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Dmitry Safonov 52b4b950b5 mm: slab: free kmem_cache_node after destroy sysfs file
When slub_debug alloc_calls_show is enabled we will try to track
location and user of slab object on each online node, kmem_cache_node
structure and cpu_cache/cpu_slub shouldn't be freed till there is the
last reference to sysfs file.

This fixes the following panic:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
   IP:  list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
   PGD 257304067 PUD 438456067 PMD 0
   Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
   CPU: 3 PID: 973074 Comm: cat ve: 0 Not tainted 3.10.0-229.7.2.ovz.9.30-00007-japdoll-dirty #2 9.30
   Hardware name: DEPO Computers To Be Filled By O.E.M./H67DE3, BIOS L1.60c 07/14/2011
   task: ffff88042a5dc5b0 ti: ffff88037f8d8000 task.ti: ffff88037f8d8000
   RIP: list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
   Call Trace:
     alloc_calls_show+0x1d/0x30
     slab_attr_show+0x1b/0x30
     sysfs_read_file+0x9a/0x1a0
     vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
     SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
   Code: 5e 07 12 00 b9 00 04 00 00 3d 00 04 00 00 0f 4f c1 3d 00 04 00 00 89 45 b0 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 48 63 45 b0 49 8b 9c c4 f8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 43 20 48 85 c0 74 b6 48 89 df e8 46 37 44 00 48 8b 53 10
   CR2: 0000000000000020

Separated __kmem_cache_release from __kmem_cache_shutdown which now
called on slab_kmem_cache_release (after the last reference to sysfs
file object has dropped).

Reintroduced locking in free_partial as sysfs file might access cache's
partial list after shutdowning - partial revert of the commit
69cb8e6b7c ("slub: free slabs without holding locks").  Zap
__remove_partial and use remove_partial (w/o underscores) as
free_partial now takes list_lock which s partial revert for commit
1e4dd9461f ("slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed
partial")

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer 865762a811 slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users.

Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'.  This
is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API.

A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when
specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects.

The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc
run without local IRQs disabled.  With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing"
the entire c->freelist or page->freelist.  To avoid overshooting we would
stop processing at a slab-page boundary.  Else we always end up returning
some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg.

To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older
kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated
objects with this API change.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
Vlastimil Babka 96db800f5d mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node()
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE.  Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise.  In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.

The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac3 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").

Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.

To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage.  Both functions get described in comments.

It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly.  The number of users would be small
anyway.

Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead.  This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.

Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.

To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers.  Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 484748f0b6 slab: infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing
Add the basic infrastructure for alloc/free operations on pointer arrays.
It includes a generic function in the common slab code that is used in
this infrastructure patch to create the unoptimized functionality for slab
bulk operations.

Allocators can then provide optimized allocation functions for situations
in which large numbers of objects are needed.  These optimization may
avoid taking locks repeatedly and bypass metadata creation if all objects
in slab pages can be used to provide the objects required.

Allocators can extend the skeletons provided and add their own code to the
bulk alloc and free functions.  They can keep the generic allocation and
freeing and just fall back to those if optimizations would not work (like
for example when debugging is on).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Fabian Frederick c21a6daf46 slob: make slob_alloc_node() static and remove EXPORT_SYMBOL()
slob_alloc_node() is only used in slob.c.  Remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL and
make slob_alloc_node() static.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov d6e0b7fa11 slub: make dead caches discard free slabs immediately
To speed up further allocations SLUB may store empty slabs in per cpu/node
partial lists instead of freeing them immediately.  This prevents per
memcg caches destruction, because kmem caches created for a memory cgroup
are only destroyed after the last page charged to the cgroup is freed.

To fix this issue, this patch resurrects approach first proposed in [1].
It forbids SLUB to cache empty slabs after the memory cgroup that the
cache belongs to was destroyed.  It is achieved by setting kmem_cache's
cpu_partial and min_partial constants to 0 and tuning put_cpu_partial() so
that it would drop frozen empty slabs immediately if cpu_partial = 0.

The runtime overhead is minimal.  From all the hot functions, we only
touch relatively cold put_cpu_partial(): we make it call
unfreeze_partials() after freezing a slab that belongs to an offline
memory cgroup.  Since slab freezing exists to avoid moving slabs from/to a
partial list on free/alloc, and there can't be allocations from dead
caches, it shouldn't cause any overhead.  We do have to disable preemption
for put_cpu_partial() to achieve that though.

The original patch was accepted well and even merged to the mm tree.
However, I decided to withdraw it due to changes happening to the memcg
core at that time.  I had an idea of introducing per-memcg shrinkers for
kmem caches, but now, as memcg has finally settled down, I do not see it
as an option, because SLUB shrinker would be too costly to call since SLUB
does not keep free slabs on a separate list.  Besides, we currently do not
even call per-memcg shrinkers for offline memcgs.  Overall, it would
introduce much more complexity to both SLUB and memcg than this small
patch.

