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Joonsoo Kim
1fe00d50a9 slab: factor out initialization of array cache
Factor out initialization of array cache to use it in following patch.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:14 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
97654dfa20 slab: defer slab_destroy in free_block()
In free_block(), if freeing object makes new free slab and number of
free_objects exceeds free_limit, we start to destroy this new free slab
with holding the kmem_cache node lock.  Holding the lock is useless and,
generally, holding a lock as least as possible is good thing.  I never
measure performance effect of this, but we'd be better not to hold the
lock as much as possible.

Commented by Christoph:
  This is also good because kmem_cache_free is no longer called while
  holding the node lock. So we avoid one case of recursion.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:14 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
25c063fbd5 slab: move up code to get kmem_cache_node in free_block()
node isn't changed, so we don't need to retreive this structure
everytime we move the object.  Maybe compiler do this optimization, but
making it explicitly is better.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:14 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
8a9c61d438 slab: add unlikely macro to help compiler
This patchset does some cleanup and tries to remove lockdep annotation.

Patches 1~2 are just for really really minor improvement.
Patches 3~9 are for clean-up and removing lockdep annotation.

There are two cases that lockdep annotation is needed in SLAB.
1) holding two node locks
2) holding two array cache(alien cache) locks

I looked at the code and found that we can avoid these cases without any
negative effect.

1) occurs if freeing object makes new free slab and we decide to
   destroy it.  Although we don't need to hold the lock during destroying
   a slab, current code do that.  Destroying a slab without holding the
   lock would help the reduction of the lock contention.  To do it, I
   change the implementation that new free slab is destroyed after
   releasing the lock.

2) occurs on similar situation.  When we free object from non-local
   node, we put this object to alien cache with holding the alien cache
   lock.  If alien cache is full, we try to flush alien cache to proper
   node cache, and, in this time, new free slab could be made.  Destroying
   it would be started and we will free metadata object which comes from
   another node.  In this case, we need another node's alien cache lock to
   free object.  This forces us to hold two array cache locks and then we
   need lockdep annotation although they are always different locks and
   deadlock cannot be possible.  To prevent this situation, I use same way
   as 1).

In this way, we can avoid 1) and 2) cases, and then, can remove lockdep
annotation. As short stat noted, this makes SLAB code much simpler.

This patch (of 9):

slab_should_failslab() is called on every allocation, so to optimize it
is reasonable.  We normally don't allocate from kmem_cache.  It is just
used when new kmem_cache is created, so it's very rare case.  Therefore,
add unlikely macro to help compiler optimization.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2014-08-06 18:01:14 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
18bf854117 slab: use get_node() and kmem_cache_node() functions
Use the two functions to simplify the code avoiding numerous explicit
checks coded checking for a certain node to be online.

Get rid of various repeated calculations of kmem_cache_node structures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:13 -07:00
Fabian Frederick
1536cb3933 mm/slab.c: add __init to init_lock_keys
init_lock_keys is only called by __init kmem_cache_init_late

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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>
2014-08-06 18:01:13 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
0378730142 slab: fix oops when reading /proc/slab_allocators
Commit b1cb0982bd ("change the management method of free objects of
the slab") introduced a bug on slab leak detector
('/proc/slab_allocators').  This detector works like as following
decription.

 1. traverse all objects on all the slabs.
 2. determine whether it is active or not.
 3. if active, print who allocate this object.

but that commit changed the way how to manage free objects, so the logic
determining whether it is active or not is also changed.  In before, we
regard object in cpu caches as inactive one, but, with this commit, we
mistakenly regard object in cpu caches as active one.

This intoduces kernel oops if DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled.  If
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled, kernel_map_pages() is used to detect who
corrupt free memory in the slab.  It unmaps page table mapping if object
is free and map it if object is active.  When slab leak detector check
object in cpu caches, it mistakenly think this object active so try to
access object memory to retrieve caller of allocation.  At this point,
page table mapping to this object doesn't exist, so oops occurs.

Following is oops message reported from Dave.

It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
(Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)

  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in:
  [snip...]
  CPU: 1 PID: 9386 Comm: trinity-c33 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc5+ #131
  task: ffff8801aa46e890 ti: ffff880076924000 task.ti: ffff880076924000
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>]  [<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
  RSP: 0018:ffff880076925de0  EFLAGS: 00010002
  RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000005ce85ce7
  RDX: ffffea00079be100 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff880107458000
  RBP: ffff880076925e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff8801e6f84000
  R13: ffffea00079be100 R14: ffff880107458000 R15: ffff88022bb8d2c0
  FS:  00007fb769e45740(0000) GS:ffff88024d040000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8 CR3: 00000000a22db000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  DR0: 0000000002695000 DR1: 0000000002695000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000070602
  Call Trace:
    leaks_show+0xce/0x240
    seq_read+0x28e/0x490
    proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
    vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
    SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
    tracesys+0xd4/0xd9
  Code: f5 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 63 c8 44 3b 0c 8a 0f 84 e3 00 00 00 83 c0 01 44 39 c0 72 eb 41 f6 47 1a 01 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 89 f0 <4d> 8b 4c 04 f8 4d 85 c9 0f 84 88 00 00 00 49 8b 7e 08 4d 8d 46
  RIP   handle_slab+0x8a/0x180

To fix the problem, I introduce an object status buffer on each slab.
With this, we can track object status precisely, so slab leak detector
would not access active object and no kernel oops would occur.  Memory
overhead caused by this fix is only imposed to CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
which is mainly used for debugging, so memory overhead isn't big
problem.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-23 16:47:44 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
c67a8a685a memcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab
Currently we have two pairs of kmemcg-related functions that are called on
slab alloc/free.  The first is memcg_{bind,release}_pages that count the
total number of pages allocated on a kmem cache.  The second is
memcg_{un}charge_slab that {un}charge slab pages to kmemcg resource
counter.  Let's just merge them to keep the code clean.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.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>
2014-06-04 16:54:01 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
03afc0e25f slab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}
When we create a sl[au]b cache, we allocate kmem_cache_node structures
for each online NUMA node.  To handle nodes taken online/offline, we
register memory hotplug notifier and allocate/free kmem_cache_node
corresponding to the node that changes its state for each kmem cache.

