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Christoph Lameter 7cccd80b43 slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processor
As Steven Rostedt has pointer out: rescheduling could occur on a
different processor after the determination of the per cpu pointer and
before the tid is retrieved. This could result in allocation from the
wrong node in slab_alloc().

The effect is much more severe in slab_free() where we could free to the
freelist of the wrong page.

The window for something like that occurring is pretty small but it is
possible.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-05 14:23:06 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 4d7868e647 slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_match
The variables accessed in slab_alloc are volatile and therefore
the page pointer passed to node_match can be NULL. The processing
of data in slab_alloc is tentative until either the cmpxhchg
succeeds or the __slab_alloc slowpath is invoked. Both are
able to perform the same allocation from the freelist.

Check for the NULL pointer in node_match.

A false positive will lead to a retry of the loop in __slab_alloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-05 14:23:05 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim 338b264229 slub: add 'likely' macro to inc_slabs_node()
After boot phase, 'n' always exist.
So add 'likely' macro for helping compiler.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-02 09:42:17 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim 633b076464 slub: correct to calculate num of acquired objects in get_partial_node()
There is a subtle bug when calculating a number of acquired objects.

Currently, we calculate "available = page->objects - page->inuse",
after acquire_slab() is called in get_partial_node().

In acquire_slab() with mode = 1, we always set new.inuse = page->objects.
So,

	acquire_slab(s, n, page, object == NULL);

	if (!object) {
		c->page = page;
		stat(s, ALLOC_FROM_PARTIAL);
		object = t;
		available = page->objects - page->inuse;

		!!! availabe is always 0 !!!
	...

Therfore, "available > s->cpu_partial / 2" is always false and
we always go to second iteration.
This patch correct this problem.

After that, we don't need return value of put_cpu_partial().
So remove it.

Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-02 09:42:10 +03:00
Glauber Costa 7d557b3cb6 slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches
After we create a boot cache, we may allocate from it until it is bootstraped.
This will move the page from the partial list to the cpu slab list. If this
happens, the loop:

	list_for_each_entry(p, &n->partial, lru)

that we use to scan for all partial pages will yield nothing, and the pages
will keep pointing to the boot cpu cache, which is of course, invalid. To do
that, we should flush the cache to make sure that the cpu slab is back to the
partial list.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reported-by:  Steffen Michalke <StMichalke@web.de>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-28 09:29:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9043a2650c The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether to disable
lockdep, but it's a mechanical change.
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether
  to disable lockdep, but it's a mechanical change."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Add option to not sign modules during modules_install
  MODSIGN: Add -s <signature> option to sign-file
  MODSIGN: Specify the hash algorithm on sign-file command line
  MODSIGN: Simplify Makefile with a Kconfig helper
  module: clean up load_module a little more.
  modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections
  module: constify within_module_*
  taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
  module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.
2013-02-25 15:41:43 -08:00
Mel Gorman 22b751c3d0 mm: rename page struct field helpers
The function names page_xchg_last_nid(), page_last_nid() and
reset_page_last_nid() were judged to be inconsistent so rename them to a
struct_field_op style pattern.  As it looked jarring to have
reset_page_mapcount() and page_nid_reset_last() beside each other in
memmap_init_zone(), this patch also renames reset_page_mapcount() to
page_mapcount_reset().  There are others like init_page_count() but as
it is used throughout the arch code a rename would likely cause more
conflicts than it is worth.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix zcache]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
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 95a05b428c slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
Standardize the constants that describe the smallest and largest
object kept in the kmalloc arrays for SLAB and SLUB.

Differentiate between the maximum size for which a slab cache is used
(KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE) and the maximum allocatable size
(KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE, KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:07 +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 5413dfba88 slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry
Sasha Levin recently reported a lockdep problem resulting from the new
attribute propagation introduced by kmemcg series.  In short, slab_mutex
will be called from within the sysfs attribute store function.  This will
create a dependency, that will later be held backwards when a cache is
destroyed - since destruction occurs with the slab_mutex held, and then
calls in to the sysfs directory removal function.

In this patch, I propose to adopt a strategy close to what
__kmem_cache_create does before calling sysfs_slab_add, and release the
lock before the call to sysfs_slab_remove.  This is pretty much the last
operation in the kmem_cache_shutdown() path, so we could do better by
splitting this and moving this call alone to later on.  This will fit
nicely when sysfs handling is consistent between all caches, but will look
weird now.

Lockdep info:

  ======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  3.7.0-rc4-next-20121106-sasha-00008-g353b62f #117 Tainted: G        W
  -------------------------------------------------------
  trinity-child13/6961 is trying to acquire lock:
   (s_active#43){++++.+}, at:  sysfs_addrm_finish+0x31/0x60

  but task is already holding lock:
   (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at:  kmem_cache_destroy+0x22/0xe0

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
  -> #1 (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}:
          lock_acquire+0x1aa/0x240
          __mutex_lock_common+0x59/0x5a0
          mutex_lock_nested+0x3f/0x50
          slab_attr_store+0xde/0x110
          sysfs_write_file+0xfa/0x150
          vfs_write+0xb0/0x180
          sys_pwrite64+0x60/0xb0
          tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
  -> #0 (s_active#43){++++.+}:
          __lock_acquire+0x14df/0x1ca0
          lock_acquire+0x1aa/0x240
          sysfs_deactivate+0x122/0x1a0
          sysfs_addrm_finish+0x31/0x60
          sysfs_remove_dir+0x89/0xd0
          kobject_del+0x16/0x40
          __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x40/0x60
          kmem_cache_destroy+0x40/0xe0
          mon_text_release+0x78/0xe0
          __fput+0x122/0x2d0
          ____fput+0x9/0x10
          task_work_run+0xbe/0x100
          do_exit+0x432/0xbd0
          do_group_exit+0x84/0xd0
          get_signal_to_deliver+0x81d/0x930
          do_signal+0x3a/0x950
          do_notify_resume+0x3e/0x90
          int_signal+0x12/0x17

  other info that might help us debug this:

   Possible unsafe locking scenario:

         CPU0                    CPU1
         ----                    ----
    lock(slab_mutex);
                                 lock(s_active#43);
                                 lock(slab_mutex);
    lock(s_active#43);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  2 locks held by trinity-child13/6961:
   #0:  (mon_lock){+.+.+.}, at:  mon_text_release+0x25/0xe0
   #1:  (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at:  kmem_cache_destroy+0x22/0xe0

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 6961, comm: trinity-child13 Tainted: G        W    3.7.0-rc4-next-20121106-sasha-00008-g353b62f #117
  Call Trace:
    print_circular_bug+0x1fb/0x20c
    __lock_acquire+0x14df/0x1ca0
    lock_acquire+0x1aa/0x240
    sysfs_deactivate+0x122/0x1a0
    sysfs_addrm_finish+0x31/0x60
    sysfs_remove_dir+0x89/0xd0
    kobject_del+0x16/0x40
    __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x40/0x60
    kmem_cache_destroy+0x40/0xe0
    mon_text_release+0x78/0xe0
    __fput+0x122/0x2d0
    ____fput+0x9/0x10
    task_work_run+0xbe/0x100
    do_exit+0x432/0xbd0
    do_group_exit+0x84/0xd0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x81d/0x930
    do_signal+0x3a/0x950
    do_notify_resume+0x3e/0x90
    int_signal+0x12/0x17

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
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 107dab5c92 slub: slub-specific propagation changes
SLUB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with sysfs-based
tunables.  When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any
tunables the parent cache already had.

This can be done by tapping into the store attribute function provided by
the allocator.  We of course don't need to mess with read-only fields.
Since the attributes can have multiple types and are stored internally by
sysfs, the best strategy is to issue a ->show() in the root cache, and
then ->store() in the memcg cache.

