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Thomas Garnier c7ce4f60ac mm: SLAB freelist randomization
Provides an optional config (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM) to randomize
the SLAB freelist.  The list is randomized during initialization of a
new set of pages.  The order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed
at boot for performance.  Each kmem_cache has its own randomized
freelist.  Before pre-computed lists are available freelists are
generated dynamically.  This security feature reduces the predictability
of the kernel SLAB allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks
much less stable.

For example this attack against SLUB (also applicable against SLAB)
would be affected:

  https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/09/10/linux-kernel-can-slub-overflow/

Also, since v4.6 the freelist was moved at the end of the SLAB.  It
means a controllable heap is opened to new attacks not yet publicly
discussed.  A kernel heap overflow can be transformed to multiple
use-after-free.  This feature makes this type of attack harder too.

To generate entropy, we use get_random_bytes_arch because 0 bits of
entropy is available in the boot stage.  In the worse case this function
will fallback to the get_random_bytes sub API.  We also generate a shift
random number to shift pre-computed freelist for each new set of pages.

The config option name is not specific to the SLAB as this approach will
be extended to other allocators like SLUB.

Performance results highlighted no major changes:

Hackbench (running 90 10 times):

  Before average: 0.0698
  After average: 0.0663 (-5.01%)

slab_test 1 run on boot.  Difference only seen on the 2048 size test
being the worse case scenario covered by freelist randomization.  New
slab pages are constantly being created on the 10000 allocations.
Variance should be mainly due to getting new pages every few
allocations.

Before:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 99 cycles kfree -> 112 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 109 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 129 cycles kfree -> 137 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 141 cycles kfree -> 141 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 152 cycles kfree -> 148 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 195 cycles kfree -> 167 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 257 cycles kfree -> 199 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 393 cycles kfree -> 251 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 649 cycles kfree -> 228 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 806 cycles kfree -> 370 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 814 cycles kfree -> 411 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 892 cycles kfree -> 455 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles

After:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 130 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 121 cycles kfree -> 85 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 176 cycles kfree -> 102 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 178 cycles kfree -> 100 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 205 cycles kfree -> 109 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 262 cycles kfree -> 136 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 342 cycles kfree -> 157 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 701 cycles kfree -> 238 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 803 cycles kfree -> 364 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 835 cycles kfree -> 404 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 896 cycles kfree -> 441 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 123 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: propagate gfp_t into cache_random_seq_create()]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.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>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Alexander Potapenko 7ed2f9e663 mm, kasan: SLAB support
Add KASAN hooks to SLAB allocator.

This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB
allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.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>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim d31676dfde mm/slab: alternative implementation for DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK is a debug option.  It's current implementation requires
status buffer so we need more memory to use it.  And, it cause
kmem_cache initialization step more complex.

To remove this extra memory usage and to simplify initialization step,
this patch implement this feature with another way.

When user requests to get slab object owner information, it marks that
getting information is started.  And then, all free objects in caches
are flushed to corresponding slab page.  Now, we can distinguish all
freed object so we can know all allocated objects, too.  After
collecting slab object owner information on allocated objects, mark is
checked that there is no free during the processing.  If true, we can be
sure that our information is correct so information is returned to user.

Although this way is rather complex, it has two important benefits
mentioned above.  So, I think it is worth changing.

There is one drawback that it takes more time to get slab object owner
information but it is just a debug option so it doesn't matter at all.

To help review, this patch implements new way only.  Following patch
will remove useless code.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 127424c86b mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
The cgroup2 memory controller will account important in-kernel memory
consumers per default.  Move all necessary components to CONFIG_MEMCG.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov f7ce3190c4 slab: embed memcg_cache_params to kmem_cache
Currently, kmem_cache stores a pointer to struct memcg_cache_params
instead of embedding it.  The rationale is to save memory when kmem
accounting is disabled.  However, the memcg_cache_params has shrivelled
drastically since it was first introduced:

* Initially:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct list_head list;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
			bool dead;
			atomic_t nr_pages;
			struct work_struct destroy;
		};
	};
};

* Now:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct {
			struct rcu_head rcu_head;
			struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		};
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
		};
	};
};

So the memory saving does not seem to be a clear win anymore.