To synchronize between the two paths we hold the slab_mutex during both
the cache creationg/destruction path and while tuning per-node parts of
kmem caches in memory hotplug handler, but that's not quite right,
because it does not guarantee that a newly created cache will have all
kmem_cache_nodes initialized in case it races with memory hotplug.  For
instance, in case of slub:

    CPU0                            CPU1
    ----                            ----
    kmem_cache_create:              online_pages:
     __kmem_cache_create:            slab_memory_callback:
                                      slab_mem_going_online_callback:
                                       lock slab_mutex
                                       for each slab_caches list entry
                                           allocate kmem_cache node
                                       unlock slab_mutex
      lock slab_mutex
      init_kmem_cache_nodes:
       for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)
           allocate kmem_cache node
      add kmem_cache to slab_caches list
      unlock slab_mutex
                                    online_pages (continued):
                                     node_states_set_node

As a result we'll get a kmem cache with not all kmem_cache_nodes
allocated.

To avoid issues like that we should hold get/put_online_mems() during
the whole kmem cache creation/destruction/shrink paths, just like we
deal with cpu hotplug.  This patch does the trick.

Note, that after it's applied, there is no need in taking the slab_mutex
for kmem_cache_shrink any more, so it is removed from there.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
5dfb417509 sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly
We have only a few places where we actually want to charge kmem so
instead of intruding into the general page allocation path with
__GFP_KMEMCG it's better to explictly charge kmem there.  All kmem
charges will be easier to follow that way.

This is a step towards removing __GFP_KMEMCG.  It removes __GFP_KMEMCG
from memcg caches' allocflags.  Instead it makes slab allocation path
call memcg_charge_kmem directly getting memcg to charge from the cache's
memcg params.

This also eliminates any possibility of misaccounting an allocation
going from one memcg's cache to another memcg, because now we always
charge slabs against the memcg the cache belongs to.  That's why this
patch removes the big comment to memcg_kmem_get_cache.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
David Rientjes
9a02d69993 mm, slab: suppress out of memory warning unless debug is enabled
When the slab or slub allocators cannot allocate additional slab pages,
they emit diagnostic information to the kernel log such as current
number of slabs, number of objects, active objects, etc.  This is always
coupled with a page allocation failure warning since it is controlled by
!__GFP_NOWARN.

Suppress this out of memory warning if the allocator is configured
without debug supported.  The page allocation failure warning will
indicate it is a failed slab allocation, the order, and the gfp mask, so
this is only useful to diagnose allocator issues.

Since CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is already enabled by default for the slub
allocator, there is no functional change with this patch.  If debug is
disabled, however, the warnings are now suppressed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
David Miller
30321c7b65 slab: Fix off by one in object max number tests.
If freelist_idx_t is a byte, SLAB_OBJ_MAX_NUM should be 255 not 256, and
likewise if freelist_idx_t is a short, then it should be 65535 not
65536.

This was leading to all kinds of random crashes on sparc64 where
PAGE_SIZE is 8192.  One problem shown was that if spinlock debugging was
enabled, we'd get deadlocks in copy_pte_range() or do_wp_page() with the
same cpu already holding a lock it shouldn't hold, or the lock belonging
to a completely unrelated process.

Fixes: a41adfaa23 ("slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-05 20:38:49 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
7cc68973c3 slab: fix the type of the index on freelist index accessor
Commit a41adfaa23 ("slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist
of a slab") changes the size of freelist index and also changes
prototype of accessor function to freelist index.  And there was a
mistake.

The mistake is that although it changes the size of freelist index
correctly, it changes the size of the index of freelist index
incorrectly.  With patch, freelist index can be 1 byte or 2 bytes, that
means that num of object on on a slab can be more than 255.  So we need
more than 1 byte for the index to find the index of free object on
freelist.  But, above patch makes this index type 1 byte, so slab which
have more than 255 objects cannot work properly and in consequence of
it, the system cannot boot.

This issue was reported by Steven King on m68knommu which would use
2 bytes freelist index:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/16/433

To fix is easy.  To change the type of the index of freelist index on
accessor functions is enough to fix this bug.  Although 2 bytes is
enough, I use 4 bytes since it have no bad effect and make things more
easier.  This fix was suggested and tested by Steven in his original
report.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-and-acked-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-05 20:38:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bf3a340738 Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The biggest change is byte-sized freelist indices which reduces slab
  freelist memory usage:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/64"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru
  mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming
  slab: fix wrongly used macro
  slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL
  slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient
  slab: make more slab management structure off the slab
  slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab
  slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab
  slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object
  slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
2014-04-13 13:28:13 -07:00
Dave Hansen
34bf6ef94a mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru
'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.  Conveniently,
they are unioned together.  This means that code can use them
interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like with this nugget from
slab.c:

>	list_del(&page->lru);
>	if (page->active == cachep->num)
>		list_add(&page->list, &n->slabs_full);

This patch makes the slab and slub code use page->lru universally instead
of mixing ->list and ->lru.

So, the new rule is: page->lru is what the you use if you want to keep
your page on a list.  Don't like the fact that it's not called ->list?
Too bad.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
David Rientjes
f0432d1596 mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag
PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users.
There's no significant performance degradation to checking
current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the
allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely().

Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with
64GB of memory and without a mempolicy:

	threads		before		after
	16		1249409		1244487
	32		1281786		1246783
	48		1239175		1239138
	64		1244642		1241841
	80		1244346		1248918
	96		1266436		1254316
	112		1307398		1312135
	128		1327607		1326502

Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever
possible and make them available.  We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom
reserves.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
David Rientjes
2a389610a7 mm, mempolicy: rename slab_node for clarity
slab_node() is actually a mempolicy function, so rename it to
mempolicy_slab_node() to make it clearer that it used for processes with
mempolicies.

At the same time, cleanup its code by saving numa_mem_id() in a local
variable (since we require a node with memory, not just any node) and
remove an obsolete comment that assumes the mempolicy is actually passed
into the function.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
Mel Gorman
d26914d117 mm: optimize put_mems_allowed() usage
Since put_mems_allowed() is strictly optional, its a seqcount retry, we
don't need to evaluate the function if the allocation was in fact
successful, saving a smp_rmb some loads and comparisons on some relative
fast-paths.

Since the naming, get/put_mems_allowed() does suggest a mandatory
pairing, rename the interface, as suggested by Mel, to resemble the
seqcount interface.

This gives us: read_mems_allowed_begin() and read_mems_allowed_retry(),
where it is important to note that the return value of the latter call
is inverted from its previous incarnation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:58 -07:00
Jianyu Zhan
5f0985bb11 mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming
As time goes, the code changes a lot, and this leads to that
some old-days comments scatter around , which instead of faciliating
understanding, but make more confusion. So this patch cleans up them.

Also, this patch unifies some variables naming.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-04-01 13:49:25 +03:00
Joe Perches
5087c82299 slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient
Use the likely mechanism already around valid
pointer tests to better choose when to memset
to 0 allocations with __GFP_ZERO

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:19:02 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
8fc9cf420b slab: make more slab management structure off the slab
Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish,
so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space
if the object of the slab is large.

Consider a 128 byte sized slab. If on-slab is used, 31 objects can be
in the slab. The size of the freelist for this case would be 31 bytes
so that 97 bytes, that is, more than 75% of object size, are wasted.

In a 64 byte sized slab case, no space is wasted if we use on-slab.
So set off-slab determining constraint to 128 bytes.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:13:25 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
a41adfaa23 slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab
Currently, the freelist of a slab consist of unsigned int sized indexes.
Since most of slabs have less number of objects than 256, large sized
indexes is needless. For example, consider the minimum kmalloc slab. It's
object size is 32 byte and it would consist of one page, so 256 indexes
through byte sized index are enough to contain all possible indexes.

There can be some slabs whose object size is 8 byte. We cannot handle
this case with byte sized index, so we need to restrict minimum
object size. Since these slabs are not major, wasted memory from these
slabs would be negligible.

Some architectures' page size isn't 4096 bytes and rather larger than
4096 bytes (One example is 64KB page size on PPC or IA64) so that
byte sized index doesn't fit to them. In this case, we will use
two bytes sized index.

Below is some number for this patch.

* Before *
kmalloc-512          525    640    512    8    1 : tunables   54   27    0 : slabdata     80     80      0
kmalloc-256          210    210    256   15    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     14     14      0
kmalloc-192         1016   1040    192   20    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     52     52      0
kmalloc-96           560    620    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     20     20      0
kmalloc-64          2148   2280     64   60    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     38     38      0
kmalloc-128          647    682    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     22     22      0
kmalloc-32         11360  11413     32  113    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata    101    101      0
kmem_cache           197    200    192   20    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     10     10      0

* After *
kmalloc-512          521    648    512    8    1 : tunables   54   27    0 : slabdata     81     81      0
kmalloc-256          208    208    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     13     13      0
kmalloc-192         1029   1029    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     49     49      0
kmalloc-96           529    589    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     19     19      0
kmalloc-64          2142   2142     64   63    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     34     34      0
kmalloc-128          660    682    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     22     22      0
kmalloc-32         11716  11780     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     95     95      0
kmem_cache           197    210    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     10     10      0

kmem_caches consisting of objects less than or equal to 256 byte have
one or more objects than before. In the case of kmalloc-32, we have 11 more
objects, so 352 bytes (11 * 32) are saved and this is roughly 9% saving of
memory. Of couse, this percentage decreases as the number of objects
in a slab decreases.

Here are the performance results on my 4 cpus machine.

* Before *

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10 runs):

       229,945,138 cache-misses                                                  ( +-  0.23% )

      11.627897174 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.14% )

* After *

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10 runs):

       218,640,472 cache-misses                                                  ( +-  0.42% )

      11.504999837 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.21% )

cache-misses are reduced by this patchset, roughly 5%.
And elapsed times are improved by 1%.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:12:38 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
f315e3fa1c slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab
To prepare to implement byte sized index for managing the freelist
of a slab, we should restrict the number of objects in a slab to be less
or equal to 256, since byte only represent 256 different values.
Setting the size of object to value equal or more than newly introduced
SLAB_OBJ_MIN_SIZE ensures that the number of objects in a slab is less or
equal to 256 for a slab with 1 page.

If page size is rather larger than 4096, above assumption would be wrong.
In this case, we would fall back on 2 bytes sized index.

If minimum size of kmalloc is less than 16, we use it as minimum object
size and give up this optimization.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:12:06 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
e5c58dfdcb slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object
In the following patches, to get/set free objects from the freelist
is changed so that simple casting doesn't work for it. Therefore,
introduce helper functions.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:10:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
9cef2e2b65 slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
This logic is not simple to understand so that making separate function
helping readability. Additionally, we can use this change in the
following patch which implement for freelist to have another sized index
in according to nr objects.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-08 12:10:32 +02:00
Masanari Iida
cb8ee1a3d4 mm: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by slab.c
This patch fixed following errors while make htmldocs
Warning(/mm/slab.c:1956): No description found for parameter 'page'
Warning(/mm/slab.c:1956): Excess function parameter 'slabp' description in 'slab_destroy'

Incorrect function parameter "slabp" was set instead of "page"

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-01-31 13:52:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
24f971abbd Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for
  slab internals similar to mm/slub.c.  This reduces memory usage and
  improves performance:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155

  Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits)
  mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c
  mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h
  slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
  slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
  slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
  slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled
  slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
  slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
  slab: use struct page for slab management
  slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
  slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
  slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
  slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
  slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
  slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
  slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
  slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
  slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
  slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
  slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
  ...
2013-11-22 08:10:34 -08:00
Qiang Huang
2ade4de871 memcg, kmem: rename cache_from_memcg to cache_from_memcg_idx
We can't see the relationship with memcg from the parameters,
so the name with memcg_idx would be more reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:10 +09:00
Joonsoo Kim
7e00735520 slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
There is no 'strcut freelist', but codes use pointer to 'struct freelist'.
Although compiler doesn't complain anything about this wrong usage and
codes work fine, but fixing it is better.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-30 14:09:12 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
0172f779e4 slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
After using struct page as slab management, we should not call
kmemleak_scan_area(), since struct page isn't the tracking object of
kmemleak. Without this patch and if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is enabled,
so many kmemleak warnings are printed.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-30 14:08:52 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
e7444d9b7d slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
Now, bufctl is not proper name to this array.
So change it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
7ecccf9d1e slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
Now, virt_to_page(page->s_mem) is same as the page,
because slab use this structure for management.
So remove useless statement.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
8456a648cf slab: use struct page for slab management
Now, there are a few field in struct slab, so we can overload these
over struct page. This will save some memory and reduce cache footprint.

After this change, slabp_cache and slab_size no longer related to
a struct slab, so rename them as freelist_cache and freelist_size.

These changes are just mechanical ones and there is no functional change.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
106a74e13b slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
Now, free in struct slab is same meaning as inuse.
So, remove both and replace them with active.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
45eed508de slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
It's useless now, so remove it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
16025177e1 slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
Now, we changed the management method of free objects of the slab and
there is no need to use special value, BUFCTL_END, BUFCTL_FREE and
BUFCTL_ACTIVE. So remove them.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
b1cb0982bd slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
Current free objects management method of the slab is weird, because
it touch random position of the array of kmem_bufctl_t when we try to
get free object. See following example.

struct slab's free = 6
kmem_bufctl_t array: 1 END 5 7 0 4 3 2

To get free objects, we access this array with following pattern.
6 -> 3 -> 7 -> 2 -> 5 -> 4 -> 0 -> 1 -> END

If we have many objects, this array would be larger and be not in the same
cache line. It is not good for performance.

We can do same thing through more easy way, like as the stack.
Only thing we have to do is to maintain stack top to free object. I use
free field of struct slab for this purpose. After that, if we need to get
an object, we can get it at stack top and manipulate top pointer.
That's all. This method already used in array_cache management.
Following is an access pattern when we use this method.

struct slab's free = 0
kmem_bufctl_t array: 6 3 7 2 5 4 0 1

To get free objects, we access this array with following pattern.
0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7

This may help cache line footprint if slab has many objects, and,
in addition, this makes code much much simpler.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:33 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
a57a49887e slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
If we use 'struct page' of first page as 'struct slab', there is no
advantage not to use __GFP_COMP. So use __GFP_COMP flag for all the cases.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:33 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
56f295ef0d slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
This is trivial change, just use well-defined macro.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:32 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
68126702b4 slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
With build-time size checking, we can overload the RCU head over the LRU
of struct page to free pages of a slab in rcu context. This really help to
implement to overload the struct slab over the struct page and this
eventually reduce memory usage and cache footprint of the SLAB.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:31 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
07d417a1c6 slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
We can get cachep using page in struct slab_rcu, so remove it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:29 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
1ea991b00c slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
We can get nodeid using address translation, so this field is not useful.
Therefore, remove it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:27 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
ac2b54edbc slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
Now there is no user colouroff, so remove it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:26 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
0c3aa83e00 slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
It is more understandable that kmem_getpages() return struct page.
And, with this, we can reduce one translation from virt addr to page and
makes better code than before. Below is a change of this patch.

* Before
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  22123	  23434	      4	  45561	   b1f9	mm/slab.o

* After
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  22074	  23434	      4	  45512	   b1c8	mm/slab.o

And this help following patch to remove struct slab's colouroff.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:23 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
73293c2f90 slab: correct pfmemalloc check
We checked pfmemalloc by slab unit, not page unit. You can see this
in is_slab_pfmemalloc(). So other pages don't need to be set/cleared
pfmemalloc.

And, therefore we should check pfmemalloc in page flag of first page,
but current implementation don't do that. virt_to_head_page(obj) just
return 'struct page' of that object, not one of first page, since the SLAB
don't use __GFP_COMP when CONFIG_MMU. To get 'struct page' of first page,
we first get a slab and try to get it via virt_to_head_page(slab->s_mem).

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:19 +03:00
Paul Gortmaker
0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
54be820019 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg:
 "Highlights:

  - Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to
    init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries
    (Christoph Lameter)

  - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim)

  - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li)

  - SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)"

I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end
that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner
fix in between myself.

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
  slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check
  mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
  slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
  slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable
  slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation
  slab: fix init_lock_keys
  slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible
  slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0
  mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo
  mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials
  mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab
  mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
  mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
  slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h
  mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
Wanpeng Li
276a2439ce mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names instead of exporting
"s_next" and "s_stop".

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-08 11:02:17 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
0f8f8094d2 slab: fix init_lock_keys
Some architectures (e.g. powerpc built with CONFIG_PPC_256K_PAGES=y
CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=11) get PAGE_SHIFT + MAX_ORDER > 26.