The drawback of that, is that sysfs can allocate up to a page in buffering
for show(), that we are likely not to need, but also can't guarantee.  To
avoid always allocating a page for that, we can update the caches at store
time with the maximum attribute size ever stored to the root cache.  We
will then get a buffer big enough to hold it.  The corolary to this, is
that if no stores happened, nothing will be propagated.

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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code to avoid __maybe_unused]
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 2633d7a028 slab/slub: consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cache
Allow a memcg parameter to be passed during cache creation.  When the slub
allocator is being used, it will only merge caches that belong to the same
memcg.  We'll do this by scanning the global list, and then translating
the cache to a memcg-specific cache

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

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

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ae664dba27 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "This contains preparational work from Christoph Lameter and Glauber
  Costa for SLAB memcg and cleanups and improvements from Ezequiel
  Garcia and Joonsoo Kim.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 4590685546 mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code
Extract the code to do object alignment from the allocators.
Do the alignment calculations in slab_common so that the
__kmem_cache_create functions of the allocators do not have
to deal with alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:28 +02:00
Christoph Lameter dffb4d605c slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap
Simplify bootstrap by statically allocated two kmem_cache structures. These are
freed after bootup is complete. Allows us to no longer worry about calculations
of sizes of kmem_cache structures during bootstrap.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 09:13:01 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia 242860a47a mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h
This function is identically defined in all three allocators
and it's trivial to move it to slab.h

Since now it's static, inline, header-defined function
this patch also drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL tag.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 08:52:15 +02:00
Glauber Costa 1b4f59e356 slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page
Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which
cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are two reasons for this.

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

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

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

Conflicts:
	mm/slob.c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  And he console log.

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

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

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

Sedat Dilek and Hugh Dickins reported similar problems as well.

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

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

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

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

Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:07:44 +03:00
Christoph Lameter cce89f4f69 mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code
Get rid of the refcount stuff in the allocators and do that part of
kmem_cache management in the common code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:37 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 8a13a4cc80 mm/sl[aou]b: Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists
Do the initial settings of the fields in common code. This will allow us
to push more processing into common code later and improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:37 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 278b1bb131 mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache allocations into common code
Shift the allocations to common code. That way the allocation and
freeing of the kmem_cache structures is handled by common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 96d17b7be0 mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common
Simplify locking by moving the slab_add_sysfs after all locks have been
dropped. Eases the upcoming move to provide sysfs support for all
allocators.

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

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

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 12c3667fb7 mm/sl[aou]b: Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy
What is done there can be done in __kmem_cache_shutdown.

This affects RCU handling somewhat. On rcu free all slab allocators do
not refer to other management structures than the kmem_cache structure.
Therefore these other structures can be freed before the rcu deferred
free to the page allocator occurs.

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 8f4c765c22 mm/sl[aou]b: Move freeing of kmem_cache structure to common code
The freeing action is basically the same in all slab allocators.
Move to the common kmem_cache_destroy() function.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 9b030cb865 mm/sl[aou]b: Use "kmem_cache" name for slab cache with kmem_cache struct
Make all allocators use the "kmem_cache" slabname for the "kmem_cache"
structure.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:36 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 945cf2b619 mm/sl[aou]b: Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy
kmem_cache_destroy does basically the same in all allocators.

Extract common code which is easy since we already have common mutex
handling.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 7c9adf5a54 mm/sl[aou]b: Move list_add() to slab_common.c
Move the code to append the new kmem_cache to the list of slab caches to
the kmem_cache_create code in the shared code.

This is possible now since the acquisition of the mutex was moved into
kmem_cache_create().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 208c4358dc mm/slub: Use kmem_cache for the kmem_cache structure
Do not use kmalloc() but kmem_cache_alloc() for the allocation
of the kmem_cache structures in slub.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks

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

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

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

Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This fixes a warning for such allocations:

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

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

Then we can also move more checks out of SLAB's kmem_cache_create()
into the common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:42 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 18004c5d40 mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition
Use the mutex definition from SLAB and make it the common way to take a sleeping lock.

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

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

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 97d0660915 mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators
All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status.

Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab
allocators use that definition.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 039363f38b mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()
Kmem_cache_create() does a variety of sanity checks but those
vary depending on the allocator. Use the strictest tests and put them into
a slab_common file. Make the tests conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

This patch has the effect of adding sanity checks for SLUB and SLOB
under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and removes the checks in SLAB for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:30 +03:00
Julia Lawall 068ce415be slub: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable
If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
the end of the iterator.  The patch replaces s->name by al->name, which is
referenced nearby.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can see cmpxchg_double_slab fail rate is improved slightly.

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

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

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

      13.691837307 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.24% )

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

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

      13.596272341 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.22% )

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

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

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

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

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

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

v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 10:01:04 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 3b0efdfa1e mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache
Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators.
A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is
required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given.

After that it will be possible to share code that
only operates on those fields of kmem_cache.

The patch basically takes the slob definition of kmem cache and
uses the field namees for the other allocators.

It also standardizes the names used for basic object lengths in
allocators:

object_size	Struct size specified at kmem_cache_create. Basically
		the payload expected to be used by the subsystem.

size		The size of memory allocator for each object. This size
		is larger than object_size and includes padding, alignment
		and extra metadata for each object (f.e. for debugging
		and rcu).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:16 +03:00
Pekka Enberg 23910c50cc Merge branch 'slub/cleanups' into slab/next
* Fix a merge conflict in mm/slub.c::acquire_slab() due to commit 02d7633
  ("slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()").

Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

then memory leak is occurred.

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

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

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

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

Total and loss number is the impact of this patch.

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

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

Then using kmemleak I found these messages:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without this patch the following artificial test case:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before patch :

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

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

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

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

After patch :

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At once also:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch fixes the following problem reported by Christian Kujau:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    groupadd slabinfo
    usermod -a -G slabinfo $MONITOR_USER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Potential future enhancements:

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

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

Performance:

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

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

Return an object pointer instead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This fixes the 64-bit pattern generation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joining reads gives nice speedup:

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

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

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

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

Example output from debugging some funky nfs/rpc behaviour:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dropping interrupt handling significantly simplifies the slowpath.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inline add_partial since it becomes pretty simple.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fixed trivially by the removal of the label itself too.

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

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

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

So simply restore irq flags and return the object.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There may be performance implications since:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Provide a common function for that purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changed from V1:
	use VM_BUG_ON instead BUG_ON

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

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

Changed from v1:
	Export the reserved field via sysfs

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

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

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

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

So there is no need even to disable preemption.

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

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

Kmalloc: alloc/free test

Before:

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

After:

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

Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test

Before:

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

After:

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

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

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

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

slab_ksize() needs to go out of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG section.

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

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

Bugzilla reference #27212

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-23 11:59:30 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 63310467a3 mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()
The last user was ext4 and Eric Sandeen removed the call in a recent patch. See
the following URL for the discussion:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=129546975702198&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 597fb188cb Merge branch 'slub/hotplug' into slab/urgent 2011-01-15 13:28:17 +02:00
Joe Perches 62c70bce8a mm: convert sprintf_symbol to %pS
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 04d94879c8 slub: Avoid use of slub_lock in show_slab_objects()
The purpose of the locking is to prevent removal and additions
of nodes when statistics are gathered for a slab cache. So we
need to avoid racing with memory hotplug functionality.

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

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

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.37
Reported-and-tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-11 17:09:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a1e8fad590 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
  tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
  slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
  slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm
  slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
  slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
2011-01-10 08:38:01 -08:00
Nick Piggin ccd35fb9f4 kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- rename kmem_cache_alloc_node_notrace() to
kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace()

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

v2
- keep kmalloc_order_trace inline when !CONFIG_TRACE

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 16:54:37 +03:00