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Glauber Costa
d79923fad9 sl[au]b: allocate objects from memcg cache
We are able to match a cache allocation to a particular memcg.  If the
task doesn't change groups during the allocation itself - a rare event,
this will give us a good picture about who is the first group to touch a
cache page.

This patch uses the now available infrastructure by calling
memcg_kmem_get_cache() before all the cache allocations.

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>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa
b9ce5ef49f sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa
2633d7a028 slab/slub: consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cache
Allow a memcg parameter to be passed during cache creation.  When the slub
allocator is being used, it will only merge caches that belong to the same
memcg.  We'll do this by scanning the global list, and then translating
the cache to a memcg-specific cache

Default function is created as a wrapper, passing NULL to the memcg
version.  We only merge caches that belong to the same memcg.

A helper is provided, memcg_css_id: because slub needs a unique cache name
for sysfs.  Since this is visible, but not the canonical location for slab
data, the cache name is not used, the css_id should suffice.

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>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ae664dba27 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "This contains preparational work from Christoph Lameter and Glauber
  Costa for SLAB memcg and cleanups and improvements from Ezequiel
  Garcia and Joonsoo Kim.

  Please note that the SLOB cleanup commit from Arnd Bergmann already
  appears in your tree but I had also merged it myself which is why it
  shows up in the shortlog."

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code
  slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrap
  slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap
  mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creation
  slab: Simplify bootstrap
  slub: Use correct cpu_slab on dead cpu
  mm: fix slab.c kernel-doc warnings
  mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
  slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation
  mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations
  mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h
  mm/slob: Use object_size field in kmem_cache_size()
  mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations
  slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page
  sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common code
  mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.c
  mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c
  slub: remove one code path and reduce lock contention in __slab_free()
2012-12-18 10:56:07 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
b9d5ab2562 slub, hotplug: ignore unrelated node's hot-adding and hot-removing
SLUB only focuses on the nodes which have normal memory and it ignores the
other node's hot-adding and hot-removing.

Aka: if some memory of a node which has no onlined memory is online, but
this new memory onlined is not normal memory (for example, highmem), we
should not allocate kmem_cache_node for SLUB.

And if the last normal memory is offlined, but the node still has memory,
we should remove kmem_cache_node for that node.  (The current code delays
it when all of the memory is offlined)

So we only do something when marg->status_change_nid_normal > 0.
marg->status_change_nid is not suitable here.

The same problem doesn't exist in SLAB, because SLAB allocates kmem_list3
for every node even the node don't have normal memory, SLAB tolerates
kmem_list3 on alien nodes.  SLUB only focuses on the nodes which have
normal memory, it don't tolerate alien kmem_cache_node.  The patch makes
SLUB become self-compatible and avoids WARNs and BUGs in rare conditions.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
4590685546 mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code
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>
2012-12-11 12:14:28 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
dffb4d605c slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap
Simplify bootstrap by statically allocated two kmem_cache structures. These are
freed after bootup is complete. Allows us to no longer worry about calculations
of sizes of kmem_cache structures during bootstrap.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:27 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
45530c4474 mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creation
Use a special function to create kmalloc caches and use that function in
SLAB and SLUB.

Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:27 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
59a09917c9 slub: Use correct cpu_slab on dead cpu
Pass a kmem_cache_cpu pointer into unfreeze partials so that a different
kmem_cache_cpu structure than the local one can be specified.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:27 +02:00
Glauber Costa
d8843922fb slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation
Some flags are used internally by the allocators for management
purposes. One example of that is the CFLGS_OFF_SLAB flag that slab uses
to mark that the metadata for that cache is stored outside of the slab.

No cache should ever pass those as a creation flags. We can just ignore
this bit if it happens to be passed (such as when duplicating a cache in
the kmem memcg patches).

Because such flags can vary from allocator to allocator, we allow them
to make their own decisions on that, defining SLAB_AVAILABLE_FLAGS with
all flags that are valid at creation time.  Allocators that doesn't have
any specific flag requirement should define that to mean all flags.

Common code will mask out all flags not belonging to that set.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 09:13:01 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia
242860a47a mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h
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>
2012-10-31 08:52:15 +02:00
Glauber Costa
1b4f59e356 slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page
Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which
cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently.

slab uses a field called slab_cache, that lives in the third double
word. slub, uses a field called "slab", living outside of the
doublewords area.

Ideally, we could use the same field for this. Since slub heavily makes
use of the doubleword region, there isn't really much room to move
slub's slab_cache field around. Since slab does not have such strict
placement restrictions, we can move it outside the doubleword area.

The naming used by slab, "slab_cache", is less confusing, and it is
preferred over slub's generic "slab".

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 11:58:03 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
b4f591c45f Merge branch 'slab/procfs' into slab/next 2012-10-24 09:43:00 +03:00
Glauber Costa
0d7561c61d sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common code
With all the infrastructure in place, we can now have slabinfo_show
done from slab_common.c. A cache-specific function is called to grab
information about the cache itself, since that is still heavily
dependent on the implementation. But with the values produced by it, all
the printing and handling is done from common code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:39:16 +03:00
Glauber Costa
bcee6e2a13 mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.c
The header format is highly similar between slab and slub. The main
difference lays in the fact that slab may optionally have statistics
added here in case of CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, while the slub will stick them
somewhere else.

By making sure that information conditionally lives inside a
globally-visible CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB switch, we can move the header
printing to a common location.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:38:38 +03:00
Glauber Costa
b7454ad3cf mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c
This patch moves all the common machinery to slabinfo processing
to slab_common.c. We can do better by noticing that the output is
heavily common, and having the allocators to just provide finished
information about this. But after this first step, this can be done
easier.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:37:41 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
837d678dc2 slub: remove one code path and reduce lock contention in __slab_free()
When we try to free object, there is some of case that we need
to take a node lock. This is the necessary step for preventing a race.
After taking a lock, then we try to cmpxchg_double_slab().
But, there is a possible scenario that cmpxchg_double_slab() is failed
with taking a lock. Following example explains it.

CPU A               CPU B
need lock
...                 need lock
...                 lock!!
lock..but spin      free success
spin...             unlock
lock!!
free fail

In this case, retry with taking a lock is occured in CPU A.
I think that in this case for CPU A,
"release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" is preferable way.

There are two reasons for this.

First, this makes __slab_free()'s logic somehow simple.
With this patch, 'was_frozen = 1' is "always" handled without taking a lock.
So we can remove one code path.

Second, it may reduce lock contention.
When we do retrying, status of slab is already changed,
so we don't need a lock anymore in almost every case.
"release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" policy is
helpful to this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-19 10:19:24 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
f4178cdddd Merge branch 'slab/common-for-cgroups' into slab/for-linus
Fix up a trivial conflict with NUMA_NO_NODE cleanups.

Conflicts:
	mm/slob.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-03 09:56:37 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
023dc70470 Merge branch 'slab/next' into slab/for-linus 2012-10-03 09:56:12 +03:00
Fengguang Wu
788e1aadad slub: init_kmem_cache_cpus() and put_cpu_partial() can be static
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-03 09:48:41 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
2b847c3cb4 mm, slub: Rename slab_alloc() -> slab_alloc_node() to match SLAB
This patch does not fix anything, and its only goal is to enable us
to obtain some common code between SLAB and SLUB.
Neither behavior nor produced code is affected.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:18:37 +03:00
Dave Jones
645df230ca mm, sl[au]b: Taint kernel when we detect a corrupted slab
It doesn't seem worth adding a new taint flag for this, so just re-use
the one from 'bad page'

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> # SLUB
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-19 10:08:01 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
8ba00bb68a slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node()
get_partial() is currently not checking pfmemalloc_match() meaning that
it is possible for pfmemalloc pages to leak to non-pfmemalloc users.
This is a problem in the following situation.  Assume that there is a
request from normal allocation and there are no objects in the per-cpu
cache and no node-partial slab.

In this case, slab_alloc enters the slow path and new_slab_objects() is
called which may return a PFMEMALLOC page.  As the current user is not
allowed to access PFMEMALLOC page, deactivate_slab() is called
([5091b74a: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc
checks]) and returns an object from PFMEMALLOC page.

Next time, when we get another request from normal allocation,
slab_alloc() enters the slow-path and calls new_slab_objects().  In
new_slab_objects(), we call get_partial() and get a partial slab which
was just deactivated but is a pfmemalloc page.  We extract one object
from it and re-deactivate.

  "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial -> re-deactivate" occures repeatedly.

As a result, access to PFMEMALLOC page is not properly restricted and it
can cause a performance degradation due to frequent deactivation.
deactivation frequently.

This patch changes get_partial_node() to take pfmemalloc_match() into
account and prevents the "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial()
scenario.  Instead, new_slab() is called.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
9df53b154a slub: Zero initial memory segment for kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node
Tony Luck reported the following problem on IA-64:

  Worked fine yesterday on next-20120905, crashes today. First sign of
  trouble was an unaligned access, then a NULL dereference. SL*B related
  bits of my config:

  CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
  # CONFIG_SLAB is not set
  CONFIG_SLUB=y
  CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
  # CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is not set
  # CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set

  And he console log.

  PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 1, 32768 bytes)
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 7, 2097152 bytes)
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 6, 1048576 bytes)
  Memory: 2047920k/2086064k available (13992k code, 38144k reserved,
  6012k data, 880k init)
  kernel unaligned access to 0xca2ffc55fb373e95, ip=0xa0000001001be550
  swapper[0]: error during unaligned kernel access
   -1 [1]
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
  psr : 00001010084a2018 ifs : 800000000000060f ip  :
  [<a0000001001be550>]    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc4-zx1-smp-next-20120906)
  ip is at new_slab+0x90/0x680
  unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 000000000000060f rsc : 0000000000000003
  rnat: 9666960159966a59 bsps: a0000001001441c0 pr  : 9666960159965a59
  ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70433f
  csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000
  b0  : a0000001001be500 b6  : a00000010112cb20 b7  : a0000001011660a0
  f6  : 0fff7f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f7  : 0ffe8c5c1000000000000
  f8  : 1000d8000000000000000 f9  : 100068800000000000000
  f10 : 10005f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000078
  r1  : a00000010155eef0 r2  : 0000000000000000 r3  : fffffffffffc1638
  r8  : e0000040600081b8 r9  : ca2ffc55fb373e95 r10 : 0000000000000000
  r11 : e000004040001646 r12 : a000000101287e20 r13 : a000000101280000
  r14 : 0000000000004000 r15 : 0000000000000078 r16 : ca2ffc55fb373e75
  r17 : e000004040040000 r18 : fffffffffffc1646 r19 : e000004040001646
  r20 : fffffffffffc15f8 r21 : 000000000000004d r22 : a00000010132fa68
  r23 : 00000000000000ed r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : 0000000000000000
  r26 : 0000000000000001 r27 : a0000001012b8500 r28 : a00000010135f4a0
  r29 : 0000000000000000 r30 : 0000000000000000 r31 : 0000000000000001
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address
  0000000000000018)
  swapper[0]: Oops 11003706212352 [2]
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
  psr : 0000121008022018 ifs : 800000000000cc18 ip  :
  [<a0000001004dc8f1>]    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc4-zx1-smp-next-20120906)
  ip is at __copy_user+0x891/0x960
  unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 0000000000000813 rsc : 0000000000000003
  rnat: 0000000000000000 bsps: 0000000000000000 pr  : 9666960159961765
  ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c0270033f
  csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000
  b0  : a00000010004b550 b6  : a00000010004b740 b7  : a00000010000c750
  f6  : 000000000000000000000 f7  : 1003e9e3779b97f4a7c16
  f8  : 1003e0a00000010001550 f9  : 100068800000000000000
  f10 : 10005f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000078
  r1  : a00000010155eef0 r2  : a0000001012870b0 r3  : a0000001012870b8
  r8  : 0000000000000298 r9  : 0000000000000013 r10 : 0000000000000000
  r11 : 9666960159961a65 r12 : a000000101287010 r13 : a000000101280000
  r14 : a000000101287068 r15 : a000000101287080 r16 : 0000000000000298
  r17 : 0000000000000010 r18 : 0000000000000018 r19 : a000000101287310
  r20 : 0000000000000290 r21 : 0000000000000000 r22 : 0000000000000000
  r23 : a000000101386f58 r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : 000000007fffffff
  r26 : a000000101287078 r27 : a0000001013c69b0 r28 : 0000000000000000
  r29 : 0000000000000014 r30 : 0000000000000000 r31 : 0000000000000813

Sedat Dilek and Hugh Dickins reported similar problems as well.

Earlier patches in the common set moved the zeroing of the kmem_cache
structure into common code. See "Move allocation of kmem_cache into
common code".

The allocation for the two special structures is still done from SLUB
specific code but no zeroing is done since the cache creation functions
used to zero. This now needs to be updated so that the structures are
zeroed during allocation in kmem_cache_init().  Otherwise random pointer
values may be followed.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-10 09:57:19 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
aac3a1664a Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common"
This reverts commit 96d17b7be0 which
caused the following errors at boot:

  [    1.114885] kobject (ffff88001a802578): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.
  [    1.114885] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.114885] Call Trace:
  [    1.114885]  [<ffffffff81273f37>] kobject_init+0x87/0xa0
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff8127426a>] kobject_init_and_add+0x2a/0x90
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff8127c870>] ? sprintf+0x40/0x50
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.115836]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.116834]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.117835]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.117835]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.118401]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.119832]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.120325] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    1.120835] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0()
  [    1.121437] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/slab/:t-0000016'
  [    1.121831] Modules linked in:
  [    1.122138] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.122831] Call Trace:
  [    1.123074]  [<ffffffff81195ce1>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0
  [    1.123833]  [<ffffffff8103adfa>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
  [    1.124405]  [<ffffffff8103aed1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
  [    1.124832]  [<ffffffff81195ce1>] sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0
  [    1.125337]  [<ffffffff81195eb3>] create_dir+0x73/0xd0
  [    1.125832]  [<ffffffff81196221>] sysfs_create_dir+0x81/0xe0
  [    1.126363]  [<ffffffff81273d3d>] kobject_add_internal+0x9d/0x210
  [    1.126832]  [<ffffffff812742a3>] kobject_init_and_add+0x63/0x90
  [    1.127406]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.127832]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.128384]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.128833]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.129831]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.130305]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.130831]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.131351]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.131830]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.132392]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.132830]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.133315] ---[ end trace 2703540871c8fab7 ]---
  [    1.133830] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    1.134274] WARNING: at lib/kobject.c:196 kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210()
  [    1.134829] kobject_add_internal failed for :t-0000016 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
  [    1.135829] Modules linked in:
  [    1.136135] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.136828] Call Trace:
  [    1.137071]  [<ffffffff81273e95>] ? kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210
  [    1.137830]  [<ffffffff8103adfa>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
  [    1.138402]  [<ffffffff8103aed1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
  [    1.138830]  [<ffffffff811955a3>] ? release_sysfs_dirent+0x73/0xf0
  [    1.139419]  [<ffffffff81273e95>] kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210
  [    1.139830]  [<ffffffff812742a3>] kobject_init_and_add+0x63/0x90
  [    1.140429]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.140830]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.141829]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.142307]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.142829]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.143307]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.143829]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.144352]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.144829]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.145405]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.145828]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.146313] ---[ end trace 2703540871c8fab8 ]---

Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:07:44 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
cce89f4f69 mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:37 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
8a13a4cc80 mm/sl[aou]b: Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:37 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
278b1bb131 mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache allocations into common code
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
96d17b7be0 mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common
Simplify locking by moving the slab_add_sysfs after all locks have been
dropped. Eases the upcoming move to provide sysfs support for all
allocators.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
cbb79694d5 mm/sl[aou]b: Do slab aliasing call from common code
The slab aliasing logic causes some strange contortions in slub. So add
a call to deal with aliases to slab_common.c but disable it for other
slab allocators by providng stubs that fail to create aliases.

Full general support for aliases will require additional cleanup passes
and more standardization of fields in kmem_cache.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
db265eca77 mm/sl[aou]b: Move duping of slab name to slab_common.c
Duping of the slabname has to be done by each slab. Moving this code to
slab_common avoids duplicate implementations.