In 3.10 kernels, CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y with PAGE_SHIFT + MAX_ORDER > 26 makes
init_lock_keys() dereference beyond kmalloc_caches[26].
This leads to an unbootable system (kernel panic at initializing SLAB)
if one of kmalloc_caches[26...PAGE_SHIFT+MAX_ORDER-1] is not NULL.

Fix this by making sure that init_lock_keys() does not dereference beyond
kmalloc_caches[26] arrays.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-Love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.10.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:58:31 +03:00
Wanpeng Li
e25839f679 mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
This patch shares s_next and s_stop between slab and slub.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:37:47 +03:00
Wanpeng Li
0fa8103be4 mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
The drain_freelist is called to drain slabs_free lists for cache reap,
cache shrink, memory hotplug callback etc. The tofree parameter should
be the number of slab to free instead of the number of slab objects to
free.

This patch fix the callers that pass # of objects. Make sure they pass #
of slabs.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:37:46 +03:00
Zhouping Liu
d0d04b78f4 mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
After several fixing about kmem_cache_alloc_node(), its comment
was splitted. This patch moved it on top of kmem_cache_alloc_node()
definition.

Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-06-08 14:30:42 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
0f47c9423c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The bulk of the changes are more slab unification from Christoph.

  There's also few fixes from Aaron, Glauber, and Joonsoo thrown into
  the mix."

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (24 commits)
  mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc caches
  slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations
  mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node
  slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processor
  slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_match
  slub: add 'likely' macro to inc_slabs_node()
  slub: correct to calculate num of acquired objects in get_partial_node()
  slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches
  mm/sl[au]b: correct allocation type check in kmalloc_slab()
  slab: Fixup CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC/DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK sections
  slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly
  slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node
  slab: Rename list3/l3 to node
  slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination
  stat: Use size_t for sizes instead of unsigned
  slab: Common function to create the kmalloc array
  slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches
  slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
  slab: Rename nodelists to node
  slab: Common name for the per node structures
  ...
2013-05-07 08:42:20 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
69df2ac128 Merge branch 'slab/next' into slab/for-linus 2013-05-07 09:19:47 +03:00
Aaron Tomlin
14e50c6a9b mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node
If the nodeid is > num_online_nodes() this can cause an Oops and a
panic(). The purpose of this patch is to assert if this condition is
true to aid debugging efforts rather than some random NULL pointer
dereference or page fault.

This patch is in response to BZ#42967 [1].  Using VM_BUG_ON so it's used
only when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set, given that ____cache_alloc_node() is a
hot code path.

[1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42967

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-05-01 10:57:43 +03:00
Joe Perches
071361d347 mm: Convert print_symbol to %pSR
Use the new vsprintf extension to avoid any possible
message interleaving.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-04-29 15:24:33 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
db84506734 slab: Fixup CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC/DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK sections
Variables were not properly converted and the conversion caused
a naming conflict.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-06 20:36:14 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
ca34956b80 slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node
Put the definitions for the kmem_cache_node structures together so that
we have one structure. That will allow us to create more common fields in
the future which could yield more opportunities to share code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:09 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
ce8eb6c424 slab: Rename list3/l3 to node
The list3 or l3 pointers are pointing to per node structures. Reflect
that in the names of variables used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:09 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
2c59dd6544 slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination
Extract the optimized lookup functions from slub and put them into
slab_common.c. Then make slab use these functions as well.

Joonsoo notes that this fixes some issues with constant folding which
also reduces the code size for slub.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/20/82

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:08 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
f97d5f634d slab: Common function to create the kmalloc array
The kmalloc array is created in similar ways in both SLAB
and SLUB. Create a common function and have both allocators
call that function.

V1->V2:
	Whitespace cleanup

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:08 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
9425c58e54 slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches
Have a common definition fo the kmalloc cache arrays in
SLAB and SLUB

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:07 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
6a67368c36 slab: Rename nodelists to node
Have a common naming between both slab caches for future changes.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:06 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
6744f087ba slab: Common name for the per node structures
Rename the structure used for the per node structures in slab
to have a name that expresses that fact.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:06 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
e33660165c slab: Use common kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size functions
Make slab use the common functions. We can get rid of a lot
of old ugly stuff as a results. Among them the sizes
array and the weird include/linux/kmalloc_sizes file and
some pretty bad #include statements in slab_def.h.

The one thing that is different in slab is that the 32 byte
cache will also be created for arches that have page sizes
larger than 4K. There are numerous smaller allocations that
SLOB and SLUB can handle better because of their support for
smaller allocation sizes so lets keep the 32 byte slab also
for arches with > 4K pages.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:06 +02:00
Rusty Russell
373d4d0997 taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-21 17:17:57 +10:30
Glauber Costa
ebe945c276 memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
This patch clarifies two aspects of cache attribute propagation.

First, the expected context for the for_each_memcg_cache macro in
memcontrol.h.  The usages already in the codebase are safe.  In mm/slub.c,
it is trivially safe because the lock is acquired right before the loop.
In mm/slab.c, it is less so: the lock is acquired by an outer function a
few steps back in the stack, so a VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure it is
indeed safe.

A comment is also added to detail why we are returning the value of the
parent cache and ignoring the children's when we propagate the attributes.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
Glauber Costa
943a451a87 slab: propagate tunable values
SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables.  When
creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the
parent cache already had.

This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the
cache is created.  But this is not very convenient now that the caches are
created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific.

Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that
do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is
called at cache initialization.  We can just preset the values, and then
things work as expected.

It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during
normal system operation.  In this case, we will propagate the change to
all caches that are already active.

