.

Worst: 1024 cpus * 4 bytes for pointer * 300 kmem_caches *
	120 objects per cpu_cache = 140 MB
Normal: 1024 cpus * 4 bytes for pointer * 150 kmem_caches(slab merge) *
	80 objects per cpu_cache = 46 MB

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Jeremiah Mahler 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: support slab merge

2014-10-10T02:25:51+00:00

Slab merge is good feature to reduce fragmentation.  If new creating slab
have similar size and property with exsitent slab, this feature reuse it
rather than creating new one.  As a result, objects are packed into fewer
slabs so that fragmentation is reduced.

Below is result of my testing.

* After boot, sleep 20; cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab


Slab: 25136 kB


Slab: 24364 kB

We can save 3% memory used by slab.

For supporting this feature in SLAB, we need to implement SLAB specific
kmem_cache_flag() and __kmem_cache_alias(), because SLUB implements some
SLUB specific processing related to debug flag and object size change on
these functions.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: factor out unlikely part of cache_free_alien()

2014-10-10T02:25:51+00:00

cache_free_alien() is rarely used function when node mismatch.  But, it is
defined with inline attribute so it is inlined to __cache_free() which is
core free function of slab allocator.  It uselessly makes
kmem_cache_free()/kfree() functions large.  What we really need to inline
is just checking node match so this patch factor out other parts of
cache_free_alien() to reduce code size of kmem_cache_free()/ kfree().


nm -S mm/slab.o | grep -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free"
00000000000011e0 0000000000000228 T kfree
0000000000000670 0000000000000216 T kmem_cache_free


nm -S mm/slab.o | grep -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free"
0000000000001110 00000000000001b5 T kfree
0000000000000750 0000000000000181 T kmem_cache_free

You can see slightly reduced size of text: 0x228->0x1b5, 0x216->0x181.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: noinline __ac_put_obj()

2014-10-10T02:25:50+00:00

Our intention of __ac_put_obj() is that it doesn't affect anything if
sk_memalloc_socks() is disabled.  But, because __ac_put_obj() is too
small, compiler inline it to ac_put_obj() and affect code size of free
path.  This patch add noinline keyword for __ac_put_obj() not to distrupt
normal free path at all.


nm -S slab-orig.o |
	grep -e "t cache_alloc_refill" -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free"

0000000000001e80 00000000000002f5 t cache_alloc_refill
0000000000001230 0000000000000258 T kfree
0000000000000690 000000000000024c T kmem_cache_free


nm -S slab-patched.o |
	grep -e "t cache_alloc_refill" -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free"

0000000000001e00 00000000000002e5 t cache_alloc_refill
00000000000011e0 0000000000000228 T kfree
0000000000000670 0000000000000216 T kmem_cache_free

cache_alloc_refill: 0x2f5->0x2e5
kfree: 0x256->0x228
kmem_cache_free: 0x24c->0x216

code size of each function is reduced slightly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: move cache_flusharray() out of unlikely.text section

2014-10-10T02:25:50+00:00

Now, due to likely keyword, compiled code of cache_flusharray() is on
unlikely.text section.  Although it is uncommon case compared to free to
cpu cache case, it is common case than free_block().  But, free_block() is
on normal text section.  This patch fix this odd situation to remove
likely keyword.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sl[ao]b: always track caller in kmalloc_(node_)track_caller()

2014-10-10T02:25:50+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds