kmalloc_nolock() relies on ability of local_trylock_t to detect
the situation when per-cpu kmem_cache is locked.
In !PREEMPT_RT local_(try)lock_irqsave(&s->cpu_slab->lock, flags)
disables IRQs and marks s->cpu_slab->lock as acquired.
local_lock_is_locked(&s->cpu_slab->lock) returns true when
slab is in the middle of manipulating per-cpu cache
of that specific kmem_cache.
kmalloc_nolock() can be called from any context and can re-enter
into ___slab_alloc():
kmalloc() -> ___slab_alloc(cache_A) -> irqsave -> NMI -> bpf ->
kmalloc_nolock() -> ___slab_alloc(cache_B)
or
kmalloc() -> ___slab_alloc(cache_A) -> irqsave -> tracepoint/kprobe -> bpf ->
kmalloc_nolock() -> ___slab_alloc(cache_B)
Hence the caller of ___slab_alloc() checks if &s->cpu_slab->lock
can be acquired without a deadlock before invoking the function.
If that specific per-cpu kmem_cache is busy the kmalloc_nolock()
retries in a different kmalloc bucket. The second attempt will
likely succeed, since this cpu locked different kmem_cache.
Similarly, in PREEMPT_RT local_lock_is_locked() returns true when
per-cpu rt_spin_lock is locked by current _task_. In this case
re-entrance into the same kmalloc bucket is unsafe, and
kmalloc_nolock() tries a different bucket that is most likely is
not locked by the current task. Though it may be locked by a
different task it's safe to rt_spin_lock() and sleep on it.
Similar to alloc_pages_nolock() the kmalloc_nolock() returns NULL
immediately if called from hard irq or NMI in PREEMPT_RT.
kfree_nolock() defers freeing to irq_work when local_lock_is_locked()
and (in_nmi() or in PREEMPT_RT).
SLUB_TINY config doesn't use local_lock_is_locked() and relies on
spin_trylock_irqsave(&n->list_lock) to allocate,
while kfree_nolock() always defers to irq_work.
Note, kfree_nolock() must be called _only_ for objects allocated
with kmalloc_nolock(). Debug checks (like kmemleak and kfence)
were skipped on allocation, hence obj = kmalloc(); kfree_nolock(obj);
will miss kmemleak/kfence book keeping and will cause false positives.
large_kmalloc is not supported by either kmalloc_nolock()
or kfree_nolock().
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Since we don't control the NUMA locality of objects in percpu sheaves,
allocations with node restrictions bypass them. Allocations without
restrictions may however still expect to get local objects with high
probability, and the introduction of sheaves can decrease it due to
freed object from a remote node ending up in percpu sheaves.
The fraction of such remote frees seems low (5% on an 8-node machine)
but it can be expected that some cache or workload specific corner cases
exist. We can either conclude that this is not a problem due to the low
fraction, or we can make remote frees bypass percpu sheaves and go
directly to their slabs. This will make the remote frees more expensive,
but if it's only a small fraction, most frees will still benefit from
the lower overhead of percpu sheaves.
This patch thus makes remote object freeing bypass percpu sheaves,
including bulk freeing, and kfree_rcu() via the rcu_free sheaf. However
it's not intended to be 100% guarantee that percpu sheaves will only
contain local objects. The refill from slabs does not provide that
guarantee in the first place, and there might be cpu migrations
happening when we need to unlock the local_lock. Avoiding all that could
be possible but complicated so we can leave it for later investigation
whether it would be worth it. It can be expected that the more selective
freeing will itself prevent accumulation of remote objects in percpu
sheaves so any such violations would have only short-term effects.
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Extend the sheaf infrastructure for more efficient kfree_rcu() handling.