Regarding to SLAB, there's no problem with it, because it shrinks
per-cpu/node caches periodically.  Thanks to list_lru reparenting, we no
longer keep entries for offline cgroups in per-memcg arrays (such as
memcg_cache_params->memcg_caches), so we do not have to bother if a
per-memcg cache will be shrunk a bit later than it could be.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/118649/focus=118650

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim 61f47105a2 mm/sl[ao]b: always track caller in kmalloc_(node_)track_caller()
Now, we track caller if tracing or slab debugging is enabled.  If they are
disabled, we could save one argument passing overhead by calling
__kmalloc(_node)().  But, I think that it would be marginal.  Furthermore,
default slab allocator, SLUB, doesn't use this technique so I think that
it's okay to change this situation.

After this change, we can turn on/off CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB without full
kernel build and remove some complicated '#if' defintion.  It looks more
benefitial to me.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
Vladimir Davydov 03afc0e25f slab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}
When we create a sl[au]b cache, we allocate kmem_cache_node structures
for each online NUMA node.  To handle nodes taken online/offline, we
register memory hotplug notifier and allocate/free kmem_cache_node
corresponding to the node that changes its state for each kmem cache.

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
Dave Hansen 34bf6ef94a mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru
'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.  Conveniently,
they are unioned together.  This means that code can use them
interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like with this nugget from
slab.c:

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
Christoph Lameter f1b6eb6e6b mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code
The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so
lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes
in slob.

As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for
all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available
in general to perform large order allocations that go directly
via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if
kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations.

kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but
can only used for allocations > PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-09-04 20:51:33 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 54be820019 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg:
 "Highlights:

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

  - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim)

  - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li)

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

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

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
  slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check
  mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
  slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
  slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable
  slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation
  slab: fix init_lock_keys
  slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible
  slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0
  mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo
  mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials
  mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab
  mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
  mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
  slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h
  mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
Steven Rostedt c1e854e924 slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
While doing some code inspection, I noticed that the slob constructor
method can be called with a NULL pointer. If memory is tight and slob
fails to allocate with slob_alloc() or slob_new_pages() it still calls
the ctor() method with a NULL pointer. Looking at the first ctor()
method I found, I noticed that it can not handle a NULL pointer (I'm
sure others probably can't either):

static void sighand_ctor(void *data)
{
        struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;

        spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
        init_waitqueue_head(&sighand->signalfd_wqh);
}

The solution is to only call the ctor() method if allocation succeeded.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 19:19:23 +03:00
Sasha Levin a6d78159f8 slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:50:05 +03:00
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
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
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
Arnd Bergmann 789306e5ad mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
The definition of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is architecture dependent
and can be either of type size_t or int. Comparing that value
with ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN can cause harmless warnings on
platforms where they are different. Since both are always
small positive integer numbers, using the size_t type to compare
them is safe and gets rid of the warning.

Without this patch, building ARM collie_defconfig results in:

mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node':
mm/slob.c:431:152: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'kfree':
mm/slob.c:484:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'ksize':
mm/slob.c:503:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[ penberg@kernel.org: updates for master ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 09:24:22 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia 8cf9864b13 mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations
When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
using put_page() instead.

It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.

This is based on:
commit d9b7f22623
Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 08:53:54 +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
Ezequiel Garcia fe74fe2bf2 mm/slob: Use object_size field in kmem_cache_size()
Fields object_size and size are not the same: the latter might include
slab metadata. Return object_size field in kmem_cache_size().
Also, improve trace accuracy by correctly tracing reported size.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 08:51:35 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia 999d8795d4 mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations
This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
There is no need to store the allocated size and
ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).

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 08:50:43 +02:00
Pekka Enberg e2087be35a Merge branch 'slab/tracing' into slab/for-linus 2012-10-03 09:57:17 +03:00
Pekka Enberg f4178cdddd Merge branch 'slab/common-for-cgroups' into slab/for-linus
Fix up a trivial conflict with NUMA_NO_NODE cleanups.

Conflicts:
	mm/slob.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-03 09:56:37 +03:00
David Rientjes 82bd5508b4 mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> @@ -454,15 +455,35 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
>  			gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
>  		ret = slob_new_pages(gfp, order, node);
>
> -		trace_kmalloc_node(_RET_IP_, ret,
> +		trace_kmalloc_node(caller, ret,
>  				   size, PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp, node);
>  	}
>
>  	kmemleak_alloc(ret, size, 1, gfp);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +
> +void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, _RET_IP_);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> +void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, NUMA_NO_NODE, caller);
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
> +					int node, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, caller);
> +}
> +#endif

This breaks Pekka's slab/next tree with this:

mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node_track_caller':
mm/slob.c:488: error: 'gfp' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slob.c:488: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slob.c:488: error: for each function it appears in.)

mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller

"mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()" breaks the build
because gfp is undeclared.  Fix it.

Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-26 09:33:49 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia f3f7410195 mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()
Currently slob falls back to regular kmalloc for this case.
With this patch kmalloc_track_caller() is correctly implemented,
thus tracing the specified caller.