With this patch we have common string handling for all slab allocators.
Strings passed to kmem_cache_create() are copied internally. Subsystems
can create temporary strings to create slab caches.

Slabs allocated in early states of bootstrap will never be freed (and
those can never be freed since they are essential to slab allocator
operations).  During bootstrap we therefore do not have to worry about
duping names.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
12c3667fb7 mm/sl[aou]b: Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
8f4c765c22 mm/sl[aou]b: Move freeing of kmem_cache structure to common code
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
9b030cb865 mm/sl[aou]b: Use "kmem_cache" name for slab cache with kmem_cache struct
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
945cf2b619 mm/sl[aou]b: Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7c9adf5a54 mm/sl[aou]b: Move list_add() to slab_common.c
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>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
208c4358dc mm/slub: Use kmem_cache for the kmem_cache structure
Do not use kmalloc() but kmem_cache_alloc() for the allocation
of the kmem_cache structures in slub.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
79576102af mm/slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free()
Add additional debugging to check that the objects is actually from the cache
the caller claims. Doing so currently trips up some other debugging code. It
takes a lot to infer from that what was happening.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[ penberg@kernel.org: Use pr_err() ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
e24fc410f5 slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in put_cpu_partial() after unfreezing
In current implementation, after unfreezing, we doesn't touch oldpage,
so it remain 'NOT NULL'. When we call this_cpu_cmpxchg()
with this old oldpage, this_cpu_cmpxchg() is mostly be failed.

We can change value of oldpage to NULL after unfreezing,
because unfreeze_partial() ensure that all the cpu partial slabs is removed
from cpu partial list. In this time, we could expect that
this_cpu_cmpxchg is mostly succeed.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 10:06:42 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
19c7ff9ecd slub: Take node lock during object free checks
Only applies to scenarios where debugging is on:

Validation of slabs can currently occur while debugging
information is updated from the fast paths of the allocator.
This results in various races where we get false reports about
slab metadata not being in order.

This patch makes the fast paths take the node lock so that
serialization with slab validation will occur. Causes additional
slowdown in debug scenarios.

Reported-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 09:45:04 +03:00
Glauber Costa
d9b7f22623 slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation
When freeing objects, the slub allocator will most of the time free
empty pages by calling __free_pages(). But high-order kmalloc will be
diposed by means of put_page() instead. It makes no sense to call
put_page() in kernel pages that are provided by the object allocators,
so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves. Aside from the consistency
change, we don't change the flow too much. put_page()'s would call its
dtor function, which is __free_pages. We also already do all of the
Compound page tests ourselves, and the Mlock test we lose don't really
matter.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 09:25:03 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
5091b74a95 mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and
puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab.  For a pfmemalloc
page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which
is also used for the debug case.

This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the
following way;

1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc.
   pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is
   now pointing to a pfmemalloc page.

2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc,
   finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did
   not check pfmemalloc_match()

The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with
the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they
are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A
later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled
if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade
as smoothly.

[mgorman@suse.de: Expanded changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
Mel Gorman
072bb0aa5e mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages
When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
with swapon.  Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
systems.  The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
use of disks and thin clients.

The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block
Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download
There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at
places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The
nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap.  Despite this, the fact
is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap
is used intensively.  This patch series addresses the problem.

The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like
normal block devices do.  As the host cannot control where they receive
packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory
they might need.  Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of
patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is
carrying within their kernels.  This patch series borrows very heavily
from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to
supporting swap-over-NFS.  The bulk of the complexity is concerned with
preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use
by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS.

Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to
	preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations
	to callers that are freeing memory.

Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks

Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC
	reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC.

Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
	for later use by network packet processing.

Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required

Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set.

Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when
	the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If
	packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under
	low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets
	are dropped.

	Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking
	folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate
	pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a
	strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being
	that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should
	not fail.

Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the
	common case.

Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use
	PFMEMALLOC if necessary.

Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve
	to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on
	a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted.  It is
	expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running
	will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and
	the throttled processes are woken up.

Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled

Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on
loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and
sysbench.  Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators
reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance
variances.

For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a
swapfile backed by NBD.  8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create
anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop.  The total
size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under
memory pressure.

Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes
and runs to completion with them applied.  With SLAB, the story is
different as an unpatched kernel run to completion.  However, the patched
kernel completed the test 45% faster.

MICRO
                                         3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2
					 vanilla     swapnbd
Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write
MMTests Statistics: duration
Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             197.80    173.07
User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        206.96    182.03
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               3240.70   1762.09

This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages

Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine
hanging due to a lack of memory.  To prevent this, only callers who have
PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are
allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.  Once they are allocated to
a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects
within those slabs.  This patch limits access to slab pages that were
alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves.

When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark
are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to
determine how the page should be protected.  SLAB restricts access to any
page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to
access the PFMEMALLOC reserve.  If one is not available, an attempt is
made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve.  SLUB is a bit more
relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated
from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does
not have the necessary GFP or process flags.  This was found to be
sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining
smaller lists than SLAB.

In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail
a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are
being preserved for callers that are freeing pages.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
David Rientjes
737b719ed6 mm, slub: ensure irqs are enabled for kmemcheck
kmemcheck_alloc_shadow() requires irqs to be enabled, so wait to disable
them until after its called for __GFP_WAIT allocations.

This fixes a warning for such allocations:

	WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x14e/0x1c0()

Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-10 22:43:52 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
20cea9683e mm, sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code
Move the mutex handling into the common kmem_cache_create()
function.

Then we can also move more checks out of SLAB's kmem_cache_create()
into the 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>
2012-07-09 12:13:42 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
18004c5d40 mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition
Use the mutex definition from SLAB and make it the common way to take a sleeping lock.

This has the effect of using a mutex instead of a rw semaphore for SLUB.

SLOB gains the use of a mutex for kmem_cache_create serialization.
Not needed now but SLOB may acquire some more features later (like slabinfo
/ sysfs support) through the expansion of the common code that will
need this.

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>
2012-07-09 12:13:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
97d0660915 mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators
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>
2012-07-09 12:13:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
039363f38b mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()
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>
2012-07-09 12:13:30 +03:00
Julia Lawall
068ce415be slub: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable
If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
the end of the iterator.  The patch replaces s->name by al->name, which is
referenced nearby.

This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:04:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
43d77867a4 slub: refactoring unfreeze_partials()
Current implementation of unfreeze_partials() is so complicated,
but benefit from it is insignificant. In addition many code in
do {} while loop have a bad influence to a fail rate of cmpxchg_double_slab.
Under current implementation which test status of cpu partial slab
and acquire list_lock in do {} while loop,
we don't need to acquire a list_lock and gain a little benefit
when front of the cpu partial slab is to be discarded, but this is a rare case.
In case that add_partial is performed and cmpxchg_double_slab is failed,
remove_partial should be called case by case.

I think that these are disadvantages of current implementation,
so I do refactoring unfreeze_partials().

Minimizing code in do {} while loop introduce a reduced fail rate
of cmpxchg_double_slab. Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 33 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

** before **
Cmpxchg_double Looping
------------------------
Locked Cmpxchg Double redos   182685
Unlocked Cmpxchg Double redos 0

** after **
Cmpxchg_double Looping
------------------------
Locked Cmpxchg Double redos   177995
Unlocked Cmpxchg Double redos 1

We can see cmpxchg_double_slab fail rate is improved slightly.

Bolow is output of './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null'.

** before **
 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 50 process 4000' (30 runs):

     108517.190463 task-clock                #    7.926 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.24% )
         2,919,550 context-switches          #    0.027 M/sec                    ( +-  3.07% )
           100,774 CPU-migrations            #    0.929 K/sec                    ( +-  4.72% )
           124,201 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
   401,500,234,387 cycles                    #    3.700 GHz                      ( +-  0.24% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
   250,576,913,354 instructions              #    0.62  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.13% )
    45,934,956,860 branches                  #  423.297 M/sec                    ( +-  0.14% )
       188,219,787 branch-misses             #    0.41% of all branches          ( +-  0.56% )

      13.691837307 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.24% )

** after **
 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 50 process 4000' (30 runs):

     107784.479767 task-clock                #    7.928 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.22% )
         2,834,781 context-switches          #    0.026 M/sec                    ( +-  2.33% )
            93,083 CPU-migrations            #    0.864 K/sec                    ( +-  3.45% )
           123,967 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
   398,781,421,836 cycles                    #    3.700 GHz                      ( +-  0.22% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
   250,189,160,419 instructions              #    0.63  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.09% )
    45,855,370,128 branches                  #  425.436 M/sec                    ( +-  0.10% )
       169,881,248 branch-misses             #    0.37% of all branches          ( +-  0.43% )

      13.596272341 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.22% )

No regression is found, but rather we can see slightly better result.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 10:17:45 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
d24ac77f71 slub: use __cmpxchg_double_slab() at interrupt disabled place
get_freelist(), unfreeze_partials() are only called with interrupt disabled,
so __cmpxchg_double_slab() is suitable.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 10:13:01 +03:00
Andi Kleen
e7b691b085 slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.

Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.

Just disable this here and always use local for slab
from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
which always passed the same argument.

I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
so it's likely a regression.

v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 10:01:04 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
3b0efdfa1e mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache
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>
2012-06-14 09:20:16 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
23910c50cc Merge branch 'slub/cleanups' into slab/next
* Fix a merge conflict in mm/slub.c::acquire_slab() due to commit 02d7633
  ("slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()").

Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-04 10:14:58 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
af4f8ba31a Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab updates from Pekka Enberg:
 "Mainly a bunch of SLUB fixes from Joonsoo Kim"

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag
  slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()
  slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node()
  slub: fix a possible memory leak
  Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt
  slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial()
2012-06-01 16:50:23 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
57d437d2aa slub: pass page to node_match() instead of kmem_cache_cpu structure
Avoid passing the kmem_cache_cpu pointer to node_match. This makes the
node_match function more generic and easier to understand.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
f6e7def7f7 slub: Use page variable instead of c->page.
Store the value of c->page to avoid additional fetches
from per cpu data.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
c17dda40a6 slub: Separate out kmem_cache_cpu processing from deactivate_slab
Processing on fields of kmem_cache_cpu is cleaner if code working on fields
of this struct is taken out of deactivate_slab().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
ec3ab083a7 slub: Get rid of the node field
The node field is always page_to_nid(c->page). So its rather easy to
replace. Note that there maybe slightly more overhead in various hot paths
due to the need to shift the bits from page->flags. However, that is mostly
compensated for by a smaller footprint of the kmem_cache_cpu structure (this
patch reduces that to 3 words per cache) which allows better caching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
188fd06320 slub: new_slab_objects() can also get objects from partial list
Moving the attempt to get a slab page from the partial lists simplifies
__slab_alloc which is rather complicated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:40 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
f469743673 slub: Simplify control flow in __slab_alloc()
Simplify control flow a bit avoiding nesting.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:40 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7ced371971 slub: Acquire_slab() avoid loop
Avoid the loop in acquire slab and simply fail if there is a conflict.

This will cause the next page on the list to be considered.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:40 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
507effeaba slub: Add frozen check in __slab_alloc
Verify that objects returned from __slab_alloc come from slab pages
in the correct state.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:40 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
6faa68337b slub: Use freelist instead of "object" in __slab_alloc
The variable "object" really refers to a list of objects that we
are handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-01 09:25:40 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
c03f94ccbd slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag
To set page-flag, using SetPageXXXX() and __SetPageXXXX() is more
understandable and maintainable. So change it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-18 12:28:06 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
02d7633fa5 slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()
In the case which is below,

1. acquire slab for cpu partial list
2. free object to it by remote cpu
3. page->freelist = t

then memory leak is occurred.

Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list.
I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak.

Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

***Vanilla***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     468   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 3833856
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     111   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2004992
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:     302   Poisoning     : Off  Loss : 1828864
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      55   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

***Patched***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     300   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 2457600
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     204   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2348800
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:      33   Poisoning     : Off  Loss :  108800
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      63   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

Total and loss number is the impact of this patch.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-18 12:23:36 +03:00
majianpeng
02e1a9cd1e slub: missing test for partial pages flush work in flush_all()
I found some kernel messages such as:

    SLUB raid5-md127: kmem_cache_destroy called for cache that still has objects.
    Pid: 6143, comm: mdadm Tainted: G           O 3.4.0-rc6+        #75
    Call Trace:
    kmem_cache_destroy+0x328/0x400
    free_conf+0x2d/0xf0 [raid456]
    stop+0x41/0x60 [raid456]
    md_stop+0x1a/0x60 [md_mod]
    do_md_stop+0x74/0x470 [md_mod]
    md_ioctl+0xff/0x11f0 [md_mod]
    blkdev_ioctl+0xd8/0x7a0
    block_ioctl+0x3b/0x40
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x560
    sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Then using kmemleak I found these messages:

    unreferenced object 0xffff8800b6db7380 (size 112):
      comm "mdadm", pid 5783, jiffies 4294810749 (age 90.589s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        01 01 db b6 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  .....N..........
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 98 40 4a 82 ff ff ff ff  .........@J.....
      backtrace:
        kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
        kmem_cache_alloc+0xeb/0x1b0
        kmem_cache_open+0x2f1/0x430
        kmem_cache_create+0x158/0x320
        setup_conf+0x649/0x770 [raid456]
        run+0x68b/0x840 [raid456]
        md_run+0x529/0x940 [md_mod]
        do_md_run+0x18/0xc0 [md_mod]
        md_ioctl+0xba8/0x11f0 [md_mod]
        blkdev_ioctl+0xd8/0x7a0
        block_ioctl+0x3b/0x40
        do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x560
        sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
        system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This bug was introduced by commit a8364d5555 ("slub: only IPI CPUs that
have per cpu obj to flush"), which did not include checks for per cpu
partial pages being present on a cpu.

Signed-off-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-17 18:00:51 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
4053497d6a slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node()
We don't use the argument since commit 3b89d7d881
('slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache'), so remove it

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-16 09:45:45 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
601d39d00c slub: fix a possible memory leak
Memory allocated by kstrdup should be freed,
when kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL) is failed.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-16 09:37:25 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
de3ec03562 slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial()
Commit 497b66f2ec ('slub: return object pointer
from get_partial() / new_slab().') changed return type of some functions.
This updates missing part.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-08 08:31:57 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
532bfc851a Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - Some MM stragglers
 - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
 - Some IPI optimisations
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - IPMI
 - the radix-tree iterator work
 - various other misc bits.

 "That'll do for -rc1.  I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
  those along when they've baked a little more."

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits)
  backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
  crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
  mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
  mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
  mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
  selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
  selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
  radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
  radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
  radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
  fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
  nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
  pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
  sysctl: use bitmap library functions
  ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
  ipmi: simplify locking
  ipmi: fix message handling during panics
  ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
  ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
  ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
  ...
2012-03-28 17:19:28 -07:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef
a8364d5555 slub: only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush
flush_all() is called for each kmem_cache_destroy().  So every cache being
destroyed dynamically ends up sending an IPI to each CPU in the system,
regardless if the cache has ever been used there.

For example, if you close the Infinband ipath driver char device file, the
close file ops calls kmem_cache_destroy().  So running some infiniband
config tool on one a single CPU dedicated to system tasks might interrupt
the rest of the 127 CPUs dedicated to some CPU intensive or latency
sensitive task.

I suspect there is a good chance that every line in the output of "git
grep kmem_cache_destroy linux/ | grep '\->'" has a similar scenario.

This patch attempts to rectify this issue by sending an IPI to flush the
per cpu objects back to the free lists only to CPUs that seem to have such
objects.

The check which CPU to IPI is racy but we don't care since asking a CPU
without per cpu objects to flush does no damage and as far as I can tell
the flush_all by itself is racy against allocs on remote CPUs anyway, so
if you required the flush_all to be determinstic, you had to arrange for
locking regardless.