For caches with sheaves, on each cpu maintain a rcu_free sheaf in
addition to main and spare sheaves.
kfree_rcu() operations will try to put objects on this sheaf. Once full,
the sheaf is detached and submitted to call_rcu() with a handler that
will try to put it in the barn, or flush to slab pages using bulk free,
when the barn is full. Then a new empty sheaf must be obtained to put
more objects there.
It's possible that no free sheaves are available to use for a new
rcu_free sheaf, and the allocation in kfree_rcu() context can only use
GFP_NOWAIT and thus may fail. In that case, fall back to the existing
kfree_rcu() implementation.
Expected advantages:
- batching the kfree_rcu() operations, that could eventually replace the
existing batching
- sheaves can be reused for allocations via barn instead of being
flushed to slabs, which is more efficient
- this includes cases where only some cpus are allowed to process rcu
callbacks (CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU)
Possible disadvantage:
- objects might be waiting for more than their grace period (it is
determined by the last object freed into the sheaf), increasing memory
usage - but the existing batching does that too.
Only implement this for CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED as the tiny
implementation favors smaller memory footprint over performance.
Also for now skip the usage of rcu sheaf for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT as the
contexts where kfree_rcu() is called might not be compatible with taking
a barn spinlock or a GFP_NOWAIT allocation of a new sheaf taking a
spinlock - the current kfree_rcu() implementation avoids doing that.
Teach kvfree_rcu_barrier() to flush all rcu_free sheaves from all caches
that have them. This is not a cheap operation, but the barrier usage is
rare - currently kmem_cache_destroy() or on module unload.
Add CONFIG_SLUB_STATS counters free_rcu_sheaf and free_rcu_sheaf_fail to
count how many kfree_rcu() used the rcu_free sheaf successfully and how
many had to fall back to the existing implementation.
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Specifying a non-zero value for a new struct kmem_cache_args field
sheaf_capacity will setup a caching layer of percpu arrays called
sheaves of given capacity for the created cache.
Allocations from the cache will allocate via the percpu sheaves (main or
spare) as long as they have no NUMA node preference. Frees will also
put the object back into one of the sheaves.
When both percpu sheaves are found empty during an allocation, an empty
sheaf may be replaced with a full one from the per-node barn. If none
are available and the allocation is allowed to block, an empty sheaf is
refilled from slab(s) by an internal bulk alloc operation. When both
percpu sheaves are full during freeing, the barn can replace a full one
with an empty one, unless over a full sheaves limit. In that case a
sheaf is flushed to slab(s) by an internal bulk free operation. Flushing
sheaves and barns is also wired to the existing cpu flushing and cache
shrinking operations.
The sheaves do not distinguish NUMA locality of the cached objects. If
an allocation is requested with kmem_cache_alloc_node() (or a mempolicy
with strict_numa mode enabled) with a specific node (not NUMA_NO_NODE),
the sheaves are bypassed.
The bulk operations exposed to slab users also try to utilize the
sheaves as long as the necessary (full or empty) sheaves are available
on the cpu or in the barn. Once depleted, they will fallback to bulk
alloc/free to slabs directly to avoid double copying.
The sheaf_capacity value is exported in sysfs for observability.
Sysfs CONFIG_SLUB_STATS counters alloc_cpu_sheaf and free_cpu_sheaf
count objects allocated or freed using the sheaves (and thus not
counting towards the other alloc/free path counters). Counters
sheaf_refill and sheaf_flush count objects filled or flushed from or to
slab pages, and can be used to assess how effective the caching is. The
refill and flush operations will also count towards the usual
alloc_fastpath/slowpath, free_fastpath/slowpath and other counters for
the backing slabs. For barn operations, barn_get and barn_put count how
many full sheaves were get from or put to the barn, the _fail variants
count how many such requests could not be satisfied mainly because the
barn was either empty or full. While the barn also holds empty sheaves
to make some operations easier, these are not as critical to mandate own
counters. Finally, there are sheaf_alloc/sheaf_free counters.
Access to the percpu sheaves is protected by local_trylock() when
potential callers include irq context, and local_lock() otherwise (such
as when we already know the gfp flags allow blocking). The trylock
failures should be rare and we can easily fallback. Each per-NUMA-node
barn has a spin_lock.
When slub_debug is enabled for a cache with sheaf_capacity also
specified, the latter is ignored so that allocations and frees reach the
slow path where debugging hooks are processed. Similarly, we ignore it
with CONFIG_SLUB_TINY which prefers low memory usage to performance.
[boot failure: https://lore.kernel.org/all/583eacf5-c971-451a-9f76-fed0e341b815@linux.ibm.com/ ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup
hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
begin with.
This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T->function = cb; sequence
with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);
The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.
Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
...
Merge the slab feature branch kfree_rcu_tiny for 6.15:
- Move the TINY_RCU kvfree_rcu() implementation from RCU to SLAB
subsystem and cleanup its integration.
SLUB is the only remaining allocator. We can therefore get rid of
the logic for allocator-specific flags:
* Merge SLAB_CACHE_FLAGS into SLAB_CORE_FLAGS.
* Remove CACHE_CREATE_MASK and instead mask out SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS if
!CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG. SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS is now defined
unconditionally (no impact on existing code, which ignores it if
!CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG).
* Define SLAB_FLAGS_PERMITTED in terms of SLAB_CORE_FLAGS and
SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS (no functional change).
While at it also remove misleading comments that suggest that
multiple allocators are available.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
kvfree_rcu() is batched for better performance except on TINY_RCU, which
is a simple implementation for small UP systems. Similarly SLUB_TINY is
an option intended for small systems, whether or not used together with
TINY_RCU. In case SLUB_TINY is used with !TINY_RCU, it makes arguably
sense to not do the batching and limit the memory footprint. It's also
suboptimal to have RCU-specific #ifdefs in slab code.
With that, add CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED to determine whether batching
kvfree_rcu() implementation is used. It is not set by a user prompt, but
enabled by default and disabled in case TINY_RCU or SLUB_TINY are
enabled.
Use the new config for #ifdef's in slab code and extend their scope to
cover all code used by the batched kvfree_rcu(). For example there's no
need to perform kvfree_rcu_init() if the batching is disabled.
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
RCU has been special-casing callback function pointers that are integers
lower than 4096 as offsets of rcu_head for kvfree() instead. The tree
RCU implementation no longer does that as the batched kvfree_rcu() is
not a simple call_rcu(). The tiny RCU still does, and the plan is also
to make tree RCU use call_rcu() for SLUB_TINY configurations.
Instead of teaching tree RCU again to special case the offsets, let's
remove the special casing completely. Since there's no SLOB anymore, it
is possible to create a callback function that can take a pointer to a
middle of slab object with unknown offset and determine the object's
pointer before freeing it, so implement that as kvfree_rcu_cb().
Large kmalloc and vmalloc allocations are handled simply by aligning
down to page size. For that we retain the requirement that the offset is
smaller than 4096. But we can remove __is_kvfree_rcu_offset() completely
and instead just opencode the condition in the BUILD_BUG_ON() check.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Following the move of TREE_RCU implementation, let's move also the
TINY_RCU one for consistency and subsequent refactoring.
For simplicity, remove the separate inline __kvfree_call_rcu() as
TINY_RCU is not meant for high-performance hardware anyway.
Declare kvfree_call_rcu() in rcupdate.h to avoid header dependency
issues.
Also move the kvfree_rcu_barrier() declaration to slab.h
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
refcount inc & dec
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
use large folios other than PMD-sized ones
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
of the mapletree code
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
a test for the mapletree code
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
(relatively) new mm/vma.c
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
page allocator
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
code when optional compiler warnings are enabled
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
__GFP_HARDWALL
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
pertaining to the pkeys tests
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
logic
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
DAMON's sysfs file interface logic
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
presented in response to DAMOS actions
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
migration to sysfs is completed
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
accounting
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
but also inclusion (allowing) behavior
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
memory descriptors
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
build time with swap-on-zram
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
Park updates DAMON documentation
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
folios, THP folios and migration
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
reading/writing fast devices
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
...
Move kvfree_rcu() functionality to the slab_common.c file.
The reason to have kvfree_rcu() functionality as part of SLAB is that
there is a clear trend and need of closer integration. One of the recent
example is creating a barrier function for SLAB caches.
Another reason is to prevent of having several implementations of RCU
machinery for reclaiming objects after a GP. As future steps, it can be
more integrated(easier) with SLAB internals.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- Add new slab_strict_numa boot parameter to enforce per-object memory
policies on top of slab folio policies, for systems where saving cost
of remote accesses is more important than minimizing slab allocation
overhead (Christoph Lameter)
- Fix for freeptr_offset alignment check being too strict for m68k
(Geert Uytterhoeven)
- krealloc() fixes for not violating __GFP_ZERO guarantees on
krealloc() when slub_debug (redzone and object tracking) is enabled
(Feng Tang)
- Fix a memory leak in case sysfs registration fails for a slab cache,
and also no longer fail to create the cache in that case (Hyeonggon
Yoo)
- Fix handling of detected consistency problems (due to buggy slab
user) with slub_debug enabled, so that it does not cause further list
corruption bugs (yuan.gao)
- Code cleanup and kerneldocs polishing (Zhen Lei, Vlastimil Babka)
* tag 'slab-for-6.13-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create_cache()
mm/slab: Allow cache creation to proceed even if sysfs registration fails
mm/slub: Avoid list corruption when removing a slab from the full list
mm/slub, kunit: Add testcase for krealloc redzone and zeroing
mm/slub: Improve redzone check and zeroing for krealloc()
mm/slub: Consider kfence case for get_orig_size()
SLUB: Add support for per object memory policies
mm, slab: add kerneldocs for common SLAB_ flags
mm/slab: remove duplicate check in create_cache()
mm/slub: Move krealloc() and related code to slub.c
mm/kasan: Don't store metadata inside kmalloc object when slub_debug_orig_size is on
On m68k, where the minimum alignment of unsigned long is 2 bytes:
Kernel panic - not syncing: __kmem_cache_create_args: Failed to create slab 'io_kiocb'. Error -22
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.12.0-atari-03776-g7eaa1f99261a #1783
Stack from 0102fe5c:
0102fe5c 00514a2b 00514a2b ffffff00 00000001 0051f5ed 00425e78 00514a2b
0041eb74 ffffffea 00000310 0051f5ed ffffffea ffffffea 00601f60 00000044
0102ff20 000e7a68 0051ab8e 004383b8 0051f5ed ffffffea 000000b8 00000007
01020c00 00000000 000e77f0 0041e5f0 005f67c0 0051f5ed 000000b6 0102fef4
00000310 0102fef4 00000000 00000016 005f676c 0060a34c 00000010 00000004
00000038 0000009a 01000000 000000b8 005f668e 0102e000 00001372 0102ff88
Call Trace: [<00425e78>] dump_stack+0xc/0x10
[<0041eb74>] panic+0xd8/0x26c
[<000e7a68>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x278/0x2e8
[<000e77f0>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x0/0x2e8
[<0041e5f0>] memset+0x0/0x8c
[<005f67c0>] io_uring_init+0x54/0xd2
The minimal alignment of an integral type may differ from its size,
hence is not safe to assume that an arbitrary freeptr_t (which is
basically an unsigned long) is always aligned to 4 or 8 bytes.
As nothing seems to require the additional alignment, it is safe to fix
this by relaxing the check to the actual minimum alignment of freeptr_t.
Fixes: aaa736b186 ("io_uring: specify freeptr usage for SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU io_kiocb cache")
Fixes: d345bd2e98 ("mm: add kmem_cache_create_rcu()")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/37c588d4-2c32-4aad-a19e-642961f200d7@roeck-us.net
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR.
In particular to bring the fix in
commit aa30eb3260 ("bpf: Force checkpoint when jmp history is too long").
The follow up verifier work depends on it.
And the fix in
commit 6801cf7890 ("selftests/bpf: Use -4095 as the bad address for bits iterator").
It's fixing instability of BPF CI on s390 arch.
No conflicts.
Adjacent changes in:
Auto-merging arch/Kconfig
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/helpers.c
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c
Auto-merging mm/slab_common.c
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
We have many SLAB_ flags but many are used only internally, by kunit
tests or debugging subsystems cooperating with slab, or are set
according to slab_debug boot parameter.
Create kerneldocs for the commonly used flags that may be passed to
kmem_cache_create(). SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU already had a detailed
description, so turn it to a kerneldoc. Add some details for
SLAB_ACCOUNT, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT and SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. Reference
them from the __kmem_cache_create_args() kerneldoc.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
The WARN_ON() check in static function create_cache() is done by its only
parent __kmem_cache_create_args() before calling it.
if (... ||
WARN_ON(... ||
object_size - args->usersize < args->useroffset))
args->usersize = args->useroffset = 0;
...
s = create_cache(cache_name, object_size, args, flags);
Therefore, the WARN_ON() check in create_cache() can be safely removed.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
This is a preparation for the following refactoring of krealloc(),
for more efficient function calling as it will call some internal
functions defined in slub.c.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
This patch addresses an issue introduced by commit 1a83a716ec ("mm:
krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO") which causes MTE
(Memory Tagging Extension) to falsely report a slab-out-of-bounds error.
The problem occurs when zeroing out spare memory in __do_krealloc. The
original code only considered software-based KASAN and did not account
for MTE. It does not reset the KASAN tag before calling memset, leading
to a mismatch between the pointer tag and the memory tag, resulting
in a false positive.
Example of the error:
==================================================================
swapper/0: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __memset+0x84/0x188
swapper/0: Write at addr f4ffff8005f0fdf0 by task swapper/0/1
swapper/0: Pointer tag: [f4], memory tag: [fe]
swapper/0:
swapper/0: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.
swapper/0: Hardware name: MT6991(ENG) (DT)
swapper/0: Call trace:
swapper/0: dump_backtrace+0xfc/0x17c
swapper/0: show_stack+0x18/0x28
swapper/0: dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xa0
swapper/0: print_report+0x1b8/0x71c
swapper/0: kasan_report+0xec/0x14c
swapper/0: __do_kernel_fault+0x60/0x29c
swapper/0: do_bad_area+0x30/0xdc
swapper/0: do_tag_check_fault+0x20/0x34
swapper/0: do_mem_abort+0x58/0x104
swapper/0: el1_abort+0x3c/0x5c
swapper/0: el1h_64_sync_handler+0x80/0xcc
swapper/0: el1h_64_sync+0x68/0x6c
swapper/0: __memset+0x84/0x188
swapper/0: btf_populate_kfunc_set+0x280/0x3d8
swapper/0: __register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x43c/0x468
swapper/0: register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x48/0x60
swapper/0: register_nf_nat_bpf+0x1c/0x40
swapper/0: nf_nat_init+0xc0/0x128
swapper/0: do_one_initcall+0x184/0x464
swapper/0: do_initcall_level+0xdc/0x1b0
swapper/0: do_initcalls+0x70/0xc0
swapper/0: do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28
swapper/0: kernel_init_freeable+0x144/0x1b8
swapper/0: kernel_init+0x20/0x1a8
swapper/0: ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
==================================================================
Fixes: 1a83a716ec ("mm: krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO")
Signed-off-by: Qun-Wei Lin <qun-wei.lin@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
The bpf_get_kmem_cache() is to get a slab cache information from a
virtual address like virt_to_cache(). If the address is a pointer
to a slab object, it'd return a valid kmem_cache pointer, otherwise
NULL is returned.
It doesn't grab a reference count of the kmem_cache so the caller is
responsible to manage the access. The returned point is marked as
PTR_UNTRUSTED.
The intended use case for now is to symbolize locks in slab objects
from the lock contention tracepoints.
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> (mm/*)
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> #mm/slab
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010232505.1339892-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
in this pull request are:
- "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.
- "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.
- "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
functional changes - code cleanups only.
- "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
little cleanup.
- "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
simplifications and .text shrinkage.
- "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".
- "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.
- "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
independent small optimizations of page counters".
- "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.
- "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
unneeded.
- "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.
- "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
even from a userspace-only harness.
- "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
performance.
- "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.
- "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
resulting in the removal of follow_page().
- "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.
- "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,
- "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
yet.
- "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
tree library code.
- "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.
- "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
deprecated.
- "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
allocation.
- "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
code.
- "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.
- "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.
- "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.
- "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.
- "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
performance regression due to the addition of mseal().
- "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!
- "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
accessors/mutators can be removed.
- "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.
- "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
an unrelated vma tree walk.
- "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
better tested.
- "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.
- "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
Code cleanups and folio conversions.
- "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.
- "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.
- "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.
- "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
rationalization.
- "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.
- "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.
- "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.
- "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.
- "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
implementations to better respect guard areas.
- "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.
- "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
pfnmap support.
- "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
CXL memory.
- "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
of poisoned memry.
- "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
than into single-page folios"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
zram: free secondary algorithms names
uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page
uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
...
Merge kmem_cache_create() refactoring by Christian Brauner.
Note this includes a merge of the vfs.file tree that contains the
prerequisity kmem_cache_create_rcu() work.
Merge most of SLUB feature work for 6.12:
- Barrier for pending kfree_rcu() in kmem_cache_destroy() and associated
refactoring of the destroy path (Vlastimil Babka)
- CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG to allow KASAN catching UAF bugs in
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches (Jann Horn)
- kmem_cache_charge() for delayed kmemcg charging (Shakeel Butt)
As kmem_cache_create() became a _Generic() wrapper macro, it currently
has no kerneldoc despite being the main API to use. Add it. Also adjust
kmem_cache_create_usercopy() kerneldoc to indicate it is now a legacy
wrapper.
Also expand the kerneldoc for struct kmem_cache_args, especially for the
freeptr_offset field, where important details were removed with the
removal of kmem_cache_create_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Now that we have ported all users of kmem_cache_create_rcu() to struct
kmem_cache_args the function is unused and can be removed.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Use _Generic() to create a compatibility layer that type switches on the
third argument to either call __kmem_cache_create() or
__kmem_cache_create_args(). If NULL is passed for the struct
kmem_cache_args argument use default args making porting for callers
that don't care about additional arguments easy.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
and initialize most things in do_kmem_cache_create(). In a follow-up
patch we'll remove rcu_freeptr_offset from struct kmem_cache.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Currently we have multiple kmem_cache_create*() variants that take up to
seven separate parameters with one of the functions having to grow an
eigth parameter in the future to handle both usercopy and a custom
freelist pointer.
Add a struct kmem_cache_args structure and move less common parameters
into it. Core parameters such as name, object size, and flags continue
to be passed separately.
Add a new function __kmem_cache_create_args() that takes a struct
kmem_cache_args pointer and port do_kmem_cache_create_usercopy() over to
it.
In follow-up patches we will port the other kmem_cache_create*()
variants over to it as well.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
We can first assess the flags, if it's unmergeable, there's no need
to calculate the size and align.
Signed-off-by: Xavier <xavier_qy@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
As long as krealloc() is called with __GFP_ZERO consistently, starting
with the initial memory allocation, __GFP_ZERO should be fully honored.
However, if for an existing allocation krealloc() is called with a
decreased size, it is not ensured that the spare portion the allocation is
zeroed. Thus, if krealloc() is subsequently called with a larger size
again, __GFP_ZERO can't be fully honored, since we don't know the previous
size, but only the bucket size.
Example:
buf = kzalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL);
memset(buf, 0xff, 64);
buf = krealloc(buf, 48, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
/* After this call the last 16 bytes are still 0xff. */
buf = krealloc(buf, 64, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
Fix this, by explicitly setting spare memory to zero, when shrinking an
allocation with __GFP_ZERO flag set or init_on_alloc enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812223707.32049-1-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When a kmem cache is created with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU the free pointer
must be located outside of the object because we don't know what part of
the memory can safely be overwritten as it may be needed to prevent
object recycling.
That has the consequence that SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU may end up adding a
new cacheline. This is the case for e.g., struct file. After having it
shrunk down by 40 bytes and having it fit in three cachelines we still
have SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU adding a fourth cacheline because it needs to
accommodate the free pointer.
Add a new kmem_cache_create_rcu() function that allows the caller to
specify an offset where the free pointer is supposed to be placed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828-work-kmem_cache-rcu-v3-2-5460bc1f09f6@kernel.org
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
In kmem_buckets_create(), the kmem_buckets object is allocated by
kmem_cache_alloc() from kmem_buckets_cache, but in the failure case,
it's freed by kfree(). This is not wrong, but using kmem_cache_free()
is the more common pattern, so use it.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen <yanzhen@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Currently, KASAN is unable to catch use-after-free in SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
slabs because use-after-free is allowed within the RCU grace period by
design.
Add a SLUB debugging feature which RCU-delays every individual
kmem_cache_free() before either actually freeing the object or handing it
off to KASAN, and change KASAN to poison freed objects as normal when this
option is enabled.
For now I've configured Kconfig.debug to default-enable this feature in the
KASAN GENERIC and SW_TAGS modes; I'm not enabling it by default in HW_TAGS
mode because I'm not sure if it might have unwanted performance degradation
effects there.
Note that this is mostly useful with KASAN in the quarantine-based GENERIC
mode; SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slabs are basically always also slabs with a
->ctor, and KASAN's assign_tag() currently has to assign fixed tags for
those, reducing the effectiveness of SW_TAGS/HW_TAGS mode.
(A possible future extension of this work would be to also let SLUB call
the ->ctor() on every allocation instead of only when the slab page is
allocated; then tag-based modes would be able to assign new tags on every
reallocation.)
Tested-by: syzbot+263726e59eab6b442723@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> #slab
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
We would like to replace call_rcu() users with kfree_rcu() where the
existing callback is just a kmem_cache_free(). However this causes
issues when the cache can be destroyed (such as due to module unload).
Currently such modules should be issuing rcu_barrier() before
kmem_cache_destroy() to have their call_rcu() callbacks processed first.
This barrier is however not sufficient for kfree_rcu() in flight due
to the batching introduced by a35d16905e ("rcu: Add basic support for
kfree_rcu() batching").
This is not a problem for kmalloc caches which are never destroyed, but
since removing SLOB, kfree_rcu() is allowed also for any other cache,
that might be destroyed.
In order not to complicate the API, put the responsibility for handling
outstanding kfree_rcu() in kmem_cache_destroy() itself. Use the newly
introduced kvfree_rcu_barrier() to wait before destroying the cache.
This is similar to how we issue rcu_barrier() for SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
caches, but has to be done earlier, as the latter only needs to wait for
the empty slab pages to finish freeing, and not objects from the slab.
Users of call_rcu() with arbitrary callbacks should still issue
rcu_barrier() before destroying the cache and unloading the module, as
kvfree_rcu_barrier() is not a superset of rcu_barrier() and the
callbacks may be invoking module code or performing other actions that
are necessary for a successful unload.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>