We consistently switched from kmalloc() to vmalloc() in module
decompression to prevent potential memory allocation failures with large
modules, however vmalloc() is not as memory-efficient and fast as
kmalloc().
Since we don't know in general the size of the workspace required by the
decompression algorithm, it is more reasonable to use kvmalloc()
consistently, also considering that we don't have special memory
requirements here.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use a similar approach as commit a419beac4a ("module/decompress: use
vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace") and replace kmalloc() with
vmalloc() also for the gzip module decompression workspace.
In this case the workspace is represented by struct inflate_workspace
that can be fairly large for kmalloc() and it can potentially lead to
allocation errors on certain systems:
$ pahole inflate_workspace
struct inflate_workspace {
struct inflate_state inflate_state; /* 0 9544 */
/* --- cacheline 149 boundary (9536 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
unsigned char working_window[32768]; /* 9544 32768 */
/* size: 42312, cachelines: 662, members: 2 */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};
Considering that there is no need to use continuous physical memory,
simply switch to vmalloc() to provide a more reliable in-kernel module
decompression.
Fixes: b1ae6dc41e ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
While implementing support for in-kernel decompression in kmod,
finit_module() was returning a very suspicious value:
finit_module(3, "", MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE) = 18446744072717407296
It turns out the check for module_get_next_page() failing is wrong,
and hence the decompression was not really taking place. Invert
the condition to fix it.
Fixes: 169a58ad82 ("module/decompress: Support zstd in-kernel decompression")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Loading modules with finit_module() can end up using vmalloc(), vmap()
and vmalloc() again, for a total of up to 3 separate allocations in the
worst case for a single module. We always kernel_read*() the module,
that's a vmalloc(). Then vmap() is used for the module decompression,
and if so the last read buffer is freed as we use the now decompressed
module buffer to stuff data into our copy module. The last allocation is
specific to each architectures but pretty much that's generally a series
of vmalloc() calls or a variation of vmalloc to handle ELF sections with
special permissions.
Evaluation with new stress-ng module support [1] with just 100 ops
is proving that you can end up using GiBs of data easily even with all
care we have in the kernel and userspace today in trying to not load modules
which are already loaded. 100 ops seems to resemble the sort of pressure a
system with about 400 CPUs can create on module loading. Although issues
relating to duplicate module requests due to each CPU inucurring a new
module reuest is silly and some of these are being fixed, we currently lack
proper tooling to help diagnose easily what happened, when it happened
and who likely is to blame -- userspace or kernel module autoloading.
Provide an initial set of stats which use debugfs to let us easily scrape
post-boot information about failed loads. This sort of information can
be used on production worklaods to try to optimize *avoiding* redundant
memory pressure using finit_module().
There's a few examples that can be provided:
A 255 vCPU system without the next patch in this series applied:
Startup finished in 19.143s (kernel) + 7.078s (userspace) = 26.221s
graphical.target reached after 6.988s in userspace
And 13.58 GiB of virtual memory space lost due to failed module loading:
root@big ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats
Mods ever loaded 67
Mods failed on kread 0
Mods failed on decompress 0
Mods failed on becoming 0
Mods failed on load 1411
Total module size 11464704
Total mod text size 4194304
Failed kread bytes 0
Failed decompress bytes 0
Failed becoming bytes 0
Failed kmod bytes 14588526272
Virtual mem wasted bytes 14588526272
Average mod size 171115
Average mod text size 62602
Average fail load bytes 10339140
Duplicate failed modules:
module-name How-many-times Reason
kvm_intel 249 Load
kvm 249 Load
irqbypass 8 Load
crct10dif_pclmul 128 Load
ghash_clmulni_intel 27 Load
sha512_ssse3 50 Load
sha512_generic 200 Load
aesni_intel 249 Load
crypto_simd 41 Load
cryptd 131 Load
evdev 2 Load
serio_raw 1 Load
virtio_pci 3 Load
nvme 3 Load
nvme_core 3 Load
virtio_pci_legacy_dev 3 Load
virtio_pci_modern_dev 3 Load
t10_pi 3 Load
virtio 3 Load
crc32_pclmul 6 Load
crc64_rocksoft 3 Load
crc32c_intel 40 Load
virtio_ring 3 Load
crc64 3 Load
The following screen shot, of a simple 8vcpu 8 GiB KVM guest with the
next patch in this series applied, shows 226.53 MiB are wasted in virtual
memory allocations which due to duplicate module requests during boot.
It also shows an average module memory size of 167.10 KiB and an an
average module .text + .init.text size of 61.13 KiB. The end shows all
modules which were detected as duplicate requests and whether or not
they failed early after just the first kernel_read*() call or late after
we've already allocated the private space for the module in
layout_and_allocate(). A system with module decompression would reveal
more wasted virtual memory space.