Without this patch the following artificial test case:

$ cd /sys/kernel/slab
$ for DIR in *; do cat $DIR/alloc_calls > /dev/null; done

produces 166 IPIs on an cpuset isolated CPU. With it it produces none.

The code path of memory allocation failure for CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
config was tested using fault injection framework.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>
Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28 17:14:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0c9aac0826 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "There's the new kmalloc_array() API, minor fixes and performance
  improvements, but quite honestly, nothing terribly exciting."

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
  slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
  slub: per cpu partial statistics change
  slub: include include for prefetch
  slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()
  slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()
  slab, cleanup: remove unneeded return
2012-03-28 15:04:26 -07:00
Mel Gorman
cc9a6c8776 cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
Commit c0ff7453bb ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of
memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit.

[get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory
barriers inserted into a number of hot paths.  This was detected while
investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time
after 2.6.32.  The largest portion of this overhead was shown by
oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page
allocator hot path.

For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an
implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex.

This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write
sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path
side.  This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86.  The
main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a
manner that can cause a false failure.

While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure
is a risk.  If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel
allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place.

In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from
__alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%.  The
actual results were

                             3.3.0-rc3          3.3.0-rc3
                             rc3-vanilla        nobarrier-v2r1
    Clients   1 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.08 (-14.19%)
    Clients   2 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  2.72%)
    Clients   4 UserTime       0.08 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  3.29%)
    Clients   1 SysTime        0.70 (  0.00%)   0.65 (  6.65%)
    Clients   2 SysTime        0.85 (  0.00%)   0.82 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 SysTime        1.41 (  0.00%)   1.41 (  0.32%)
    Clients   1 WallTime       0.77 (  0.00%)   0.74 (  4.19%)
    Clients   2 WallTime       0.47 (  0.00%)   0.45 (  3.73%)
    Clients   4 WallTime       0.38 (  0.00%)   0.37 (  1.58%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec/cpu  497620.28 (  0.00%) 520294.53 (  4.56%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec/cpu  414639.05 (  0.00%) 429882.01 (  3.68%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec/cpu  257959.16 (  0.00%) 258761.48 (  0.31%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec      495161.39 (  0.00%) 517292.87 (  4.47%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec      820325.95 (  0.00%) 850289.77 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec      1020068.93 (  0.00%) 1022674.06 (  0.26%)
    MMTests Statistics: duration
    Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             135.68    132.17
    User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)         164.2    160.13
    Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                123.46    120.87

The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much
improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these
performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected).  The
actual number of page faults is noticeably improved.

For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but
the system CPU time is slightly reduced.

To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals.  The
first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that
faulted 100M of anonymous data.  In a second window, the nodemask of the
cpuset was continually randomised in a loop.

Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually
within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine.
With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be
functionally equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
Alex Shi
8028dcea8a slub: per cpu partial statistics change
This patch split the cpu_partial_free into 2 parts: cpu_partial_node, PCP refilling
times from node partial; and same name cpu_partial_free, PCP refilling times in
slab_free slow path. A new statistic 'cpu_partial_drain' is added to get PCP
drain to node partial times. These info are useful when do PCP tunning.

The slabinfo.c code is unchanged, since cpu_partial_node is not on slow path.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-02-18 11:00:09 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
4de900b4d6 slub: include include for prefetch
Otherwise m68k breaks:

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> m68k/allmodconfig at http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/5527349/
>
> mm/slub.c:274: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetch'
>
> Sorry, didn't notice it earlier due to other build breakage in -next.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-02-10 14:47:39 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
66c4c35c6b slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()
sysfs_slab_add() calls various sysfs functions that actually may
end up in userspace doing all sorts of things.

Release the slub_lock after adding the kmem_cache structure to the list.
At that point the address of the kmem_cache is not known so we are
guaranteed exlusive access to the following modifications to the
kmem_cache structure.

If the sysfs_slab_add fails then reacquire the slub_lock to
remove the kmem_cache structure from the list.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# 3.3+
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-02-06 12:24:13 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
0ad9500e16 slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()
Recycling a page is a problem, since freelist link chain is hot on
cpu(s) which freed objects, and possibly very cold on cpu currently
owning slab.

Adding a prefetch of cache line containing the pointer to next object in
slab_alloc() helps a lot in many workloads, in particular on assymetric
ones (allocations done on one cpu, frees on another cpus). Added cost is
three machine instructions only.

Examples on my dual socket quad core ht machine (Intel CPU E5540
@2.53GHz) (16 logical cpus, 2 memory nodes), 64bit kernel.

Before patch :

# perf stat -r 32 hackbench 50 process 4000 >/dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'hackbench 50 process 4000' (32 runs):

     327577,471718 task-clock                #   15,821 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0,64% )
        28 866 491 context-switches          #    0,088 M/sec                    ( +-  1,80% )
         1 506 929 CPU-migrations            #    0,005 M/sec                    ( +-  3,24% )
           127 151 page-faults               #    0,000 M/sec                    ( +-  0,16% )
   829 399 813 448 cycles                    #    2,532 GHz                      ( +-  0,64% )
   580 664 691 740 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   70,01% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0,71% )
   197 431 700 448 stalled-cycles-backend    #   23,80% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  1,03% )
   503 548 648 975 instructions              #    0,61  insns per cycle
                                             #    1,15  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0,46% )
    95 780 068 471 branches                  #  292,389 M/sec                    ( +-  0,48% )
     1 426 407 916 branch-misses             #    1,49% of all branches          ( +-  1,35% )

      20,705679994 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0,64% )

After patch :

# perf stat -r 32 hackbench 50 process 4000 >/dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'hackbench 50 process 4000' (32 runs):

     286236,542804 task-clock                #   15,786 CPUs utilized            ( +-  1,32% )
        19 703 372 context-switches          #    0,069 M/sec                    ( +-  4,99% )
         1 658 249 CPU-migrations            #    0,006 M/sec                    ( +-  6,62% )
           126 776 page-faults               #    0,000 M/sec                    ( +-  0,12% )
   724 636 593 213 cycles                    #    2,532 GHz                      ( +-  1,32% )
   499 320 714 837 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   68,91% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  1,47% )
   156 555 126 809 stalled-cycles-backend    #   21,60% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  2,22% )
   463 897 792 661 instructions              #    0,64  insns per cycle
                                             #    1,08  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0,94% )
    87 717 352 563 branches                  #  306,451 M/sec                    ( +-  0,99% )
       941 738 280 branch-misses             #    1,07% of all branches          ( +-  3,35% )

      18,132070670 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  1,30% )

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
CC: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-01-24 21:53:57 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
2565409fc0 mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option
Move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE and rename it to HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE so architectures
can simply select the option if it is supported.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
43570fd2f4 mm,slub,x86: decouple size of struct page from CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
While implementing cmpxchg_double() on s390 I realized that we don't set
CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL despite the fact that we have support for it.

However setting that option will increase the size of struct page by
eight bytes on 64 bit, which we certainly do not want.  Also, it doesn't
make sense that a present cpu feature should increase the size of struct
page.

Besides that it looks like the dependency to CMPXCHG_LOCAL is wrong and
that it should depend on CMPXCHG_DOUBLE instead.

This patch:

If an architecture supports CMPXCHG_LOCAL this shouldn't result
automatically in larger struct pages if the SLUB allocator is used.
Instead introduce a new config option "HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE" which
can be selected if a double word aligned struct page is required.  Also
update x86 Kconfig so that it should work as before.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6296e5d3c0 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  slub: disallow changing cpu_partial from userspace for debug caches
  slub: add missed accounting
  slub: Extract get_freelist from __slab_alloc
  slub: Switch per cpu partial page support off for debugging
  slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()
  slub: fix slub_max_order Documentation
  slub: add missed accounting
  slab: add taint flag outputting to debug paths.
  slub: add taint flag outputting to debug paths
  slab: introduce slab_max_order kernel parameter
  slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to slab_max_order
2012-01-11 18:52:23 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
5878cf431c Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/for-linus 2012-01-11 21:11:29 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
fc8d8620d3 slub: min order when debug_guardpage_minorder > 0
Disable slub debug facilities and allocate slabs at minimal order when
debug_guardpage_minorder > 0 to increase probability to catch random
memory corruption by cpu exception.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
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>
2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
David Rientjes
74ee4ef1f9 slub: disallow changing cpu_partial from userspace for debug caches
For caches with debugging enabled, "slub: Switch per cpu partial page
support off for debugging" changes cpu_partial to 0.  It shouldn't be
tunable from userspace for such caches, otherwise the same accounting
issues arise during validation.

This patch disallows tuning /sys/kernel/slab/cache/cpu_partial to be non-
zero for caches with debugging enabled.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-01-10 21:31:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6b3da11b3c Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: Remove irqsafe_cpu_xxx variants

Fix up conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h due to clash with
cebef5beed ("x86: Fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double()")
which edited the (now removed) irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg*_double code.
2012-01-09 13:08:28 -08:00
Jan Beulich
cdcd629869 x86: Fix and improve cmpxchg_double{,_local}()
Just like the per-CPU ones they had several
problems/shortcomings:

Only the first memory operand was mentioned in the asm()
operands, and the 2x64-bit version didn't have a memory clobber
while the 2x32-bit one did. The former allowed the compiler to
not recognize the need to re-load the data in case it had it
cached in some register, while the latter was overly
destructive.

The types of the local copies of the old and new values were
incorrect (the types of the pointed-to variables should be used
here, to make sure the respective old/new variable types are
compatible).

The __dummy/__junk variables were pointless, given that local
copies of the inputs already existed (and can hence be used for
discarded outputs).

The 32-bit variant of cmpxchg_double_local() referenced
cmpxchg16b_local().

At once also:

 - change the return value type to what it really is: 'bool'
 - unify 32- and 64-bit variants
 - abstract out the common part of the 'normal' and 'local' variants

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F01F12A020000780006A19B@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-04 15:01:54 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
933393f58f percpu: Remove irqsafe_cpu_xxx variants
We simply say that regular this_cpu use must be safe regardless of
preemption and interrupt state.  That has no material change for x86
and s390 implementations of this_cpu operations.  However, arches that
do not provide their own implementation for this_cpu operations will
now get code generated that disables interrupts instead of preemption.

-tj: This is part of on-going percpu API cleanup.  For detailed
     discussion of the subject, please refer to the following thread.

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1222078

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112221154380.11787@router.home>
2011-12-22 10:40:20 -08:00
Shaohua Li
b13683d1cc slub: add missed accounting
With per-cpu partial list, slab is added to partial list first and then moved
to node list. The __slab_free() code path for add/remove_partial is almost
deprecated(except for slub debug). But we forget to account add/remove_partial
when move per-cpu partial pages to node list, so the statistics for such events
are always 0. Add corresponding accounting.

This is against the patch "slub: use correct parameter to add a page to
partial list tail"

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-12-13 22:27:09 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
213eeb9fd9 slub: Extract get_freelist from __slab_alloc
get_freelist retrieves free objects from the page freelist (put there by remote
frees) or deactivates a slab page if no more objects are available.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-12-13 22:17:10 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
8f1e33daed slub: Switch per cpu partial page support off for debugging
Eric saw an issue with accounting of slabs during validation. Its not
possible to determine accurately how many per cpu partial slabs exist at
any time so this switches off per cpu partial pages during debug.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-12-13 22:14:02 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
73736e0387 slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()
Zhihua Che reported a possible memleak in slub allocator on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds.

It is possible current thread migrates right before disabling irqs in
__slab_alloc(). We must check again c->freelist, and perform a normal
allocation instead of scratching c->freelist.

Many thanks to Zhihua Che for spotting this bug, introduced in 2.6.39

V2: Its also possible an IRQ freed one (or several) object(s) and
populated c->freelist, so its not a CONFIG_PREEMPT only problem.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>        [2.6.39+]
Reported-by: Zhihua Che <zhihua.che@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-12-13 22:11:21 +02:00
Shaohua Li
4c493a5a5c slub: add missed accounting
With per-cpu partial list, slab is added to partial list first and then moved
to node list. The __slab_free() code path for add/remove_partial is almost
deprecated(except for slub debug). But we forget to account add/remove_partial
when move per-cpu partial pages to node list, so the statistics for such events
are always 0. Add corresponding accounting.

This is against the patch "slub: use correct parameter to add a page to
partial list tail"

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-27 22:08:15 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
42616cacf8 Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/next 2011-11-27 22:08:03 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
bc6697d8a5 slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or corruption
show_slab_objects() can trigger NULL dereferences or memory corruption.

Another cpu can change its c->page to NULL or c->node to NUMA_NO_NODE
while we use them.

Use ACCESS_ONCE(c->page) and ACCESS_ONCE(c->node) to make sure this
cannot happen.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-24 08:44:19 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
42d623a8cd slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partial
The cmpxchg must be irq safe. The fallback for this_cpu_cmpxchg only
disables preemption which results in per cpu partial page operation
potentially failing on non x86 platforms.

This patch fixes the following problem reported by Christian Kujau:

  I seem to hit it with heavy disk & cpu IO is in progress on this
  PowerBook
  G4. Full dmesg & .config: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/

  I've enabled some debug options and now it really points to slub.c:2166

    http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops4m.jpg

  With debug options enabled I'm currently in the xmon debugger, not sure
  what to make of it yet, I'll try to get something useful out of it :)

Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@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>
2011-11-24 08:44:14 +02:00
Dave Jones
265d47e711 slub: add taint flag outputting to debug paths
When we get corruption reports, it's useful to see if the kernel was
tainted, to rule out problems we can't do anything about.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-16 21:14:40 +02:00
Shaohua Li
9ada19342b slub: move discard_slab out of node lock
Lockdep reports there is potential deadlock for slub node list_lock.
discard_slab() is called with the lock hold in unfreeze_partials(),
which could trigger a slab allocation, which could hold the lock again.

discard_slab() doesn't need hold the lock actually, if the slab is
already removed from partial list.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-15 20:41:00 +02:00
Shaohua Li
f64ae042d9 slub: use correct parameter to add a page to partial list tail
unfreeze_partials() needs add the page to partial list tail, since such page
hasn't too many free objects. We now explictly use DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL for this,
while DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL != 1. This will cause performance regression (eg, more
lock contention in node->list_lock) without below fix.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-15 20:37:15 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
798248206b lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv()
memchr_inv() is mainly used to check whether the whole buffer is filled
with just a specified byte.

The function name and prototype are stolen from logfs and the
implementation is from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
e182a345d4 Merge branches 'slab/next' and 'slub/partial' into slab/for-linus 2011-10-26 18:09:12 +03:00
Alex Shi
dcc3be6a54 slub: Discard slab page when node partial > minimum partial number
Discarding slab should be done when node partial > min_partial.  Otherwise,
node partial slab may eat up all memory.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-09-27 23:03:31 +03:00
Alex Shi
9f26490412 slub: correct comments error for per cpu partial
Correct comment errors, that mistake cpu partial objects number as pages
number, may make reader misunderstand.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-09-27 23:03:30 +03:00
Vasiliy Kulikov
ab067e99d2 mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs
Historically /proc/slabinfo and files under /sys/kernel/slab/* have
world read permissions and are accessible to the world.  slabinfo
contains rather private information related both to the kernel and
userspace tasks.  Depending on the situation, it might reveal either
private information per se or information useful to make another
targeted attack.  Some examples of what can be learned by
reading/watching for /proc/slabinfo entries:

1) dentry (and different *inode*) number might reveal other processes fs
activity.  The number of dentry "active objects" doesn't strictly show
file count opened/touched by a process, however, there is a good
correlation between them.  The patch "proc: force dcache drop on
unauthorized access" relies on the privacy of dentry count.

2) different inode entries might reveal the same information as (1), but
these are more fine granted counters.  If a filesystem is mounted in a
private mount point (or even a private namespace) and fs type differs from
other mounted fs types, fs activity in this mount point/namespace is
revealed.  If there is a single ecryptfs mount point, the whole fs
activity of a single user is revealed.  Number of files in ecryptfs
mount point is a private information per se.

3) fuse_* reveals number of files / fs activity of a user in a user
private mount point.  It is approx. the same severity as ecryptfs
infoleak in (2).