This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in
memcg_params a bit earlier.  We need this to be already set - which
memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create()

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
1f458cbf12 memcg: destroy memcg caches
Implement destruction of memcg caches.  Right now, only caches where our
reference counter is the last remaining are deleted.  If there are any
other reference counters around, we just leave the caches lying around
until they go away.

When that happens, a destruction function is called from the cache code.
Caches are only destroyed in process context, so we queue them up for
later processing in the general case.

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
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
6ccfb5bcf5 slab: annotate on-slab caches nodelist locks
We currently provide lockdep annotation for kmalloc caches, and also
caches that have SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS enabled.  The reason for this is that
we can quite frequently nest in the l3->list_lock lock, which is not
something trivial to avoid.

My proposal with this patch, is to extend this to caches whose slab
management object lives within the slab as well ("on_slab").  The need for
this arose in the context of testing kmemcg-slab patches.  With such
patchset, we can have per-memcg kmalloc caches.  So the same path that led
to nesting between kmalloc caches will could then lead to in-memcg
nesting.  Because they are not annotated, lockdep will trigger.

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
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
2f9baa9fcf slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrap
Simplify setup and reduce code in kmem_cache_init(). This allows us to
get rid of initarray_cache as well as the manual setup code for
the kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node arrays during bootstrap.

We introduce a new bootstrap state "PARTIAL" for slab that signals the
creation of a kmem_cache boot cache.

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
3c58346525 slab: Simplify bootstrap
The nodelists field in kmem_cache is pointing to the first unused
object in the array field when bootstrap is complete.

A problem with the current approach is that the statically sized
kmem_cache structure use on boot can only contain NR_CPUS entries.
If the number of nodes plus the number of cpus is greater then we
would overwrite memory following the kmem_cache_boot definition.

Increase the size of the array field to ensure that also the node
pointers fit into the array field.

Once we do that we no longer need the kmem_cache_nodelists
array and we can then also use that structure elsewhere.

Acked-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
Randy Dunlap
a755b76ab4 mm: fix slab.c kernel-doc warnings
Fix new kernel-doc warnings in mm/slab.c:

Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): No description found for parameter 'cachep'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'name' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'size' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'align' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'ctor' description in '__kmem_cache_create'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-11-15 10:01:08 +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
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
Linus Torvalds
125b79d74a Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "New and noteworthy:

  * More SLAB allocator unification patches from Christoph Lameter and
    others.  This paves the way for slab memcg patches that hopefully
    will land in v3.8.

  * SLAB tracing improvements from Ezequiel Garcia.

  * Kernel tainting upon SLAB corruption from Dave Jones.

  * Miscellanous SLAB allocator bug fixes and improvements from various
    people."

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (43 commits)
  slab: Fix build failure in __kmem_cache_create()
  slub: init_kmem_cache_cpus() and put_cpu_partial() can be static
  mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration
  Revert "mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration"
  mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller
  mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration
  mm/slab: Fix typo _RET_IP -> _RET_IP_
  mm, slub: Rename slab_alloc() -> slab_alloc_node() to match SLAB
  mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()
  mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype
  mm, slab: Replace 'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long
  mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()
  mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size()
  mm, slob: Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1
  mm, sl[au]b: Taint kernel when we detect a corrupted slab
  slab: Only define slab_error for DEBUG
  slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock
  slub: Zero initial memory segment for kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node
  Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common"
  mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code
  ...
2012-10-07 07:53:13 +09:00
Pekka Enberg
e2087be35a Merge branch 'slab/tracing' into slab/for-linus 2012-10-03 09:57:17 +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
Tetsuo Handa
608da7e3fc slab: Fix build failure in __kmem_cache_create()
Fix build failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y && CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y caused
by commit 8a13a4cc "mm/sl[aou]b: Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists".

mm/slab.c: In function '__kmem_cache_create':
mm/slab.c:2474: error: 'align' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slab.c:2474: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slab.c:2474: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [mm/slab.o] Error 1
make: *** [mm] Error 2

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-03 09:53:34 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
033d9959ed Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
c0b24b5100 Revert "mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration"
This reverts commit 1e5965bf1f. Ezequiel
Garcia has a better fix.
2012-09-29 10:00:59 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
1e5965bf1f mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration
The bug was introduced in commit 4052147c0a ("mm, slab: Match SLAB
and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype").

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 21:47:21 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
592f41450d mm/slab: Fix typo _RET_IP -> _RET_IP_
The bug was introduced by commit 7c0cb9c64f ("mm, slab: Replace
'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long").

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 21:47:00 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
48356303ff mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()
This patch does not fix anything and its only goal is to
produce common code between SLAB and SLUB.

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 10:18:34 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
4052147c0a mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype
This long (seemingly unnecessary) patch does not fix anything and
its only goal is to produce common code between SLAB and SLUB.

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 10:17:24 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
7c0cb9c64f mm, slab: Replace 'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long
This allows to use _RET_IP_ instead of builtin_address(0), thus
achiveing implementation consistency in all three allocators.
Though maybe a nitpick, the real goal behind this patch is
to be able to obtain common code between SLAB and SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:15:58 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia
ff4fcd01ec mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size()
This function is seldom used, and can be simply replaced with cachep->size.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:12:19 +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
Christoph Lameter
f28510d30c slab: Only define slab_error for DEBUG
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (sparc64 defconfig)
> produced this warning:
>
> mm/slab.c:808:13: warning: '__slab_error' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>
> Introduced by commit 945cf2b619 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Extract a common
> function for kmem_cache_destroy").  All uses of slab_error() are now
> guarded by DEBUG.

There is no use case left for slab builds without DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-19 09:58:06 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim
d014dc2ed4 slab: fix starting index for finding another object
In array cache, there is a object at index 0, check it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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
Mel Gorman
30c29bea6a slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab
Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we
clear SlabPfmemalloc flag.  This is fine for most swap-over-network use
cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use.  Unfortunately it
is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail
page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy.  This patch ensures that
the head page is always used.