We should put effort now into identifying the source of these duplicate
module requests and trimming these down as much possible. Larger systems
will obviously show much more wasted virtual memory allocations.
root@kmod ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats
Mods ever loaded 67
Mods failed on kread 0
Mods failed on decompress 0
Mods failed on becoming 83
Mods failed on load 16
Total module size 11464704
Total mod text size 4194304
Failed kread bytes 0
Failed decompress bytes 0
Failed becoming bytes 228959096
Failed kmod bytes 8578080
Virtual mem wasted bytes 237537176
Average mod size 171115
Average mod text size 62602
Avg fail becoming bytes 2758544
Average fail load bytes 536130
Duplicate failed modules:
module-name How-many-times Reason
kvm_intel 7 Becoming
kvm 7 Becoming
irqbypass 6 Becoming & Load
crct10dif_pclmul 7 Becoming & Load
ghash_clmulni_intel 7 Becoming & Load
sha512_ssse3 6 Becoming & Load
sha512_generic 7 Becoming & Load
aesni_intel 7 Becoming
crypto_simd 7 Becoming & Load
cryptd 3 Becoming & Load
evdev 1 Becoming
serio_raw 1 Becoming
nvme 3 Becoming
nvme_core 3 Becoming
t10_pi 3 Becoming
virtio_pci 3 Becoming
crc32_pclmul 6 Becoming & Load
crc64_rocksoft 3 Becoming
crc32c_intel 3 Becoming
virtio_pci_modern_dev 2 Becoming
virtio_pci_legacy_dev 1 Becoming
crc64 2 Becoming
virtio 2 Becoming
virtio_ring 2 Becoming
[0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng.git
[1] echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
./stress-ng --module 100 --module-name xfs
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Use kunmap_local() to unmap pages locally mapped with kmap_local_page().
kunmap_local() must be called on the kernel virtual address returned by
kmap_local_page(), differently from how we use kunmap() which instead
expects the mapped page as its argument.
In module_zstd_decompress() we currently map with kmap_local_page() and
unmap with kunmap(). This breaks the code and so it should be fixed.
Cc: Piotr Gorski <piotrgorski@cachyos.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Fixes: 169a58ad82 ("module/decompress: Support zstd in-kernel decompression")
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Piotr Gorski <piotrgorski@cachyos.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Add support for zstd compressed modules to the in-kernel decompression
code. This allows zstd compressed modules to be decompressed by the
kernel, similar to the existing support for gzip and xz compressed
modules.
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Piotr Gorski <lucjan.lucjanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Piotr Gorski <lucjan.lucjanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The module_get_next_page() function return error pointers on error
instead of NULL.
Use IS_ERR() to check the return value to fix this.
Fixes: b1ae6dc41e ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().
Two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as mapping
space is restricted and protected by a global lock for synchronization and
(2) it also requires global TLB invalidation when the kmap’s pool wraps
and it might block when the mapping space is fully utilized until a slot
becomes available.
With kmap_local_page() the mappings are per thread, CPU local, can take
page faults, and can be called from any context (including interrupts).
Tasks can be preempted and, when scheduled to run again, the kernel
virtual addresses are restored and still valid.
kmap_local_page() is faster than kmap() in kernels with HIGHMEM enabled.
Since the use of kmap_local_page() in module_gzip_decompress() and in
module_xz_decompress() is safe (i.e., it does not break the strict rules
of use), it should be preferred over kmap().
Therefore, replace kmap() with kmap_local_page().
Tested on a QEMU/KVM x86_32 VM with 4GB RAM, booting kernels with
HIGHMEM64GB enabled. Modules compressed with XZ or GZIP decompress
properly.
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
This patch will address the following warning and style violations
generated by ./scripts/checkpatch.pl in strict mode:
WARNING: Use #include <linux/module.h> instead of <asm/module.h>
#10: FILE: kernel/module/internal.h:10:
+#include <asm/module.h>
CHECK: spaces preferred around that '-' (ctx:VxV)
#18: FILE: kernel/module/internal.h:18:
+#define INIT_OFFSET_MASK (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))
CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations
#69: FILE: kernel/module/internal.h:69:
+}
+static inline void module_decompress_cleanup(struct load_info *info)
^
CHECK: extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files
#84: FILE: kernel/module/internal.h:84:
+extern int mod_verify_sig(const void *mod, struct load_info *info);
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#116: FILE: kernel/module/decompress.c:116:
+ struct page *page = module_get_next_page(info);
+ if (!page) {
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#174: FILE: kernel/module/decompress.c:174:
+ struct page *page = module_get_next_page(info);
+ if (!page) {
CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations
#258: FILE: kernel/module/decompress.c:258:
+}
+static struct kobj_attribute module_compression_attr = __ATTR_RO(compression);
Note: Fortunately, the multiple-include optimisation found in
include/linux/module.h will prevent duplication/or inclusion more than
once.
Fixes: f314dfea16 ("modsign: log module name in the event of an error")
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
No functional changes.
This patch moves all module related code into a separate directory,
modifies each file name and creates a new Makefile. Note: this effort
is in preparation to refactor core module code.
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Andrea Righi