4) sysfs_dir_cache similar to (2) reveals devices' addition/removal,
which can be otherwise hidden by "chmod 0700 /sys/".  With 0444 slabinfo
the precise number of sysfs files is known to the world.

5) buffer_head might reveal some kernel activity.  With other
information leaks an attacker might identify what specific kernel
routines generate buffer_head activity.

6) *kmalloc* infoleaks are very situational.  Attacker should watch for
the specific kmalloc size entry and filter the noise related to the unrelated
kernel activity.  If an attacker has relatively silent victim system, he
might get rather precise counters.

Additional information sources might significantly increase the slabinfo
infoleak benefits.  E.g. if an attacker knows that the processes
activity on the system is very low (only core daemons like syslog and
cron), he may run setxid binaries / trigger local daemon activity /
trigger network services activity / await sporadic cron jobs activity
/ etc. and get rather precise counters for fs and network activity of
these privileged tasks, which is unknown otherwise.

Also hiding slabinfo and /sys/kernel/slab/* is a one step to complicate
exploitation of kernel heap overflows (and possibly, other bugs).  The
related discussion:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1108378

To keep compatibility with old permission model where non-root
monitoring daemon could watch for kernel memleaks though slabinfo one
should do:

    groupadd slabinfo
    usermod -a -G slabinfo $MONITOR_USER

And add the following commands to init scripts (to mountall.conf in
Ubuntu's upstart case):

    chmod g+r /proc/slabinfo /sys/kernel/slab/*/*
    chgrp slabinfo /proc/slabinfo /sys/kernel/slab/*/*

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-09-27 22:59:27 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
d20bbfab01 Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/next 2011-09-19 17:46:07 +03:00
Alex,Shi
12d79634f8 slub: Code optimization in get_partial_node()
I find a way to reduce a variable in get_partial_node(). That is also helpful
for code understanding.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-09-13 20:41:25 +03:00
Shaohua Li
136333d104 slub: explicitly document position of inserting slab to partial list
Adding slab to partial list head/tail is sensitive to performance.
So explicitly uses DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL/DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD to document
it to avoid we get it wrong.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-27 11:59:00 +03:00
Shaohua Li
130655ef09 slub: add slab with one free object to partial list tail
The slab has just one free object, adding it to partial list head doesn't make
sense. And it can cause lock contentation. For example,
1. CPU takes the slab from partial list
2. fetch an object
3. switch to another slab
4. free an object, then the slab is added to partial list again
In this way n->list_lock will be heavily contended.
In fact, Alex had a hackbench regression. 3.1-rc1 performance drops about 70%
against 3.0. This patch fixes it.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-27 11:58:59 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
49e2258586 slub: per cpu cache for partial pages
Allow filling out the rest of the kmem_cache_cpu cacheline with pointers to
partial pages. The partial page list is used in slab_free() to avoid
per node lock taking.

In __slab_alloc() we can then take multiple partial pages off the per
node partial list in one go reducing node lock pressure.

We can also use the per cpu partial list in slab_alloc() to avoid scanning
partial lists for pages with free objects.

The main effect of a per cpu partial list is that the per node list_lock
is taken for batches of partial pages instead of individual ones.

Potential future enhancements:

1. The pickup from the partial list could be perhaps be done without disabling
   interrupts with some work. The free path already puts the page into the
   per cpu partial list without disabling interrupts.

2. __slab_free() may have some code paths that could use optimization.

Performance:

				Before		After
./hackbench 100 process 200000
				Time: 1953.047	1564.614
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 207.176   156.940
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 204.468	156.940
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 204.879	158.772
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 20.153	15.853
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 20.153	15.986
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 19.363	16.111
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.518	2.307
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.258	2.339
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.864	2.163

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:27 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
497b66f2ec slub: return object pointer from get_partial() / new_slab().
There is no need anymore to return the pointer to a slab page from get_partial()
since the page reference can be stored in the kmem_cache_cpu structures "page" field.

Return an object pointer instead.

That in turn allows a simplification of the spaghetti code in __slab_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:27 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
acd19fd1a7 slub: pass kmem_cache_cpu pointer to get_partial()
Pass the kmem_cache_cpu pointer to get_partial(). That way
we can avoid the this_cpu_write() statements.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:26 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
e6e82ea112 slub: Prepare inuse field in new_slab()
inuse will always be set to page->objects. There is no point in
initializing the field to zero in new_slab() and then overwriting
the value in __slab_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:26 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7db0d70540 slub: Remove useless statements in __slab_alloc
Two statements in __slab_alloc() do not have any effect.

1. c->page is already set to NULL by deactivate_slab() called right before.

2. gfpflags are masked in new_slab() before being passed to the page
   allocator. There is no need to mask gfpflags in __slab_alloc in particular
   since most frequent processing in __slab_alloc does not require the use of a
   gfpmask.

Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:25 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
69cb8e6b7c slub: free slabs without holding locks
There are two situations in which slub holds a lock while releasing
pages:

	A. During kmem_cache_shrink()
	B. During kmem_cache_close()

For A build a list while holding the lock and then release the pages
later. In case of B we are the last remaining user of the slab so
there is no need to take the listlock.

After this patch all calls to the page allocator to free pages are
done without holding any spinlocks. kmem_cache_destroy() will still
hold the slub_lock semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-19 19:34:25 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
81107188f1 slub: Fix partial count comparison confusion
deactivate_slab() has the comparison if more than the minimum number of
partial pages are in the partial list wrong. An effect of this may be that
empty pages are not freed from deactivate_slab(). The result could be an
OOM due to growth of the partial slabs per node. Frees mostly occur from
__slab_free which is okay so this would only affect use cases where a lot
of switching around of per cpu slabs occur.

Switching per cpu slabs occurs with high frequency if debugging options are
enabled.

Reported-and-tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-09 21:12:31 +03:00
Akinobu Mita
ef62fb32b7 slub: fix check_bytes() for slub debugging
The check_bytes() function is used by slub debugging.  It returns a pointer
to the first unmatching byte for a character in the given memory area.

If the character for matching byte is greater than 0x80, check_bytes()
doesn't work.  Becuase 64-bit pattern is generated as below.

	value64 = value | value << 8 | value << 16 | value << 24;
	value64 = value64 | value64 << 32;

The integer promotions are performed and sign-extended as the type of value
is u8.  The upper 32 bits of value64 is 0xffffffff in the first line, and
the second line has no effect.

This fixes the 64-bit pattern generation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-09 16:37:48 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
6fbabb20fa slub: Fix full list corruption if debugging is on
When a slab is freed by __slab_free() and the slab can only contain a
single object ever then it was full (and therefore not on the partial
lists but on the full list in the debug case) before we reached
slab_empty.

This caused the following full list corruption when SLUB debugging was enabled:

  [ 5913.233035] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [ 5913.233097] WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98()
  [ 5913.233101] Hardware name: Adamo 13
  [ 5913.233105] list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffea000434fd20, but was ffffea0004199520
  [ 5913.233108] Modules linked in: nfs fscache fuse ebtable_nat ebtables ppdev parport_pc lp parport ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss xt_CHECKSUM sunrpc iptable_mangle bridge stp llc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables rfcomm bnep arc4 iwlagn snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_intel btusb mac80211 snd_hda_codec bluetooth snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm usb_debug dell_wmi sparse_keymap cdc_ether usbnet cdc_acm uvcvideo cdc_wdm mii cfg80211 snd_timer dell_laptop videodev dcdbas snd microcode v4l2_compat_ioctl32 soundcore joydev tg3 pcspkr snd_page_alloc iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 rfkill iTCO_vendor_support wmi virtio_net kvm_intel kvm ipv6 xts gf128mul dm_crypt i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
  [ 5913.233213] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0+ #127
  [ 5913.233213] Call Trace:
  [ 5913.233213]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8105df18>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8105dfd3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8127e7c1>] __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8127e7da>] list_del+0xe/0x2d
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff814e0430>] __slab_free+0x1db/0x235
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff81133085>] kmem_cache_free+0x88/0x102
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706e1>] bio_free+0x34/0x64
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff813dc390>] dm_bio_destructor+0x12/0x14
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8116fef6>] bio_put+0x2b/0x2d
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff813dccab>] clone_endio+0x9e/0xb4
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8116f7dd>] bio_endio+0x2d/0x2f
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffffa00148da>] crypt_dec_pending+0x5c/0x8b [dm_crypt]
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffffa00150a9>] crypt_endio+0x78/0x81 [dm_crypt]

[ Full discussion here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/4/375 ]

Make sure that we remove such a slab also from the full lists.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-09 16:36:02 +03:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
ffc79d2880 slub: use print_hex_dump
Less code and same functionality. The output would be:

| Object c7428000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
| Object c7428010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
| Object c7428020: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
| Object c7428030: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5              kkkkkkkkkkk.
| Redzone c742803c: bb bb bb bb                                      ....
| Padding c7428064: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
| Padding c7428074: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a              ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-31 19:16:48 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
c11abbbaa3 Merge branch 'slub/lockless' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slub/lockless' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: (21 commits)
  slub: When allocating a new slab also prep the first object
  slub: disable interrupts in cmpxchg_double_slab when falling back to pagelock
  Avoid duplicate _count variables in page_struct
  Revert "SLUB: Fix build breakage in linux/mm_types.h"
  SLUB: Fix build breakage in linux/mm_types.h
  slub: slabinfo update for cmpxchg handling
  slub: Not necessary to check for empty slab on load_freelist
  slub: fast release on full slab
  slub: Add statistics for the case that the current slab does not match the node
  slub: Get rid of the another_slab label
  slub: Avoid disabling interrupts in free slowpath
  slub: Disable interrupts in free_debug processing
  slub: Invert locking and avoid slab lock
  slub: Rework allocator fastpaths
  slub: Pass kmem_cache struct to lock and freeze slab
  slub: explicit list_lock taking
  slub: Add cmpxchg_double_slab()
  mm: Rearrange struct page
  slub: Move page->frozen handling near where the page->freelist handling occurs
  slub: Do not use frozen page flag but a bit in the page counters
  ...
2011-07-30 08:21:48 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
d3ec4844d4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
9e577e8b46 slub: When allocating a new slab also prep the first object
We need to branch to the debug code for the first object if we allocate
a new slab otherwise the first object will be marked wrongly as inactive.

Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-25 20:58:19 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
f99b7880cb Merge branch 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warning
  slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
  slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build
  SLUB: Fix missing <linux/stacktrace.h> include
  slub: reduce overhead of slub_debug
  slub: Add method to verify memory is not freed
  slub: Enable backtrace for create/delete points
  slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment defines
  slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definition
  slob/lockdep: Fix gfp flags passed to lockdep
2011-07-22 12:44:30 -07:00
Phil Carmody
497888cf69 treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
All these are instances of
  #define NAME value;
or
  #define NAME(params_opt) value;

These of course fail to build when used in contexts like
  if(foo $OP NAME)
  while(bar $OP NAME)
and may silently generate the wrong code in contexts such as
  foo = NAME + 1;    /* foo = value; + 1; */
  bar = NAME - 1;    /* bar = value; - 1; */
  baz = NAME & quux; /* baz = value; & quux; */

Reported on comp.lang.c,
Message-ID: <ab0d55fe-25e5-482b-811e-c475aa6065c3@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Initial analysis of the dangers provided by Keith Thompson in that thread.

There are many more instances of more complicated macros having unnecessary
trailing semicolons, but this pile seems to be all of the cases of simple
values suffering from the problem. (Thus things that are likely to be found
in one of the contexts above, more complicated ones aren't.)

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-21 14:10:00 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
1d07171c5e slub: disable interrupts in cmpxchg_double_slab when falling back to pagelock
Split cmpxchg_double_slab into two functions. One for the case where we know that
interrupts are disabled (and therefore the fallback does not need to disable
interrupts) and one for the other cases where fallback will also disable interrupts.

This fixes the issue that __slab_free called cmpxchg_double_slab in some scenarios
without disabling interrupts.

Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-18 15:17:02 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
bfa71457a0 SLUB: Fix missing <linux/stacktrace.h> include
This fixes the following build breakage commit d6543e3 ("slub: Enable backtrace
for create/delete points"):

  CC      mm/slub.o
mm/slub.c: In function ‘set_track’:
mm/slub.c:428: error: storage size of ‘trace’ isn’t known
mm/slub.c:435: error: implicit declaration of function ‘save_stack_trace’
mm/slub.c:428: warning: unused variable ‘trace’
make[1]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1
make: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-07 22:47:01 +03:00
Marcin Slusarz
c4089f98e9 slub: reduce overhead of slub_debug
slub checks for poison one byte by one, which is highly inefficient
and shows up frequently as a highest cpu-eater in perf top.

Joining reads gives nice speedup:

(Compiling some project with different options)
                                 make -j12    make clean
slub_debug disabled:             1m 27s       1.2 s
slub_debug enabled:              1m 46s       7.6 s
slub_debug enabled + this patch: 1m 33s       3.2 s

check_bytes still shows up high, but not always at the top.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-07 22:44:45 +03:00
Ben Greear
d18a90dd85 slub: Add method to verify memory is not freed
This is for tracking down suspect memory usage.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-07 22:17:08 +03:00
Ben Greear
d6543e3935 slub: Enable backtrace for create/delete points
This patch attempts to grab a backtrace for the creation
and deletion points of the slub object.  When a fault is
detected, we can then get a better idea of where the item
was deleted.

Example output from debugging some funky nfs/rpc behaviour:

=============================================================================
BUG kmalloc-64: Object is on free-list
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

INFO: Allocated in rpcb_getport_async+0x39c/0x5a5 [sunrpc] age=381 cpu=3 pid=3750
       __slab_alloc+0x348/0x3ba
       kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x67/0xe7
       rpcb_getport_async+0x39c/0x5a5 [sunrpc]
       call_bind+0x70/0x75 [sunrpc]
       __rpc_execute+0x78/0x24b [sunrpc]
       rpc_execute+0x3d/0x42 [sunrpc]
       rpc_run_task+0x79/0x81 [sunrpc]
       rpc_call_sync+0x3f/0x60 [sunrpc]
       rpc_ping+0x42/0x58 [sunrpc]
       rpc_create+0x4aa/0x527 [sunrpc]
       nfs_create_rpc_client+0xb1/0xf6 [nfs]
       nfs_init_client+0x3b/0x7d [nfs]
       nfs_get_client+0x453/0x5ab [nfs]
       nfs_create_server+0x10b/0x437 [nfs]
       nfs_fs_mount+0x4ca/0x708 [nfs]
       mount_fs+0x6b/0x152
INFO: Freed in rpcb_map_release+0x3f/0x44 [sunrpc] age=30 cpu=2 pid=29049
       __slab_free+0x57/0x150
       kfree+0x107/0x13a
       rpcb_map_release+0x3f/0x44 [sunrpc]
       rpc_release_calldata+0x12/0x14 [sunrpc]
       rpc_free_task+0x59/0x61 [sunrpc]
       rpc_final_put_task+0x82/0x8a [sunrpc]
       __rpc_execute+0x23c/0x24b [sunrpc]
       rpc_async_schedule+0x10/0x12 [sunrpc]
       process_one_work+0x230/0x41d
       worker_thread+0x133/0x217
       kthread+0x7d/0x85
       kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
INFO: Slab 0xffffea00029aa470 objects=20 used=9 fp=0xffff8800be7830d8 flags=0x20000000004081
INFO: Object 0xffff8800be7830d8 @offset=4312 fp=0xffff8800be7827a8

Bytes b4 0xffff8800be7830c8:  87 a8 96 00 01 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a .�......ZZZZZZZZ
 Object 0xffff8800be7830d8:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
 Object 0xffff8800be7830e8:  6b 6b 6b 6b 01 08 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkk..kkkkkkkkkk
 Object 0xffff8800be7830f8:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
 Object 0xffff8800be783108:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk�
 Redzone 0xffff8800be783118:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                         �������������
 Padding 0xffff8800be783258:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         ZZZZZZZZ
Pid: 29049, comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 3.0.0-rc4+ #8
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff811055c3>] print_trailer+0x131/0x13a
 [<ffffffff81105601>] object_err+0x35/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8110746f>] verify_mem_not_deleted+0x7a/0xb7
 [<ffffffffa02851b5>] rpcb_getport_done+0x23/0x126 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa027d0ba>] rpc_exit_task+0x3f/0x6d [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa027d4ab>] __rpc_execute+0x78/0x24b [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa027d6c0>] ? rpc_execute+0x42/0x42 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa027d6d0>] rpc_async_schedule+0x10/0x12 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffff810611b7>] process_one_work+0x230/0x41d
 [<ffffffff81061102>] ? process_one_work+0x17b/0x41d
 [<ffffffff81063613>] worker_thread+0x133/0x217
 [<ffffffff810634e0>] ? manage_workers+0x191/0x191
 [<ffffffff81066e10>] kthread+0x7d/0x85
 [<ffffffff81485924>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff8147eb18>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
 [<ffffffff81066d93>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x56/0x56
 [<ffffffff81485920>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-07 22:17:03 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
4eade540fc slub: Not necessary to check for empty slab on load_freelist
load_freelist is now only branched to only if there are objects available.
So no need to check the object variable for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:57 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
03e404af26 slub: fast release on full slab
Make deactivation occur implicitly while checking out the current freelist.