This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim.

[js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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
Michael Wang
947ca1856a slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock
DEADLOCK will be report while running a kernel with NUMA and LOCKDEP enabled,
the process of this fake report is:

	   kmem_cache_free()	//free obj in cachep
	-> cache_free_alien()	//acquire cachep's l3 alien lock
	-> __drain_alien_cache()
	-> free_block()
	-> slab_destroy()
	-> kmem_cache_free()	//free slab in cachep->slabp_cache
	-> cache_free_alien()	//acquire cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien lock

Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class,
fake report generated.

This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will
reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien.

However, init_lock_keys() was invoked at a wrong position which is before we
invoke enable_cpucache() on each cache.

Since until set slab_state to be FULL, we won't invoke enable_cpucache()
on caches to build their l3 alien while creating them, so although we invoked
init_lock_keys(), the l3 alien lock class won't change since we don't have
them until invoked enable_cpucache() later.

This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache()
instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report.

Michael traced the problem back to a commit in release 3.0.0:

commit 30765b92ad
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 28 23:22:56 2011 +0200

    slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them

    Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we
    annotate the locks, cure this.

    The relevant portion of the stack-trace:

    > [    0.000000]  [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf

    Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The commit moved init_lock_keys() before we build up the alien, so we
failed to reclass it.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.0+
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-11 19:29:18 +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
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
David Rientjes
51cd8e6ff2 mm, slab: lock the correct nodelist after reenabling irqs
cache_grow() can reenable irqs so the cpu (and node) can change, so ensure
that we take list_lock on the correct nodelist.

This fixes an issue with commit 072bb0aa5e ("mm: sl[au]b: add
knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages") where list_lock for the wrong
node was taken after growing the cache.

Reported-and-tested-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-08-29 11:32:21 -07:00
Tejun Heo
203b42f731 workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
Initalizers for deferrable delayed_work are confused.

* __DEFERRED_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRED_WORK()
* INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE()

Rename them to

* __DEFERRABLE_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
* INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK()

This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 13:18:23 -07:00
David Rientjes
5b74beb425 mm, slab: remove page_get_cache
page_get_cache() isn't called from anything, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-17 15:35:44 +03:00
Michel Lespinasse
48f2474144 slab: do not call compound_head() in page_get_cache()
page_get_cache() does not need to call compound_head(), as its unique
caller virt_to_slab() already makes sure to return a head page.

Additionally, removing the compound_head() call makes page_get_cache()
consistent with page_get_slab().

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 09:32:19 +03:00
Mel Gorman
381760eadc mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call
Getting and putting objects in SLAB currently requires a function call but
the bulk of the work is related to PFMEMALLOC reserves which are only
consumed when network-backed storage is critical.  Use an inline function
to determine if the function call is required.

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 18:42:46 -07:00
Mel Gorman
b37f1dd0f5 mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves
__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much
like PF_MEMALLOC.  It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in
object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as
sk->sk_allocation.  This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers
using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now
enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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
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
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
Glauber Costa
a164f89628 slab: move FULL state transition to an initcall
During kmem_cache_init_late(), we transition to the LATE state,
and after some more work, to the FULL state, its last state

This is quite different from slub, that will only transition to
its last state (previously SYSFS), in a (late)initcall, after a lot
more of the kernel is ready.

This means that in slab, we have no way to taking actions dependent
on the initialization of other pieces of the kernel that are supposed
to start way after kmem_init_late(), such as cgroups initialization.

To achieve more consistency in this behavior, that patch only
transitions to the UP state in kmem_init_late. In my analysis,
setup_cpu_cache() should be happy to test for >= UP, instead of
== FULL. It also has passed some tests I've made.

We then only mark FULL state after the reap timers are in place,
meaning that no further setup is expected.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:56:59 +03:00
Feng Tang
d97d476b1b slab: Fix a typo in commit 8c138b "slab: Get rid of obj_size macro"
Commit  8c138b only sits in Pekka's and linux-next tree now, which tries
to replace obj_size(cachep) with cachep->object_size, but has a typo in
kmem_cache_free() by using "size" instead of "object_size", which casues
some regressions.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:45:52 +03:00
Thierry Reding
0672aa7c23 mm, slab: Build fix for recent kmem_cache changes
Commit 3b0efdf ("mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct
kmem_cache") renamed the kmem_cache structure's "next" field to "list"
but forgot to update one instance in leaks_show().

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:42:18 +03:00
Glauber Costa
a618e89f1e slab: rename gfpflags to allocflags
A consistent name with slub saves us an acessor function.
In both caches, this field represents the same thing. We would
like to use it from the mem_cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:40:06 +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
8c138bc009 slab: Get rid of obj_size macro
The size of the slab object is frequently needed. Since we now
have a size field directly in the kmem_cache structure there is no
need anymore of the obj_size macro/function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:19 +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
Christoph Lameter
350260889b slab: Remove some accessors
Those are rather trivial now and its better to see inline what is
really going on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:05 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
e571b0ad34 slab: Use page struct fields instead of casting
Add fields to the page struct so that it is properly documented that
slab overlays the lru fields.

This cleans up some casts in slab.

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>
2012-06-14 09:19:56 +03:00
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
Rafael Aquini
8bdec192b4 mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
Following the example at mm/slub.c, add out-of-memory diagnostics to the
SLAB allocator to help on debugging certain OOM conditions.