This is important to trace accurately allocations performed by
krealloc, kstrdup, kmemdup, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:14:18 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia 90f2cbbc49 mm, slob: Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:11:14 +03:00
Christoph Lameter cce89f4f69 mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code
Get rid of the refcount stuff in the allocators and do that part of
kmem_cache management in the common code.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 12:00:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 44a8bdea19 slob: Fix early boot kernel crash
Commit fd3142a59af2012a7c5dc72ec97a4935ff1c5fc6 broke
slob since a piece of a change for a later patch slipped into
it.

Fengguang Wu writes:

  The commit crashes the kernel w/o any dmesg output (the attached one is
  created by the script as a summary for that run). This is very
  reproducible in kvm for the attached config.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-12 10:13:22 +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
Christoph Lameter 3b0efdfa1e mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache
Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators.
A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is
required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given.

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:16 +03:00
Christoph Lameter b5568280c9 slob: Remove various small accessors
Those have become so simple that they are no longer needed.

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@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>
2012-06-14 09:19:52 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 690d577739 slob: No need to zero mapping since it is no longer in use
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@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>
2012-06-14 09:19:50 +03:00
Christoph Lameter b8c24c4aef slob: Define page struct fields used in mm_types.h
Define the fields used by slob in mm_types.h and use struct page instead
of struct slob_page in slob. This cleans up numerous of typecasts in slob.c and
makes readers aware of slob's use of page struct fields.

[Also cleans up some bitrot in slob.c. The page struct field layout
in slob.c is an old layout and does not match the one in mm_types.h]

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:19:47 +03:00
Paul Gortmaker b95f1b31b7 mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants.  They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Steven Rostedt bd50cfa891 slob/lockdep: Fix gfp flags passed to lockdep
Doing a ktest.pl randconfig, I stumbled across the following bug
on boot up:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/kernel/lockdep.c:2649 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xed/0x100()
Hardware name:
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc1-test-00054-g1d68b67 #1
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810626ad>] warn_slowpath_common+0xad/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8106270a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
 [<ffffffff810b537d>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xed/0x100
 [<ffffffff81182fb0>] __kmalloc_node+0x30/0x2f0
 [<ffffffff81153eda>] pcpu_mem_alloc+0x13a/0x180
 [<ffffffff82be022c>] percpu_init_late+0x48/0xc2
 [<ffffffff82bd630c>] ? mem_init+0xd8/0xe3
 [<ffffffff82bbcc73>] start_kernel+0x1c2/0x449
 [<ffffffff82bbc35c>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x163/0x167
 [<ffffffff82bbc493>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x133/0x142^M
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---

Then I ran a ktest.pl config_bisect and it came up with this config
as the problem:

  CONFIG_SLOB

Looking at what is different between SLOB and SLAB and SLUB, I found
that the gfp flags are masked against gfp_allowed_mask in
SLAB and SLUB, but not SLOB.

On boot up, interrupts are disabled and lockdep will warn if some flags
are set in gfp and interrupts are disabled. But these flags are masked
off with the gfp_allowed_mask during boot. Because SLOB does not
mask the flags against gfp_allowed_mask it triggers the warn on.

Adding this mask fixes the bug. I also found that kmem_cache_alloc_node()
was missing both the mask and the lockdep check, and that was added too.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-06-07 21:38:07 +03:00
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
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
David Rientjes 8df275af8d slob: fix gfp flags for order-0 page allocations
kmalloc_node() may allocate higher order slob pages, but the __GFP_COMP
bit is only passed to the page allocator and not represented in the
tracepoint event.  The bit should be passed to trace_kmalloc_node() as
well.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-02 10:24:28 +03:00
Linus Torvalds b57bdda58c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
  Revert "slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot"
  slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
  slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
  slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode.
  slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
  slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
  SLUB: Constants need UL
  slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
  SLOB: Free objects to their own list
  slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Bob Liu d602dabaeb SLOB: Free objects to their own list
SLOB has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce overall external
fragmentation and increase repeatability, free to their own list also.

This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine:

  without this patch:
  ===
  MemTotal:        1030720 kB
  MemFree:          750012 kB
  Buffers:           15496 kB
  Cached:           160396 kB
  SwapCached:            0 kB
  Active:           105024 kB
  Inactive:         145604 kB
  Active(anon):      74816 kB
  Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
  Active(file):      30208 kB
  Inactive(file):   143424 kB
  Unevictable:          16 kB
  ....

  with this patch:
  ===
  MemTotal:        1030720 kB
  MemFree:          751908 kB
  Buffers:           15492 kB
  Cached:           160280 kB
  SwapCached:            0 kB
  Active:           102720 kB
  Inactive:         146140 kB
  Active(anon):      73168 kB
  Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
  Active(file):      29552 kB
  Inactive(file):   143960 kB
  Unevictable:          16 kB
  ...

The result shows an improvement of 1 MB!

And when I tested it on a embeded system with 64 MB, I found this path is never
called during kernel bootup.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:03:20 +03:00