This avoids one cmpxchg operation on a slab that is now fully in use.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:57 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
e36a2652d7 slub: Add statistics for the case that the current slab does not match the node
Slub reloads the per cpu slab if the page does not satisfy the NUMA condition. Track
those reloads since doing so has a performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:56 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
fc59c05306 slub: Get rid of the another_slab label
We can avoid deactivate slab in special cases if we do the
deactivation of slabs in each code flow that leads to new_slab.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:56 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
80f08c191f slub: Avoid disabling interrupts in free slowpath
Disabling interrupts can be avoided now. However, list operation still require
disabling interrupts since allocations can occur from interrupt
contexts and there is no way to perform atomic list operations.

The acquition of the list_lock therefore has to disable interrupts as well.

Dropping interrupt handling significantly simplifies the slowpath.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:56 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
5c2e4bbbd6 slub: Disable interrupts in free_debug processing
We will be calling free_debug_processing with interrupts disabled
in some case when the later patches are applied. Some of the
functions called by free_debug_processing expect interrupts to be
off.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:55 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
881db7fb03 slub: Invert locking and avoid slab lock
Locking slabs is no longer necesary if the arch supports cmpxchg operations
and if no debuggin features are used on a slab. If the arch does not support
cmpxchg then we fallback to use the slab lock to do a cmpxchg like operation.

The patch also changes the lock order. Slab locks are subsumed to the node lock
now. With that approach slab_trylocking is no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:55 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
2cfb7455d2 slub: Rework allocator fastpaths
Rework the allocation paths so that updates of the page freelist, frozen state
and number of objects use cmpxchg_double_slab().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:54 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
61728d1efc slub: Pass kmem_cache struct to lock and freeze slab
We need more information about the slab for the cmpxchg implementation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:54 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
5cc6eee8a8 slub: explicit list_lock taking
The allocator fastpath rework does change the usage of the list_lock.
Remove the list_lock processing from the functions that hide them from the
critical sections and move them into those critical sections.

This in turn simplifies the support functions (no __ variant needed anymore)
and simplifies the lock handling on bootstrap.

Inline add_partial since it becomes pretty simple.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:54 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
b789ef518b slub: Add cmpxchg_double_slab()
Add a function that operates on the second doubleword in the page struct
and manipulates the object counters, the freelist and the frozen attribute.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:53 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
8cb0a5068f slub: Move page->frozen handling near where the page->freelist handling occurs
This is necessary because the frozen bit has to be handled in the same cmpxchg_double
with the freelist and the counters.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:53 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
50d5c41cd1 slub: Do not use frozen page flag but a bit in the page counters
Do not use a page flag for the frozen bit. It needs to be part
of the state that is handled with cmpxchg_double(). So use a bit
in the counter struct in the page struct for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:52 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7e0528dadc slub: Push irq disable into allocate_slab()
Do the irq handling in allocate_slab() instead of __slab_alloc().

__slab_alloc() is already cluttered and allocate_slab() is already
fiddling around with gfp flags.

v6->v7:
	Only increment ORDER_FALLBACK if we get a page during fallback

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-02 13:26:52 +03:00
Chris Metcalf
d4d84fef6d slub: always align cpu_slab to honor cmpxchg_double requirement
On an architecture without CMPXCHG_LOCAL but with DEBUG_VM enabled,
the VM_BUG_ON() in __pcpu_double_call_return_bool() will cause an early
panic during boot unless we always align cpu_slab properly.

In principle we could remove the alignment-testing VM_BUG_ON() for
architectures that don't have CMPXCHG_LOCAL, but leaving it in means
that new code will tend not to break x86 even if it is introduced
on another platform, and it's low cost to require alignment.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-06-03 19:33:49 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
49a78d085f slub: remove no-longer used 'unlock_out' label
Commit a71ae47a2c ("slub: Fix double bit unlock in debug mode")
removed the only goto to this label, resulting in

  mm/slub.c: In function '__slab_alloc':
  mm/slub.c:1834: warning: label 'unlock_out' defined but not used

fixed trivially by the removal of the label itself too.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 18:06:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a71ae47a2c slub: Fix double bit unlock in debug mode
Commit 442b06bcea ("slub: Remove node check in slab_free") added a
call to deactivate_slab() in the debug case in __slab_alloc(), which
unlocks the current slab used for allocation.  Going to the label
'unlock_out' then does it again.

Also, in the debug case we do not need all the other processing that the
'unlock_out' path does.  We always fall back to the slow path in the
debug case.  So the tid update is useless.

Similarly, ALLOC_SLOWPATH would just be incremented for all allocations.
Also a pretty useless thing.

So simply restore irq flags and return the object.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-and-bisected-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:38:24 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
bfb91fb650 Merge branch 'slab/next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2011-05-23 19:50:39 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
442b06bcea slub: Remove node check in slab_free
We can set the page pointing in the percpu structure to
NULL to have the same effect as setting c->node to NUMA_NO_NODE.

Gets rid of one check in slab_free() that was only used for
forcing the slab_free to the slowpath for debugging.

We still need to set c->node to NUMA_NO_NODE to force the
slab_alloc() fastpath to the slowpath in case of debugging.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-05-21 12:53:53 +03:00
David Rientjes
bd07d87fd4 slub: avoid label inside conditional
Jumping to a label inside a conditional is considered poor style,
especially considering the current organization of __slab_alloc().

This removes the 'load_from_page' label and just duplicates the three
lines of code that it uses:

	c->node = page_to_nid(page);
	c->page = page;
	goto load_freelist;

since it's probably not worth making this a separate helper function.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-05-17 22:19:00 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
1393d9a185 slub: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC work with new fastpath
Fastpath can do a speculative access to a page that CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC may have
marked as invalid to retrieve the pointer to the next free object.

Use probe_kernel_read in that case in order not to cause a page fault.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 38.x
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-05-17 22:18:55 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
6332aa9d25 slub: Avoid warning for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
Move the #ifdef so that get_map is only defined if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is defined.

Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-05-17 22:16:08 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
1759415e63 slub: Remove CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL ifdeffery
Remove the #ifdefs. This means that the irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_double() is used
everywhere.

There may be performance implications since:

A. We now have to manage a transaction ID for all arches

B. The interrupt holdoff for arches not supporting CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL is reduced
to a very short irqoff section.

There are no multiple irqoff/irqon sequences as a result of this change. Even in the fallback
case we only have to do one disable and enable like before.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-05-07 20:25:38 +03:00
Thomas Gleixner
30106b8ce2 slub: Fix the lockless code on 32-bit platforms with no 64-bit cmpxchg
The SLUB allocator use of the cmpxchg_double logic was wrong: it
actually needs the irq-safe one.

That happens automatically when we use the native unlocked 'cmpxchg8b'
instruction, but when compiling the kernel for older x86 CPUs that do
not support that instruction, we fall back to the generic emulation
code.

And if you don't specify that you want the irq-safe version, the generic
code ends up just open-coding the cmpxchg8b equivalent without any
protection against interrupts or preemption.  Which definitely doesn't
work for SLUB.

This was reported by Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.ru>, who saw
instability with his distro-kernel that was compiled to support pretty
much everything under the sun.  Most big Linux distributions tend to
compile for PPro and later, and would never have noticed this problem.

This also fixes the prototypes for the irqsafe cmpxchg_double functions
to use 'bool' like they should.

[ Btw, that whole "generic code defaults to no protection" design just
  sounds stupid - if the code needs no protection, there is no reason to
  use "cmpxchg_double" to begin with.  So we should probably just remove
  the unprotected version entirely as pointless.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>
Acked-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1105041539050.3005@ionos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-04 14:20:20 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
8dc16c6c04 slub: Move debug handlign in __slab_free
Its easier to read if its with the check for debugging flags.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-17 14:03:20 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
dc1fb7f436 slub: Move node determination out of hotpath
If the node does not change then there is no need to recalculate
the node from the page struct. So move the node determination
into the places where we acquire a new slab page.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-17 14:03:20 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
01ad8a7bc2 slub: Eliminate repeated use of c->page through a new page variable
__slab_alloc is full of "c->page" repeats. Lets just use one local variable
named "page" for this. Also avoids the need to a have another variable
called "new".

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-17 14:03:19 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
5f80b13ae4 slub: get_map() function to establish map of free objects in a slab
The bit map of free objects in a slab page is determined in various functions
if debugging is enabled.

Provide a common function for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-17 14:03:19 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
33de04ec4c slub: Use NUMA_NO_NODE in get_partial
A -1 was leftover during the conversion.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-17 14:03:19 +03:00
Li Zefan
607bf324ab slub: Fix a typo in config name
There's no config named SLAB_DEBUG, and it should be a typo
of SLUB_DEBUG.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-04-12 22:27:27 +03:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Christoph Lameter
b8c4c96ed4 SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it
It turns out that the cmpxchg16b emulation has to access vmalloced
percpu memory with interrupts disabled. If the memory has never
been touched before then the fault necessary to establish the
mapping will not to occur and the kernel will fail on boot.

Fix that by reusing the CONFIG_PREEMPT code that writes the
cpu number into a field on every cpu. Writing to the per cpu
area before causes the mapping to be established before we get
to a cmpxchg16b emulation.

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-24 21:53:07 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
f9b615de46 slub: Fix debugobjects with lockless fastpath
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810570a9>]  [<ffffffff810570a9>] get_next_timer_interrupt+0x119/0x260

That's a typical timer crash, but you were unable to debug it with
debugobjects because commit d3f661d6 broke those.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-24 21:26:46 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
4fdccdfbb4 slub: Add statistics for this_cmpxchg_double failures
Add some statistics for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-22 20:48:04 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
2fd66c517d slub: Add missing irq restore for the OOM path
OOM path is missing the irq restore in the CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-22 20:48:04 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
e8c500c2b6 Merge branch 'slub/lockless' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
2011-03-20 18:13:26 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
a24c5a0ea9 slub: Dont define useless label in the !CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL case
The redo label needs #ifdeffery. Fixes the following problem introduced by
commit 8a5ec0ba42 ("Lockless (and preemptless) fastpaths for slub"):

  mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_free':
  mm/slub.c:2124: warning: label 'redo' defined but not used

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-20 18:11:07 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
c914955675 Merge branch 'slab/rcu' into slab/next
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2011-03-11 18:10:45 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
da9a638c6f slub,rcu: don't assume the size of struct rcu_head
The size of struct rcu_head may be changed. When it becomes larger,
it will pollute the page array.

We reserve some some bytes for struct rcu_head when a slab
is allocated in this situation.

Changed from V1:
	use VM_BUG_ON instead BUG_ON

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-11 18:06:34 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
ab9a0f196f slub: automatically reserve bytes at the end of slab
There is no "struct" for slub's slab, it shares with struct page.
But struct page is very small, it is insufficient when we need
to add some metadata for slab.

So we add a field "reserved" to struct kmem_cache, when a slab
is allocated, kmem_cache->reserved bytes are automatically reserved
at the end of the slab for slab's metadata.

Changed from v1:
	Export the reserved field via sysfs

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-11 18:06:34 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
8a5ec0ba42 Lockless (and preemptless) fastpaths for slub
Use the this_cpu_cmpxchg_double functionality to implement a lockless
allocation algorithm on arches that support fast this_cpu_ops.

Each of the per cpu pointers is paired with a transaction id that ensures
that updates of the per cpu information can only occur in sequence on
a certain cpu.

A transaction id is a "long" integer that is comprised of an event number
and the cpu number. The event number is incremented for every change to the
per cpu state. This means that the cmpxchg instruction can verify for an
update that nothing interfered and that we are updating the percpu structure
for the processor where we picked up the information and that we are also
currently on that processor when we update the information.

This results in a significant decrease of the overhead in the fastpaths. It
also makes it easy to adopt the fast path for realtime kernels since this
is lockless and does not require the use of the current per cpu area
over the critical section. It is only important that the per cpu area is
current at the beginning of the critical section and at the end.

So there is no need even to disable preemption.

Test results show that the fastpath cycle count is reduced by up to ~ 40%
(alloc/free test goes from ~140 cycles down to ~80). The slowpath for kfree
adds a few cycles.

Sadly this does nothing for the slowpath which is where the main issues with
performance in slub are but the best case performance rises significantly.
(For that see the more complex slub patches that require cmpxchg_double)

Kmalloc: alloc/free test

Before:

10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 134 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 152 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 144 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 132 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 132 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 144 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 754 cycles

After:

10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 78 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 78 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 88 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 79 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 79 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 706 cycles

Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test

Before:

10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 211 cycles kfree -> 113 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 174 cycles kfree -> 115 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 235 cycles kfree -> 129 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 222 cycles kfree -> 120 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 343 cycles kfree -> 139 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 827 cycles kfree -> 147 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 1048 cycles kfree -> 272 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 2043 cycles kfree -> 528 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 4002 cycles kfree -> 571 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 7740 cycles kfree -> 628 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 8062 cycles kfree -> 850 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 8895 cycles kfree -> 1249 cycles

After:

10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 190 cycles kfree -> 129 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 123 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 126 cycles kfree -> 124 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 181 cycles kfree -> 128 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 310 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 809 cycles kfree -> 165 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 1005 cycles kfree -> 269 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 1999 cycles kfree -> 527 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 3967 cycles kfree -> 570 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 7658 cycles kfree -> 637 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 8111 cycles kfree -> 859 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 8791 cycles kfree -> 1173 cycles

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-11 17:42:49 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
d3f661d69a slub: Get rid of slab_free_hook_irq()
The following patch will make the fastpaths lockless and will no longer
require interrupts to be disabled. Calling the free hook with irq disabled
will no longer be possible.

Move the slab_free_hook_irq() logic into slab_free_hook. Only disable
interrupts if the features are selected that require callbacks with
interrupts off and reenable after calls have been made.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-11 17:42:49 +02:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
d71f606f68 slub: fix ksize() build error
mm/slub.c: In function 'ksize':
mm/slub.c:2728: error: implicit declaration of function 'slab_ksize'

slab_ksize() needs to go out of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG section.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-27 12:05:16 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
b3d41885d9 slub: fix kmemcheck calls to match ksize() hints
Recent use of ksize() in network stack (commit ca44ac38 : net: don't
reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the needed extra size
or is shared) triggers kmemcheck warnings, because ksize() can return
more space than kmemcheck is aware of.

Pekka Enberg noticed SLAB+kmemcheck is doing the right thing, while SLUB
+kmemcheck doesnt.

Bugzilla reference #27212

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-23 11:59:30 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
63310467a3 mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()
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>
2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
597fb188cb Merge branch 'slub/hotplug' into slab/urgent 2011-01-15 13:28:17 +02:00
Joe Perches
62c70bce8a mm: convert sprintf_symbol to %pS
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
04d94879c8 slub: Avoid use of slub_lock in show_slab_objects()
The purpose of the locking is to prevent removal and additions
of nodes when statistics are gathered for a slab cache. So we
need to avoid racing with memory hotplug functionality.