An example print out looks like this:

  <snip page allocator out-of-memory message>
  SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0x11200)
    cache: bio-0, object size: 192, order: 0
    node 0: slabs: 3/3, objs: 60/60, free: 0

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-03-10 10:45:17 +02:00
Zhao Jin
42c8c99cd8 slab, cleanup: remove unneeded return
The procedure ends right after the if-statement, so remove ``return''.
Also move the last common statement outside.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-01-23 15:32:26 +02:00
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
Steven Rostedt
4dee6b64ee tracing/mm: Move include of trace/events/kmem.h out of header into slab.c
Including trace/events/*.h TRACE_EVENT() macro headers in other headers
can cause strange side effects if another trace/event/*.h header
includes that header.  Having trace/events/kmem.h inside slab_def.h
caused a compile error in sparc64 when changes were done to some header
files.  Moving the kmem.h trace header out of slab.h and into slab.c
fixes the problem.

Note, both slub.c and slob.c already include the trace/events/kmem.h
file. Only slab.c had it missing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120105190405.1e3191fb5a43b2a0f1655e1f@canb.auug.org.au

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-09 14:19:33 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
52cef18916 slab, lockdep: Fix silly bug
Commit 30765b92 ("slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using
them") moves the init_lock_keys() call from after g_cpucache_up =
FULL, to before it. And overlooks the fact that init_node_lock_keys()
tests for it and ignores everything !FULL.

Introduce a LATE stage and change the lockdep test to be <LATE.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 09:44:00 +01:00
Dave Jones
face37f5e6 slab: 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 21:14:44 +02:00
David Rientjes
3df1cccdfb slab: introduce slab_max_order kernel parameter
Introduce new slab_max_order kernel parameter which is the equivalent of
slub_max_order.

For immediate purposes, allows users to override the heuristic that sets
the max order to 1 by default if they have more than 32MB of RAM.  This
may result in page allocation failures if there is substantial
fragmentation.

Another usecase would be to increase the max order for better
performance.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-10 21:25:30 +02:00
David Rientjes
543585cc5b slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to slab_max_order
slab_break_gfp_order is more appropriately named slab_max_order since it
enforces the maximum order size of slabs as long as a single object will
still fit.

Also rename BREAK_GFP_ORDER_{LO,HI} accordingly.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-10 21:25:30 +02:00
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
Peter Zijlstra
30765b92ad slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them
Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we
annotate the locks, cure this.

The relevant portion of the stack-trace:

> [    0.000000]  [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf

Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:18:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
83835b3d9a slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slab
Lockdep thinks there's lock recursion through:

	kmem_cache_free()
	  cache_flusharray()
	    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock)  <----------------.
	    free_block()                                |
	      slab_destroy()                            |
		call_rcu()                              |
		  debug_object_activate()               |
		    debug_object_init()                 |
		      __debug_object_init()             |
			kmem_cache_alloc()              |
			  cache_alloc_refill()          |
			    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock) --'

Now debug objects doesn't use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and hence there is no
actual possibility of recursing. Luckily debug objects marks it slab
with SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS so we can identify the thing.

Mark all SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS (all one!) slab caches with a special
lockdep key so that lockdep sees its a different cachep.

Also add a WARN on trying to create a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU |
SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS cache, to avoid possible future trouble.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
[ fixes to the initial patch ]
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311341165.27400.58.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:17:54 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
fdde6abb3e slab: use print_hex_dump
Less code and the advantage of ascii dump.

before:
| Slab corruption: names_cache start=c5788000, len=4096
| 000: 6b 6b 01 00 00 00 56 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 2a 00
| 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
| 020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff
| 030: ff ff ff ff e2 b4 17 18 c7 e4 08 06 00 01 08 00
| 040: 06 04 00 01 e2 b4 17 18 c7 e4 0a 00 00 01 00 00
| 050: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 02 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b

after:
| Slab corruption: size-4096 start=c38a9000, len=4096
| 000: 6b 6b 01 00 00 00 56 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 2a 00  kk....V...$...*.
| 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
| 020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff  ................
| 030: ff ff ff ff d2 56 5f aa db 9c 08 06 00 01 08 00  .....V_.........
| 040: 06 04 00 01 d2 56 5f aa db 9c 0a 00 00 01 00 00  .....V_.........
| 050: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 02 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  ........kkkkkkkk

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 19:16:33 +03:00
Andrew Morton
eacbbae385 slab: use NUMA_NO_NODE
Use the nice enumerated constant.

Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-31 18:14:21 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
acfe7d7448 slab: remove one NR_CPUS dependency
Reduce high order allocations in do_tune_cpucache() for some setups.
(NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-28 13:40:08 +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
Tetsuo Handa
7ea466f225 slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warning
In commit c225150b "slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build",
"if ((unsigned long)objp & (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN-1))" is always true if
ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0. Do not print warning if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-22 11:01:03 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
b56efcf0a4 slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
Reduce high order allocations for some setups.
(NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB per kmem_cache struct)

We now allocate exact needed size (using nr_cpu_ids and nr_node_ids)

This also makes code a bit smaller on x86_64, since some field offsets
are less than the 127 limit :

Before patch :
# size mm/slab.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22605  361665      32  384302   5dd2e mm/slab.o

After patch :
# size mm/slab.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22349	 353473	   8224	 384046	  5dc2e	mm/slab.o

CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-20 20:27:56 +03:00
Hugh Dickins
c225150b86 slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build
Fix CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y build error and warnings.

Now that ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN defaults to __alignof__(unsigned long long),
it is always defined (when slab.h included), but cannot be used in #if:
mm/slab.c: In function `cache_alloc_debugcheck_after':
mm/slab.c:3156:5: warning: "__alignof__" is not defined
mm/slab.c:3156:5: error: missing binary operator before token "("
make[1]: *** [mm/slab.o] Error 1

So just remove the #if and #endif lines, but then 64-bit build warns:
mm/slab.c: In function `cache_alloc_debugcheck_after':
mm/slab.c:3156:6: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
mm/slab.c:3158:10: warning: format `%d' expects type `int', but argument
                            3 has type `long unsigned int'
Fix those with casts, whatever the actual type of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-18 15:20:49 +03:00