It is enough to take the memory hotplug locks there instead
of the slub_lock.

online_pages() currently does not acquire the memory_hotplug
lock. Another patch will be submitted by the memory hotplug
authors to take the memory hotplug lock and describe the
uses of the memory hotplug lock to protect against
adding and removal of nodes from non hotplug data structures.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.37
Reported-and-tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-11 17:09:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a1e8fad590 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
  tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
  slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
  slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm
  slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
  slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
2011-01-10 08:38:01 -08:00
Nick Piggin
ccd35fb9f4 kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
Tero Roponen
37d57443d5 slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
Commit f7cb193362 ("SLUB: Pass active
and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions")
missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings
during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash:

  BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  ...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35
  PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate

This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-04 09:53:49 +02:00
Tero Roponen
8165984acf slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
Commit f7cb193362 ("SLUB: Pass active
and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions")
missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings
during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash:

  BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  ...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35
  PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate

This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-04 09:40:16 +02:00
Pavel Emelyanov
68cee4f118 slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
There are two places, that do not release the slub_lock.

Respective bugs were introduced by sysfs changes ab4d5ed5 (slub: Enable
sysfs support for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) and 2bce6485 ( slub: Allow removal
of slab caches during boot).

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-11-14 16:53:11 +02:00
Pavel Emelyanov
98072e4d97 slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
There are two places, that do not release the slub_lock.

Respective bugs were introduced by sysfs changes ab4d5ed5 (slub: Enable
sysfs support for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) and 2bce6485 ( slub: Allow removal
of slab caches during boot).

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-11-06 09:04:33 +02:00
Richard Kennedy
4a92379bdf slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
Having the trace calls defined in the always inlined kmalloc functions
in include/linux/slub_def.h causes a lot of code duplication as the
trace functions get instantiated for each kamalloc call site. This can
simply be removed by pushing the trace calls down into the functions in
slub.c.

On my x86_64 built this patch shrinks the code size of the kernel by
approx 36K and also shrinks the code size of many modules -- too many to
list here ;)

size vmlinux (2.6.36) reports
       text        data     bss     dec     hex filename
    5410611	 743172	 828928	6982711	 6a8c37	vmlinux
    5373738	 744244	 828928	6946910	 6a005e	vmlinux + patch

The resulting kernel has had some testing & kmalloc trace still seems to
work.

This patch
- moves trace_kmalloc out of the inlined kmalloc() and pushes it down
into kmem_cache_alloc_trace() so this it only get instantiated once.

- rename kmem_cache_alloc_notrace()  to kmem_cache_alloc_trace() to
indicate that now is does have tracing. (maybe this would better being
called something like kmalloc_kmem_cache ?)

- adds a new function kmalloc_order() to handle allocation and tracing
of large allocations of page order.

- removes tracing from the inlined kmalloc_large() replacing them with a
call to kmalloc_order();

- move tracing out of inlined kmalloc_node() and pushing it down into
kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace

- rename kmem_cache_alloc_node_notrace() to
kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace()

- removes the include of trace/events/kmem.h from slub_def.h.

v2
- keep kmalloc_order_trace inline when !CONFIG_TRACE

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-11-06 09:04:33 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
92a5bbc11f SLUB: Fix memory hotplug with !NUMA
This patch fixes the following build breakage when memory hotplug is enabled on
UMA configurations:

  /home/test/linux-2.6/mm/slub.c: In function 'kmem_cache_init':
  /home/test/linux-2.6/mm/slub.c:3031:2: error: 'slab_memory_callback'
  undeclared (first use in this function)
  /home/test/linux-2.6/mm/slub.c:3031:2: note: each undeclared
  identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
  make[2]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** [mm] Error 2
  make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

Reported-by: Zimny Lech <napohybelskurwysynom2010@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 21:16:42 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
a5a84755c5 slub: Move functions to reduce #ifdefs
There is a lot of #ifdef/#endifs that can be avoided if functions would be in different
places. Move them around and reduce #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 16:54:37 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
ab4d5ed5ee slub: Enable sysfs support for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
Currently disabling CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG also disabled SYSFS support meaning
that the slabs cannot be tuned without DEBUG.

Make SYSFS support independent of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 16:54:36 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
15b7c51420 SLUB: Optimize slab_free() debug check
This patch optimizes slab_free() debug check to use "c->node != NUMA_NO_NODE"
instead of "c->node >= 0" because the former generates smaller code on x86-64:

  Before:

    4736:       48 39 70 08             cmp    %rsi,0x8(%rax)
    473a:       75 26                   jne    4762 <kfree+0xa2>
    473c:       44 8b 48 10             mov    0x10(%rax),%r9d
    4740:       45 85 c9                test   %r9d,%r9d
    4743:       78 1d                   js     4762 <kfree+0xa2>

  After:

    4736:       48 39 70 08             cmp    %rsi,0x8(%rax)
    473a:       75 23                   jne    475f <kfree+0x9f>
    473c:       83 78 10 ff             cmpl   $0xffffffffffffffff,0x10(%rax)
    4740:       74 1d                   je     475f <kfree+0x9f>

This patch also cleans up __slab_alloc() to use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of "-1"
for enabling debugging for a per-CPU cache.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 16:52:26 +03:00
Namhyung Kim
5d1f57e4d3 slub: Move NUMA-related functions under CONFIG_NUMA
Make kmalloc_cache_alloc_node_notrace(), kmalloc_large_node()
and __kmalloc_node_track_caller() to be compiled only when
CONFIG_NUMA is selected.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:47:53 +03:00
Namhyung Kim
3478973ded slub: Add lock release annotation
The unfreeze_slab() releases page's PG_locked bit but was missing
proper annotation. The deactivate_slab() needs to be marked also
since it calls unfreeze_slab() without grabbing the lock.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:47:53 +03:00
Namhyung Kim
a5dd5c117c slub: Fix signedness warnings
The bit-ops routines require its arg to be a pointer to unsigned long.
This leads sparse to complain about different signedness as follows:

 mm/slub.c:2425:49: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
 mm/slub.c:2425:49:    expected unsigned long volatile *addr
 mm/slub.c:2425:49:    got long *map

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:47:52 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
62e346a830 slub: extract common code to remove objects from partial list without locking
There are a couple of places where repeat the same statements when removing
a page from the partial list. Consolidate that into __remove_partial().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:44:10 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
f7cb193362 SLUB: Pass active and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions
Pass the actual values used for inactive and active redzoning to the
functions that check the objects. Avoids a lot of the ? : things to
lookup the values in the functions.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:44:10 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7340cc8414 slub: reduce differences between SMP and NUMA
Reduce the #ifdefs and simplify bootstrap by making SMP and NUMA as much alike
as possible. This means that there will be an additional indirection to get to
the kmem_cache_node field under SMP.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:44:10 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
ed59ecbf89 Revert "Slub: UP bandaid"
This reverts commit 5249d039500f05a5ab379286b1d23ab9b04d3f2c. It's not needed
after commit bbddff0545 ("percpu: use percpu
allocator on UP too").
2010-10-02 10:28:55 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
84c1cf6246 SLUB: Fix merged slab cache names
As explained by Linus "I'm Proud to be an American" Torvalds:

  Looking at the merging code, I actually think it's totally
  buggy. If you have something like this:

   - load module A: create slab cache A

   - load module B: create slab cache B that can merge with A

   - unload module A

   - "cat /proc/slabinfo": BOOM. Oops.

  exactly because the name is not handled correctly, and you'll have
  module B holding open a slab cache that has a name pointer that points
  to module A that no longer exists.

This patch fixes the problem by using kstrdup() to allocate dynamic memory for
->name of "struct kmem_cache" as suggested by Christoph Lameter.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c
2010-10-02 10:24:29 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
db210e70e5 Slub: UP bandaid
Since the percpu allocator does not provide early allocation in UP mode (only
in SMP configurations) use __get_free_page() to improvise a compound page
allocation that can be later freed via kfree().

Compound pages will be released when the cpu caches are resized.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:29 +03:00
David Rientjes
a016471a16 slub: fix SLUB_RESILIENCY_TEST for dynamic kmalloc caches
Now that the kmalloc_caches array is dynamically allocated at boot,
SLUB_RESILIENCY_TEST needs to be fixed to pass the correct type.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:29 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
8de66a0c02 slub: Fix up missing kmalloc_cache -> kmem_cache_node case for memoryhotplug
Memory hotplug allocates and frees per node structures. Use the correct name.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:28 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
7d550c56a2 slub: Add dummy functions for the !SLUB_DEBUG case
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> mm/slub.c:1732: error: implicit declaration of function 'slab_pre_alloc_hook'
> mm/slub.c:1751: error: implicit declaration of function 'slab_post_alloc_hook'
> mm/slub.c:1881: error: implicit declaration of function 'slab_free_hook'
> mm/slub.c:1886: error: implicit declaration of function 'slab_free_hook_irq'

Empty functions are missing if the runtime debuggability option is compiled
out.

Provide the fall back functions to empty hooks if SLUB_DEBUG is not set.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:28 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
c1d508365e slub: Move gfpflag masking out of the hotpath
Move the gfpflags masking into the hooks for checkers and into the slowpaths.
gfpflag masking requires access to a global variable and thus adds an
additional cacheline reference to the hotpaths.

If no hooks are active then the gfpflag masking will result in
code that the compiler can toss out.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:27 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
c016b0bdee slub: Extract hooks for memory checkers from hotpaths
Extract the code that memory checkers and other verification tools use from
the hotpaths. Makes it easier to add new ones and reduces the disturbances
of the hotpaths.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:27 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
51df114281 slub: Dynamically size kmalloc cache allocations
kmalloc caches are statically defined and may take up a lot of space just
because the sizes of the node array has to be dimensioned for the largest
node count supported.

This patch makes the size of the kmem_cache structure dynamic throughout by
creating a kmem_cache slab cache for the kmem_cache objects. The bootstrap
occurs by allocating the initial one or two kmem_cache objects from the
page allocator.

C2->C3
	- Fix various issues indicated by David
	- Make create kmalloc_cache return a kmem_cache * pointer.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:27 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
6c182dc0de slub: Remove static kmem_cache_cpu array for boot
The percpu allocator can now handle allocations during early boot.
So drop the static kmem_cache_cpu array.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:26 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
55136592fe slub: Remove dynamic dma slab allocation
Remove the dynamic dma slab allocation since this causes too many issues with
nested locks etc etc. The change avoids passing gfpflags into many functions.

V3->V4:
- Create dma caches in kmem_cache_init() instead of kmem_cache_init_late().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:26 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
1537066c69 slub: Force no inlining of debug functions
Compiler folds the debgging functions into the critical paths.
Avoid that by adding noinline to the functions that check for
problems.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:26 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
b57bdda58c Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
415cb47998 Merge branches 'slab/fixes', 'slob/fixes', 'slub/cleanups' and 'slub/fixes' into for-linus 2010-08-04 22:04:43 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
2bce648584 slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
Serialize kmem_cache_create and kmem_cache_destroy using the slub_lock. Only
possible after the use of the slub_lock during dynamic dma creation has been
removed.

Then make sure that the setup of the slab sysfs entries does not race
with kmem_cache_create and kmem_cache destroy.

If a slab cache is removed before we have setup sysfs then simply skip over
the sysfs handling.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-08-03 07:28:32 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
e438444de8 Revert "slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot"
This reverts commit f5b801ac38.
2010-08-03 07:28:21 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
bc6488e910 slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
The network developers have seen sporadic allocations resulting in objects
coming from unexpected NUMA nodes despite asking for objects from a
specific node.

This is due to get_partial() calling get_any_partial() if partial
slabs are exhausted for a node even if a node was specified and therefore
one would expect allocations only from the specified node.

get_any_partial() sporadically may return a slab from a foreign
node to gradually reduce the size of partial lists on remote nodes
and thereby reduce total memory use for a slab cache.

The behavior is controlled by the remote_defrag_ratio of each cache.

Strictly speaking this is permitted behavior since __GFP_THISNODE was
not specified for the allocation but it is certain surprising.

This patch makes sure that the remote defrag behavior only occurs
if no node was specified.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-29 12:59:00 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
af537b0a6c slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode.
The cacheline with the flags is reachable from the hot paths after the
percpu allocator changes went in. So there is no need anymore to put a
flag into each slab page. Get rid of the SlubDebug flag and use
the flags in kmem_cache instead.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:13:08 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
f5b801ac38 slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
If a slab cache is removed before we have setup sysfs then simply skip over
the sysfs handling.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:13:07 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
d7278bd7d1 slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON()
so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs
processing.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:13:07 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
f90ec39014 SLUB: Constants need UL
UL suffix is missing in some constants. Conform to how slab.h uses constants.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:13:07 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
2154a33638 slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
kmalloc_node() and friends can be passed a constant -1 to indicate
that no choice was made for the node from which the object needs to
come.

Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1.

CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:13:06 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
c726b61c6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-06-09 18:55:57 +02:00
Li Zefan
039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
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>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
3b03117c5c Merge branch 'slub/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slub/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  SLUB: Allow full duplication of kmalloc array for 390
  slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline
2010-05-30 12:46:17 -07:00
Miao Xie
c0ff7453bb cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems
Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later.  But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.

The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:

(mpol: mempolicy)
	task1			task1's mpol	task2
	alloc page		1
	  alloc on node0? NO	1
				1		change mems from 1 to 0
				1		rebind task1's mpol
				0-1		  set new bits
				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
	  alloc on node1? NO	0
	  ...
	can't alloc page
	  goto oom

This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
73367bd8ee slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline
This patch is meant to improve the performance of SLUB by moving the local
kmem_cache_node lock into it's own cacheline separate from kmem_cache.
This is accomplished by simply removing the local_node when NUMA is enabled.

On my system with 2 nodes I saw around a 5% performance increase w/
hackbench times dropping from 6.2 seconds to 5.9 seconds on average.  I
suspect the performance gain would increase as the number of nodes
increases, but I do not have the data to currently back that up.

Bugzilla-Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15713
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-24 21:11:29 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
bb4f6b0cd7 Merge branches 'slab/align', 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/fixes', 'slab/memhotadd' and 'slub/fixes' into slab-for-linus 2010-05-22 10:57:52 +03:00
Minchan Kim
6b65aaf302 slub: Use alloc_pages_exact_node() for page allocation
The alloc_slab_page() in SLUB uses alloc_pages() if node is '-1'.  This means
that node validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary and we can use
alloc_pages_exact_node() to avoid comparison and branch as commit
6484eb3e2a ("page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller
knows the node is valid") did for the page allocator.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-22 10:57:31 +03:00
Xiaotian Feng
d3e14aa336 slub: __kmalloc_node_track_caller should trace kmalloc_large_node case
commit 94b528d (kmemtrace: SLUB hooks for caller-tracking functions)
missed tracing kmalloc_large_node in __kmalloc_node_track_caller. We
should trace it same as __kmalloc_node.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-22 10:57:31 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
bbd7d57bfe slub: Potential stack overflow
I discovered that we can overflow stack if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y and use slabs
with many objects, since list_slab_objects() and process_slab() use
DECLARE_BITMAP(map, page->objects).

With 65535 bits, we use 8192 bytes of stack ...

Switch these allocations to dynamic allocations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-22 10:57:30 +03:00
David Woodhouse
4581ced379 mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slub_def.h>
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>
2010-05-19 22:03:13 +03:00
Zhang, Yanmin
111c7d8243 slub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()
Function init_kmem_cache_nodes is incorrect when checking upper limitation of
kmalloc_caches. The breakage was introduced by commit
91efd773c7 ("dma kmalloc handling fixes").

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-05 21:12:19 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
d3e06e2b15 slub: Fix kmem_ptr_validate() for non-kernel pointers
As suggested by Linus, fix up kmem_ptr_validate() to handle non-kernel pointers
more graciously. The patch changes kmem_ptr_validate() to use the newly
introduced kern_ptr_validate() helper to check that a pointer is a valid kernel
pointer before we attempt to convert it into a 'struct page'.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-09 10:09:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c32da02342 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Emese Revfy
9cd43611cc kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
1154fab73c SLUB: Fix per-cpu merge conflict
The slab tree adds a percpu variable usage case (commit
9dfc6e68bf "SLUB: Use this_cpu operations in
slub"), but the percpu tree removes the prefixing of percpu variables (commit
dd17c8f729 "percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix"),
thus causing the following compilation error:

    CC      mm/slub.o
  mm/slub.c: In function ‘alloc_kmem_cache_cpus’:
  mm/slub.c:2078: error: implicit declaration of function ‘per_cpu_var’
  mm/slub.c:2078: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
  make[1]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-03-04 12:09:43 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
e2b093f3e9 Merge branches 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/failslab', 'slab/fixes' and 'slub/percpu' into slab-for-linus 2010-03-04 12:07:50 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov
4c13dd3b48 failslab: add ability to filter slab caches
This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs.
In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by
default (all caches are faulty).

One may define specific set of slabs like this:
# mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab
# Turn on cache filter (off by default)
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter
# Turn on fault injection
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-02-26 19:19:39 +02:00
Adam Buchbinder
c9404c9c39 Fix misspelling of "should" and "shouldn't" in comments.
Some comments misspell "should" or "shouldn't"; this fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05 12:22:30 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
91efd773c7 dma kmalloc handling fixes
1. We need kmalloc_percpu for all of the now extended kmalloc caches
   array not just for each shift value.

2. init_kmem_cache_nodes() must assume node 0 locality for statically
   allocated dma kmem_cache structures even after boot is complete.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-01-22 18:33:38 +02:00
David Rientjes
7738dd9e8f slub: remove impossible condition
`s' cannot be NULL if kmalloc_caches is not NULL.

This conditional would trigger a NULL pointer on `s', anyway, since it is
immediately derefernced if true.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-01-22 18:33:36 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
84e554e686 SLUB: Make slub statistics use this_cpu_inc
this_cpu_inc() translates into a single instruction on x86 and does not
need any register. So use it in stat(). We also want to avoid the
calculation of the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu structure pointer. So pass
a kmem_cache pointer instead of a kmem_cache_cpu pointer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-20 10:39:34 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
ff12059ed1 SLUB: this_cpu: Remove slub kmem_cache fields
Remove the fields in struct kmem_cache_cpu that were used to cache data from
struct kmem_cache when they were in different cachelines. The cacheline that
holds the per cpu array pointer now also holds these values. We can cut down
the struct kmem_cache_cpu size to almost half.

The get_freepointer() and set_freepointer() functions that used to be only
intended for the slow path now are also useful for the hot path since access
to the size field does not require accessing an additional cacheline anymore.
This results in consistent use of functions for setting the freepointer of
objects throughout SLUB.

Also we initialize all possible kmem_cache_cpu structures when a slab is
created. No need to initialize them when a processor or node comes online.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-20 10:17:59 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
756dee7587 SLUB: Get rid of dynamic DMA kmalloc cache allocation
Dynamic DMA kmalloc cache allocation is troublesome since the
new percpu allocator does not support allocations in atomic contexts.
Reserve some statically allocated kmalloc_cpu structures instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-20 09:57:00 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
9dfc6e68bf SLUB: Use this_cpu operations in slub
Using per cpu allocations removes the needs for the per cpu arrays in the
kmem_cache struct. These could get quite big if we have to support systems
with thousands of cpus. The use of this_cpu_xx operations results in:

1. The size of kmem_cache for SMP configuration shrinks since we will only
   need 1 pointer instead of NR_CPUS. The same pointer can be used by all
   processors. Reduces cache footprint of the allocator.

2. We can dynamically size kmem_cache according to the actual nodes in the
   system meaning less memory overhead for configurations that may potentially
   support up to 1k NUMA nodes / 4k cpus.

3. We can remove the diddle widdle with allocating and releasing of
   kmem_cache_cpu structures when bringing up and shutting down cpus. The cpu
   alloc logic will do it all for us. Removes some portions of the cpu hotplug
   functionality.

4. Fastpath performance increases since per cpu pointer lookups and
   address calculations are avoided.

V7-V8
- Convert missed get_cpu_slab() under CONFIG_SLUB_STATS

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-20 09:29:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2205afa7d1 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf sched: Fix build failure on sparc
  perf bench: Add "all" pseudo subsystem and "all" pseudo suite
  perf tools: Introduce perf_session class
  perf symbols: Ditch dso->find_symbol
  perf symbols: Allow lookups by symbol name too
  perf symbols: Add missing "Variables" entry to map_type__name
  perf symbols: Add support for 'variable' symtabs
  perf symbols: Introduce ELF counterparts to symbol_type__is_a
  perf symbols: Introduce symbol_type__is_a
  perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for it
  perf tools: Allow building for ARM
  hw-breakpoints: Handle bad modify_user_hw_breakpoint off-case return value
  perf tools: Allow cross compiling
  tracing, slab: Fix no callsite ifndef CONFIG_KMEMTRACE
  tracing, slab: Define kmem_cache_alloc_notrace ifdef CONFIG_TRACING

Trivial conflict due to different fixes to modify_user_hw_breakpoint()
in include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
355d79c87a Merge branches 'slab/fixes', 'slab/kmemleak', 'slub/perf' and 'slub/stats' into for-linus 2009-12-12 10:12:19 +02:00
Li Zefan
0f24f1287a tracing, slab: Define kmem_cache_alloc_notrace ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
Define kmem_trace_alloc_{,node}_notrace() if CONFIG_TRACING is
enabled, otherwise perf-kmem will show wrong stats ifndef
CONFIG_KMEM_TRACE, because a kmalloc() memory allocation may
be traced by both trace_kmalloc() and trace_kmem_cache_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <4B21F89A.7000801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11 09:17:02 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
74e2134ff8 SLUB: Fix __GFP_ZERO unlikely() annotation
The unlikely() annotation in slab_alloc() covers too much of the expression.
It's actually very likely that the object is not NULL so use unlikely() only
for the __GFP_ZERO expression like SLAB does.

The patch reduces kernel text by 29 bytes on x86-64:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  24185	   8560	    176	  32921	   8099	mm/slub.o.orig
  24156	   8560	    176	  32892	   807c	mm/slub.o

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-29 09:01:59 +02:00
David Rientjes
78eb00cc57 slub: allow stats to be cleared
When collecting slub stats for particular workloads, it's necessary to
collect each statistic for all caches before the job is even started
because the counters are usually greater than zero just from boot and
initialization.

This allows a statistic to be cleared on each cpu by writing '0' to its
sysfs file.  This creates a baseline for statistics of interest before
the workload is started.

Setting a statistic to a particular value is not supported, so all values
written to these files other than '0' returns -EINVAL.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-10-15 21:34:12 +03:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
fe1ff49d0d mm: kmem_cache_create(): make it easier to catch NULL cache names
Right now, if you inadvertently pass NULL to kmem_cache_create() at boot
time, it crashes much later after boot somewhere deep inside sysfs which
makes it very non obvious to figure out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.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>
2009-09-22 07:17:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
fdaa45e95d slub: Fix build error in kmem_cache_open() with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
This build bug:

 mm/slub.c: In function 'kmem_cache_open':
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: 'disable_higher_order_debug' undeclared (first use in this function)
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: for each function it appears in.)

Triggers because there's no !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG definition for
disable_higher_order_debug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-15 22:32:10 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
aceda77360 Merge branches 'slab/cleanups' and 'slab/fixes' into for-linus 2009-09-14 20:19:06 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
8a3d271deb slub: fix slab_pad_check()
When SLAB_POISON is used and slab_pad_check() finds an overwrite of the
slab padding, we call restore_bytes() on the whole slab, not only
on the padding.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameer <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-14 07:57:55 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
d76b1590e0 slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
kmem_cache_destroy() should call rcu_barrier() *after* kmem_cache_close() and
*before* sysfs_slab_remove() or risk rcu_free_slab() being called after
kmem_cache is deleted (kfreed).

rmmod nf_conntrack can crash the machine because it has to kmem_cache_destroy()
a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU enabled cache.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 22:38:59 +03:00
Xiaotian Feng
5788d8ad6c slub: release kobject if sysfs_create_group failed in sysfs_slab_add
When CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled, sysfs_slab_add should unlink and put the
kobject if sysfs_create_group failed. Otherwise, sysfs_slab_add returns error
then free kmem_cache s, thus memory of s->kobj is leaked.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 21:11:41 +03:00
Aaro Koskinen
acdfcd04d9 SLUB: fix ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN cases 64 and 256
If the minalign is 64 bytes, then the 96 byte cache should not be created
because it would conflict with the 128 byte cache.

If the minalign is 256 bytes, patching the size_index table should not
result in a buffer overrun.

The calculation "(i - 1) / 8" used to access size_index[] is moved to
a separate function as suggested by Christoph Lameter.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-30 14:56:48 +03:00
Amerigo Wang
5086c389cb SLUB: Fix some coding style issues
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-19 21:44:13 +03:00
WANG Cong
cf5d11317e SLUB: Drop write permission to /proc/slabinfo
SLUB does not support writes to /proc/slabinfo so there should not be write
permission to do that either.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-18 19:11:40 +03:00
Tejun Heo
384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
Zhang, Yanmin
dcb0ce1bdf slub: change kmem_cache->align to record the real alignment
kmem_cache->align records the original align parameter value specified
by users. Function calculate_alignment might change it based on cache
line size. So change kmem_cache->align correspondingly.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-01 18:26:40 +03:00
David Rientjes
3de472138a slub: use size and objsize orders to disable debug flags
This patch moves the masking of debugging flags which increase a cache's
min order due to metadata when `slub_debug=O' is used from
kmem_cache_flags() to kmem_cache_open().

Instead of defining the maximum metadata size increase in a preprocessor
macro, this approach uses the cache's ->size and ->objsize members to
determine if the min order increased due to debugging options.  If so,
the flags specified in the more appropriately named DEBUG_METADATA_FLAGS
are masked off.

This approach was suggested by Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org>.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-28 10:53:09 +03:00
David Rientjes
fa5ec8a1f6 slub: add option to disable higher order debugging slabs
When debugging is enabled, slub requires that additional metadata be
stored in slabs for certain options: SLAB_RED_ZONE, SLAB_POISON, and
SLAB_STORE_USER.

Consequently, it may require that the minimum possible slab order needed
to allocate a single object be greater when using these options.  The
most notable example is for objects that are PAGE_SIZE bytes in size.

Higher minimum slab orders may cause page allocation failures when oom or
under heavy fragmentation.

This patch adds a new slub_debug option, which disables debugging by
default for caches that would have resulted in higher minimum orders:

	slub_debug=O

When this option is used on systems with 4K pages, kmalloc-4096, for
example, will not have debugging enabled by default even if
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is defined because it would have resulted in a
order-1 minimum slab order.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-10 09:52:55 +03:00
Catalin Marinas
e4f7c0b44a kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when
adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be
traced to avoid false positives.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08 14:25:14 +01:00
Tejun Heo
c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00
Paul E. McKenney
7ed9f7e5db fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
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>
2009-06-26 12:10:47 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
ba52270d18 SLUB: Don't pass __GFP_FAIL for the initial allocation
SLUB uses higher order allocations by default but falls back to small
orders under memory pressure. Make sure the GFP mask used in the initial
allocation doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24 12:20:14 -07:00
Tejun Heo
204fba4aa3 percpu: cleanup percpu array definitions
Currently, the following three different ways to define percpu arrays
are in use.

1. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type[array_len], array_name);
2. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type, array_name[array_len]);
3. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type, array_name)[array_len];

Unify to #1 which correctly separates the roles of the two parameters
and thus allows more flexibility in the way percpu variables are
defined.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-24 15:13:45 +09:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
dcce284a25 mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocator
The page allocator also needs the masking of gfp flags during boot,
so this moves it out of slab/slub and uses it with the page allocator
as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:12:57 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
5caf5c7dc2 Merge branch 'slub/earlyboot' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2009-06-17 08:30:54 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
e03ab9d415 Merge branches 'slab/documentation', 'slab/fixes', 'slob/cleanups' and 'slub/fixes' into for-linus 2009-06-17 08:30:15 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
62bc62a873 page allocator: use a pre-calculated value instead of num_online_nodes() in fast paths
num_online_nodes() is called in a number of places but most often by the
page allocator when deciding whether the zonelist needs to be filtered
based on cpusets or the zonelist cache.  This is actually a heavy function
and touches a number of cache lines.

This patch stores the number of online nodes at boot time and updates the
value when nodes get onlined and offlined.  The value is then used in a
number of important paths in place of num_online_nodes().

[rientjes@google.com: do not override definition of node_set_online() with macro]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
722f2a6c87 Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:50:49 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
b1eeab6768 kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory that
was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests are not
tracked.

Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[build fix for !CONFIG_KMEMCHECK]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
Nick Piggin
964cf35c88 SLUB: Fix early boot GFP_DMA allocations
Recent change to use slab allocations earlier exposed a bug where
SLUB can call schedule_work and try to call sysfs before it is
safe to do so.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-15 13:55:26 +03:00
Vegard Nossum
5a896d9e7c slub: add hooks for kmemcheck
Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for
atomicity.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-15 12:40:07 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
95f8598931 SLUB: Don't print out OOM warning for __GFP_NOFAIL
We must check for __GFP_NOFAIL like the page allocator does; otherwise we end
up with false positives. While at it, add the printk_ratelimit() check in SLUB
as well.

Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-13 23:37:38 +03:00
Alexander Beregalov
26c02cf05d SLUB: fix build when !SLUB_DEBUG
Fix this build error when CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set:
mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_out_of_memory':
mm/slub.c:1551: error: 'struct kmem_cache_node' has no member named 'nr_slabs'
mm/slub.c:1552: error: 'struct kmem_cache_node' has no member named 'total_objects'

[ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-13 23:37:37 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
7e85ee0c1d slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot
As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

  Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
  a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
  grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
  even then you'll be missing some.

  For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
  early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
  mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
  using that to do the test.

Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators
in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 18:53:33 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
512626a04e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
  kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
  kmemleak: Add modules support
  kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
  kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Add the base support

Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
	drivers/char/vt.c
	init/main.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
83b519e8b9 slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get
rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to
kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some
changes to allocator boostrap code.

Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps
before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar:

  We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code:

  [    0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000
  [    0.000000]      EDI 00000188  ESI 00000ac7  EBP c17eaf9c  ESP c17eaf8c
  [    0.000000]      EBX 000014e0  EDX 0000000e  ECX 01856067  EAX 00000001
  [    0.000000]      err 00000003  EIP c10135b1   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
  [    0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc
  [    0.000000]        00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0
  [    0.000000]        c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003
  [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203
  [    0.000000] Call Trace:
  [    0.000000]  [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16
  [    0.000000]  [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23
  [    0.000000]  [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64
  [    0.000000]  [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 19:15:56 +03:00
Catalin Marinas
06f22f13f3 kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the
slub allocator.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 17:03:30 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
781b2ba6eb SLUB: Out-of-memory diagnostics
As suggested by Mel Gorman, add out-of-memory diagnostics to the SLUB allocator
to make debugging OOM conditions easier. This patch helped hunt down a nasty
OOM issue that popped up every now that was caused by SLUB debugging code which
forced 4096 byte allocations to use order 1 pages even in the fallback case.

An example print out looks like this:

  <snip page allocator out-of-memory message>
  SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1 (gfp=20)
    cache: kmalloc-4096, object size: 4096, buffer size: 4168, default order: 3, min order: 1
    node 0: slabs: 95, objs: 665, free: 0

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 18:14:18 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
42ddc4cbba Merge branches 'topic/documentation', 'topic/slub/fixes' and 'topic/urgent' into for-linus 2009-05-06 10:27:43 +03:00
Nick Piggin
1eb5ac6466 mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state
SLUB 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
Cc: 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>
2009-05-06 10:23:02 +03:00
David Rientjes
818cf59097 slub: enforce MAX_ORDER
slub_max_order may not be equal to or greater than MAX_ORDER.

Additionally, if a single object cannot be placed in a slab of
slub_max_order, it still must allocate slabs below MAX_ORDER.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-04-23 09:58:22 +03:00
Zhaolei
02af61bb50 tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and 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>
2009-04-12 15:22:55 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
2121db74ba kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects
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>
2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
ca2b84cb3c kmemtrace: use tracepoints
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>
2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c4e1aa67ed Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
15a5b0a491 Merge branches 'topic/slob/cleanups', 'topic/slob/fixes', 'topic/slub/core', 'topic/slub/cleanups' and 'topic/slub/perf' into for-linus 2009-03-24 10:25:21 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
1a00df4a2c slub: use get_track()
Use get_track() in set_track()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-03-23 09:43:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
28b1bd1cbc Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-04 18:49:19 +01:00
David Rientjes
c0bdb232b2 slub: rename calculate_min_partial() to set_min_partial()
As suggested by Christoph Lameter, rename calculate_min_partial() to
set_min_partial() as the function doesn't really do any calculations.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-25 09:16:35 +02:00
David Rientjes
73d342b169 slub: add min_partial sysfs tunable
Now that a cache's min_partial has been moved to struct kmem_cache, it's
possible to easily tune it from userspace by adding a sysfs attribute.

It may not be desirable to keep a large number of partial slabs around
if a cache is used infrequently and memory, especially when constrained
by a cgroup, is scarce.  It's better to allow userspace to set the
minimum policy per cache instead of relying explicitly on
kmem_cache_shrink().

The memory savings from simply moving min_partial from struct
kmem_cache_node to struct kmem_cache is obviously not significant
(unless maybe you're from SGI or something), at the largest it's

	# allocated caches * (MAX_NUMNODES - 1) * sizeof(unsigned long)

The true savings occurs when userspace reduces the number of partial
slabs that would otherwise be wasted, especially on machines with a
large number of nodes (ia64 with CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT at 10 for default?).
As well as the kernel estimates ideal values for n->min_partial and
ensures it's within a sane range, userspace has no other input other
than writing to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/shrink.

There simply isn't any better heuristic to add when calculating the
partial values for a better estimate that works for all possible caches.
And since it's currently a static value, the user really has no way of
reclaiming that wasted space, which can be significant when constrained
by a cgroup (either cpusets or, later, memory controller slab limits)
without shrinking it entirely.

This also allows the user to specify that increased fragmentation and
more partial slabs are actually desired to avoid the cost of allocating
new slabs at runtime for specific caches.

There's also no reason why this should be a per-struct kmem_cache_node
value in the first place.  You could argue that a machine would have
such node size asymmetries that it should be specified on a per-node
basis, but we know nobody is doing that right now since it's a purely
static value at the moment and there's no convenient way to tune that
via slub's sysfs interface.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-23 12:05:46 +02:00
David Rientjes
3b89d7d881 slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache
Although it allows for better cacheline use, it is unnecessary to save a
copy of the cache's min_partial value in each kmem_cache_node.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-23 12:05:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
057685cf57 Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2009-02-20 12:15:30 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
fe1200b63d SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold,
introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert
mm/slub.c to use them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:28:36 +02:00
Zhang Yanmin
e8120ff1ff SLUB: Fix default slab order for big object sizes
The default order of kmalloc-8192 on 2*4 stoakley is an issue of
calculate_order.

slab_size       order           name
-------------------------------------------------
4096            3               sgpool-128
8192            2               kmalloc-8192
16384           3               kmalloc-16384

kmalloc-8192's default order is smaller than sgpool-128's.

On 4*4 tigerton machine, a similiar issue appears on another kmem_cache.

Function calculate_order uses 'min_objects /= 2;' to shrink. Plus size
calculation/checking in slab_order, sometimes above issue appear.

Below patch against 2.6.29-rc2 fixes it.

I checked the default orders of all kmem_cache and they don't become
smaller than before. So the patch wouldn't hurt performance.

Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:26:12 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
ffadd4d0fe SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold,
introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert
mm/slub.c to use them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:22:44 +02:00
Nick Piggin
cf40bd16fd lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS)
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>
2009-02-14 23:27:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1c511f740f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-13 10:25:18 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
b1aabecd55 mm: Export symbol ksize()
Commit 7b2cd92adc ("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>
2009-02-12 17:50:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dc573f9b20 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-03 06:25:38 +01:00
David Rientjes
3718909448 slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak
The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates
NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs.

When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may
have an address at the upper bound of this array.  If this happens, it
does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out
of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-01-28 10:43:42 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
6047a007d0 SLUB: Use ->objsize from struct kmem_cache_cpu in slab_free()
There's no reason to use ->objsize from struct kmem_cache in slab_free() for
the SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS case. All it does is generate extra cache pressure as we
try very hard not to touch struct kmem_cache in the fast-path.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-01-14 17:04:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
99cd707489 Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into tracing/urgent 2009-01-11 03:43:52 +01:00
Frederik Schwarzer
0211a9c850 trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written).
So it is:
"an hour" (spoken vowel)
but
"a uniform" (spoken 'j')

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-06 11:28:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3d7a96f5a4 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace2 2009-01-06 09:53:05 +01:00
Rusty Russell
174596a0b9 cpumask: convert mm/
Impact: Use new API

Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask.

We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
Rusty Russell
2ca1a61583 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
2008-12-31 23:05:57 +10:30
Ingo Molnar
818fa7f390 Merge branch 'tracing/kmemtrace' into tracing/kmemtrace2 2008-12-31 08:19:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5fdf7e5975 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2008-12-31 08:14:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
36994e58a4 tracing/kmemtrace: normalize the raw tracer event to the unified tracing API
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>
2008-12-30 09:36:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2a38b1c4f1 kmemtrace: move #include lines
Impact: avoid conflicts with kmemcheck

kmemcheck modifies the same area of slab.c and slub.c - move the
include lines up a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 06:56:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2ff9f9d962 Merge branch 'topic/kmemtrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace 2008-12-29 15:16:24 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
2e67624c22 kmemtrace: remove unnecessary casts
Now that we use _RET_IP_ there's no need to cast 'caller' to unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:14 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
94b528d056 kmemtrace: SLUB hooks for caller-tracking functions.
This patch adds kmemtrace hooks for __kmalloc_track_caller() and
__kmalloc_node_track_caller(). Currently, they set the call site pointer
to the value recieved as a parameter. (This could change if we implement
stack trace exporting in kmemtrace.)

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:12 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
5b882be4e0 kmemtrace: SLUB hooks.
This adds hooks for the SLUB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:07 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
35995a4d81 SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a
previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and
they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read
code.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:33:59 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
3c506efd7e Merge branch 'topic/failslab' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:47:05 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
fd37617e69 Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' into for-linus 2008-12-29 11:45:47 +02:00
David Rientjes
7b8f3b66d9 slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error
If a slab cache is mergeable and the sysfs alias cannot be added, the
target cache shall have its refcount decremented.  kmem_cache_create()
will return NULL, so if kmem_cache_destroy() is ever called on the target
cache, it will never be freed if the refcount has been leaked.

Likewise, if a slab cache is not mergeable and the sysfs link cannot be
added, the new cache shall be removed from the slab_caches list.
kmem_cache_create() will return NULL, so it will be impossible to call
kmem_cache_destroy() on it.

Both of these operations require slub_lock since refcount of all slab
caches and slab_caches are protected by the lock.

In the mergeable case, it would be better to restore objsize and offset
back to their original values, but this could race with another merge
since slub_lock was dropped.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:40:58 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
89124d706d slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()
Currently SLUB doesn't warn about __GFP_WAIT. Add it into slab_alloc().

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:40:51 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
773ff60e84 SLUB: failslab support
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
Rusty Russell
29c0177e6a cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs

Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by
cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected.

These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately
they're rarely used, so we just change them over.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
2008-12-13 21:20:25 +10:30
Hugh Dickins
9c24624727 KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixes
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked
to my 966c8c12dc sprint_symbol(): use
less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() -
kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was
beyond the end of page provided.

The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly
enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before
it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before.

Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they
need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer
where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies
them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Nick Andrew
9f6c708e5c slub: Fix incorrect use of loose
It should be 'lose', not 'loose'.

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-08 10:41:10 +02:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
dc19f9db38 memcg: memory hotplug fix for notifier callback
Fixes for memcg/memory hotplug.

While memory hotplug allocate/free memmap, page_cgroup doesn't free
page_cgroup at OFFLINE when page_cgroup is allocated via bootomem.
(Because freeing bootmem requires special care.)

Then, if page_cgroup is allocated by bootmem and memmap is freed/allocated
by memory hotplug, page_cgroup->page == page is no longer true.

But current MEM_ONLINE handler doesn't check it and update
page_cgroup->page if it's not necessary to allocate page_cgroup.  (This
was not found because memmap is not freed if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is y.)

And I noticed that MEM_ONLINE can be called against "part of section".
So, freeing page_cgroup at CANCEL_ONLINE will cause trouble.  (freeing
used page_cgroup) Don't rollback at CANCEL.

One more, current memory hotplug notifier is stopped by slub because it
sets NOTIFY_STOP_MASK to return vaule.  So, page_cgroup's callback never
be called.  (low priority than slub now.)

I think this slub's behavior is not intentional(BUG). and fixes it.

Another way to be considered about page_cgroup allocation:
  - free page_cgroup at OFFLINE even if it's from bootmem
    and remove specieal handler. But it requires more changes.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12041

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiruyoki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
David Rientjes
0094de92a4 slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void
The return value for early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() is unused, so it is
better defined as void.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:26 +02:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
e9beef1815 slub - fix get_object_page comment
Use 'slab page' instead of 'slab object'.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:25 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
ce71e27c6f SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a
previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and
they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read
code.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:25 +02:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
210b5c0613 SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:24 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7b3c3a50a3 proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
Lose dummy ->write hook in case of SLUB, it's possible now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23 15:20:06 +04:00
Salman Qazi
02b71b7012 slub: fixed uninitialized counter in struct kmem_cache_node
Initialized total objects atomic for the node in init_kmem_cache_node.  The
uninitialized value was ruining the stats in /proc/slabinfo.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-09-15 09:49:05 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
e2cb96b7ec slub: Disable NUMA remote node defragmentation by default
Switch remote node defragmentation off by default. The current settings can
cause excessive node local allocations with hackbench:

  SLAB:

    % cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:        7701760 kB
    MemFree:         5940096 kB
    Slab:             123840 kB

  SLUB:

    % cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:        7701376 kB
    MemFree:         4740928 kB
    Slab:            1591680 kB

[Note: this feature is not related to slab defragmentation.]

You can find the original discussion here:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/4/308

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-08-20 21:50:21 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
5595cffc82 SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIAL
This patch changes the static MIN_PARTIAL to a dynamic per-cache ->min_partial
value that is calculated from object size. The bigger the object size, the more
pages we keep on the partial list.

I tested SLAB, SLUB, and SLUB with this patch on Jens Axboe's 'netio' example
script of the fio benchmarking tool. The script stresses the networking
subsystem which should also give a fairly good beating of kmalloc() et al.

To run the test yourself, first clone the fio repository:

  git clone git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git

and then run the following command n times on your machine:

  time ./fio examples/netio

The results on my 2-way 64-bit x86 machine are as follows:

  [ the minimum, maximum, and average are captured from 50 individual runs ]

                 real time (seconds)
                 min      max      avg      sd
  SLAB           22.76    23.38    22.98    0.17
  SLUB           22.80    25.78    23.46    0.72
  SLUB (dynamic) 22.74    23.54    23.00    0.20

                 sys time (seconds)
                 min      max      avg      sd
  SLAB           6.90     8.28     7.70     0.28
  SLUB           7.42     16.95    8.89     2.28
  SLUB (dynamic) 7.17     8.64     7.73     0.29

                 user time (seconds)
                 min      max      avg      sd
  SLAB           36.89    38.11    37.50    0.29
  SLUB           30.85    37.99    37.06    1.67
  SLUB (dynamic) 36.75    38.07    37.59    0.32

As you can see from the above numbers, this patch brings SLUB to the same level
as SLAB for this particular workload fixing a ~2% regression. I'd expect this
change to help similar workloads that allocate a lot of objects that are close
to the size of a page.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-08-05 09:28:47 +03:00
Adrian Bunk
231367fd9b mm: unexport ksize
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>
2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
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>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
8a38082d21 slub: record page flag overlays explicitly
SLUB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and
PG_error.  This is hidden away in slub.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>
Tested-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>
2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
0ebd652b35 slub: dump more data on slab corruption
The limit of 128 bytes is too small when debugging slab corruption of the skb
cache, for example. So increase the limit to PAGE_SIZE to make debugging
corruptions easier.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-19 14:17:22 +03:00
Alexey Dobriyan
41ab8592ca SLUB: simplify re on_each_cpu()
on_each_cpu() expands to function call on UP, too.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-16 23:55:00 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
1a781a777b Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
88e4ccf294 slub: current is always valid
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-15 20:36:01 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
0937502af7 slub: Add check for kfree() of non slab objects.
We can detect kfree()s on non slab objects by checking for PageCompound().
Works in the same way as for ksize. This helped me catch an invalid
kfree().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-15 20:36:01 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
7daf705f36 Start using the new '%pS' infrastructure to print symbols
This simplifies the code significantly, and was the whole point of the
exercise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-14 12:12:53 -07:00
Dmitry Adamushko
bdb2192851 slub: Fix use-after-preempt of per-CPU data structure
Vegard Nossum reported a crash in kmem_cache_alloc():

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at da87d000
	IP: [<c01991c7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
	*pde = 28180163 *pte = 1a87d160
	Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
	Pid: 3850, comm: grep Not tainted (2.6.26-rc9-00059-gb190333 #5)
	EIP: 0060:[<c01991c7>] EFLAGS: 00210203 CPU: 0
	EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
	EAX: 00000000 EBX: da87c100 ECX: 1adad71a EDX: 6b6b6b6b
	ESI: 00200282 EDI: da87d000 EBP: f60bfe74 ESP: f60bfe54
	DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068

and analyzed it:

  "The register %ecx looks innocent but is very important here. The disassembly:

       mov    %edx,%ecx
       shr    $0x2,%ecx
       rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi) <-- the fault

   So %ecx has been loaded from %edx... which is 0x6b6b6b6b/POISON_FREE.
   (0x6b6b6b6b >> 2 == 0x1adadada.)

   %ecx is the counter for the memset, from here:

       memset(object, 0, c->objsize);

  i.e. %ecx was loaded from c->objsize, so "c" must have been freed.
  Where did "c" come from? Uh-oh...

       c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());

  This looks like it has very much to do with CPU hotplug/unplug. Is
  there a race between SLUB/hotplug since the CPU slab is used after it
  has been freed?"

Good analysis.

Yeah, it's possible that a caller of kmem_cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()
can be migrated on another CPU right after local_irq_restore() and
before memset().  The inital cpu can become offline in the mean time (or
a migration is a consequence of the CPU going offline) so its
'kmem_cache_cpu' structure gets freed ( slab_cpuup_callback).

At some point of time the caller continues on another CPU having an
obsolete pointer...

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10 15:18:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
cde5353599 Christoph has moved
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will
become invalid on June 27th.  Change my maintainer email address for the
slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email
address for the future).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
41d54d3bf8 slub: Do not use 192 byte sized cache if minimum alignment is 128 byte
The 192 byte cache is not necessary if we have a basic alignment of 128
byte. If it would be used then the 192 would be aligned to the next 128 byte
boundary which would result in another 256 byte cache. Two 256 kmalloc caches
cause sysfs to complain about a duplicate entry.

MIPS needs 128 byte aligned kmalloc caches and spits out warnings on boot without
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-03 19:01:55 +03:00
Jens Axboe
15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
76994412f8 slub: ksize() abuse checks
Add a WARN_ON for pages that don't have PageSlab nor PageCompound set to catch
the worst abusers of ksize() in the kernel.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-05-22 19:52:18 +03:00