OTOH, keeping a pointer to memcg_cache_params struct instead of embedding
it results in touching one more cache line on kmem alloc/free hot paths.
Besides, it makes linking kmem caches in a list chained by a field of
struct memcg_cache_params really painful due to a level of indirection,
while I want to make them linked in the following patch.  That said, let
us embed it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim bf0dea23a9 mm/slab: use percpu allocator for cpu cache
Because of chicken and egg problem, initialization of SLAB is really
complicated.  We need to allocate cpu cache through SLAB to make the
kmem_cache work, but before initialization of kmem_cache, allocation
through SLAB is impossible.

On the other hand, SLUB does initialization in a more simple way.  It uses
percpu allocator to allocate cpu cache so there is no chicken and egg
problem.

So, this patch try to use percpu allocator in SLAB.  This simplifies the
initialization step in SLAB so that we could maintain SLAB code more
easily.

In my testing there is no performance difference.

This implementation relies on percpu allocator.  Because percpu allocator
uses vmalloc address space, vmalloc address space could be exhausted by
this change on many cpu system with *32 bit* kernel.  This implementation
can cover 1024 cpus in worst case by following calculation.

Worst: 1024 cpus * 4 bytes for pointer * 300 kmem_caches *
	120 objects per cpu_cache = 140 MB
Normal: 1024 cpus * 4 bytes for pointer * 150 kmem_caches(slab merge) *
	80 objects per cpu_cache = 46 MB

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: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 4ba9920e5e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann.

 2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann.

 3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic
    Sowa and Daniel Borkmann.

 4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket
    ioctl, add a "get" operation to match.  From Ben Hutchings.

 5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also
    from Ben Hutchings.

 6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet.  Basically, if we
    have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or
    device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data.

 7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko.

 8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154
    layers, from Jukka Rissanen.

10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc.

11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich.

12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu.

13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott
    Feldman.

14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can
    already get the TCI.  From Atzm Watanabe.

15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam.

16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du.

17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets.  From Tom
    Herbert.

18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay
    Subramanian.

19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf.

20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination
    address.  From Christoph Paasch.

21) Support 10G in generic phylib.  From Andy Fleming.

22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX
    hash, if provided.  From Tom Herbert.

The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits)
  net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter
  ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up
  fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition
  rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info
  qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55
  qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors.
  qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters.
  qlcnic: Update poll controller code path
  qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup
  qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging.
  qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn.
  bonding: fix u64 division
  rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC
  sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100
  Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer.
  net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs
  tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE()
  ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called
  net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery
  ...
2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
Hannes Frederic Sowa 809fa972fd reciprocal_divide: update/correction of the algorithm
Jakub Zawadzki noticed that some divisions by reciprocal_divide()
were not correct [1][2], which he could also show with BPF code
after divisions are transformed into reciprocal_value() for runtime
invariance which can be passed to reciprocal_divide() later on;
reverse in BPF dump ended up with a different, off-by-one K in
some situations.

This has been fixed by Eric Dumazet in commit aee636c480
("bpf: do not use reciprocal divide"). This follow-up patch
improves reciprocal_value() and reciprocal_divide() to work in
all cases by using Granlund and Montgomery method, so that also
future use is safe and without any non-obvious side-effects.
Known problems with the old implementation were that division by 1
always returned 0 and some off-by-ones when the dividend and divisor
where very large. This seemed to not be problematic with its
current users, as far as we can tell. Eric Dumazet checked for
the slab usage, we cannot surely say so in the case of flex_array.
Still, in order to fix that, we propose an extension from the
original implementation from commit 6a2d7a955d resp. [3][4],
by using the algorithm proposed in "Division by Invariant Integers
Using Multiplication" [5], Torbjörn Granlund and Peter L.
Montgomery, that is, pseudocode for q = n/d where q, n, d is in
u32 universe:

1) Initialization:

  int l = ceil(log_2 d)
  uword m' = floor((1<<32)*((1<<l)-d)/d)+1
  int sh_1 = min(l,1)
  int sh_2 = max(l-1,0)

2) For q = n/d, all uword:

  uword t = (n*m')>>32
  q = (t+((n-t)>>sh_1))>>sh_2

The assembler implementation from Agner Fog [6] also helped a lot
while implementing. We have tested the implementation on x86_64,
ppc64, i686, s390x; on x86_64/haswell we're still half the latency
compared to normal divide.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

  [1] http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/reciprocal-buggy.c
  [2] http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/set-and-dump-filter-k-bug.c
  [3] https://gmplib.org/~tege/division-paper.pdf
  [4] http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html
  [5] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.2556
  [6] http://www.agner.org/optimize/asmlib.zip

Reported-by: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-21 23:17:20 -08:00
Fam Zheng 24755e2e3a slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
cache_chain_mutex has been replaced by slab_mutex. Fix this remaining
outdated comment.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-01-21 07:53:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 24f971abbd Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for
  slab internals similar to mm/slub.c.  This reduces memory usage and
  improves performance:

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

  Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits)
  mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c
  mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h
  slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
  slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
  slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
  slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled
  slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
  slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
  slab: use struct page for slab management
  slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
  slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
  slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
  slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
  slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
  slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
  slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
  slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
  slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
  slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
  slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
  ...
2013-11-22 08:10:34 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim 8456a648cf slab: use struct page for slab management
Now, there are a few field in struct slab, so we can overload these
over struct page. This will save some memory and reduce cache footprint.

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

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

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-24 20:17:34 +03:00
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
Christoph Lameter 6286ae97d1 slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations
The inline path seems to have changed the SLAB behavior for very large
kmalloc allocations with  commit e3366016 ("slab: Use common
kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size functions"). This patch restores the old
behavior but also adds diagnostics so that we can figure where in the
code these large allocations occur.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201305040348.CIF81716.OStQOHFJMFLOVF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[ penberg@kernel.org: use WARN_ON_ONCE ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-05-06 09:24:16 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 9425c58e54 slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches
Have a common definition fo the kmalloc cache arrays in
SLAB and SLUB

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

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:06 +02:00
Glauber Costa ba6c496ed8 slab/slub: struct memcg_params
For the kmem slab controller, we need to record some extra information in
the kmem_cache structure.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 3c58346525 slab: Simplify bootstrap
The nodelists field in kmem_cache is pointing to the first unused
object in the array field when bootstrap is complete.

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

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

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

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:27 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia dffa3f9850 mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration
This bug was introduced in commit 4052147 ("mm, slab: Match SLAB and
SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype").

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-29 10:02:27 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia 4052147c0a mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype
This long (seemingly unnecessary) patch does not fix anything and
its only goal is to produce common code between SLAB and SLUB.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:17:24 +03:00
Ezequiel Garcia ff4fcd01ec mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size()
This function is seldom used, and can be simply replaced with cachep->size.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25 10:12:19 +03:00
David Rientjes c0931ef1f3 mm, slab: remove dflags
cachep->dflags is never referenced, so remove it.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-17 14:32:02 +03:00
Glauber Costa a618e89f1e slab: rename gfpflags to allocflags
A consistent name with slub saves us an acessor function.
In both caches, this field represents the same thing. We would
like to use it from the mem_cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:40:06 +03:00
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
Steven Rostedt 4dee6b64ee tracing/mm: Move include of trace/events/kmem.h out of header into slab.c
Including trace/events/*.h TRACE_EVENT() macro headers in other headers
can cause strange side effects if another trace/event/*.h header
includes that header.  Having trace/events/kmem.h inside slab_def.h
caused a compile error in sparc64 when changes were done to some header
files.  Moving the kmem.h trace header out of slab.h and into slab.c
fixes the problem.

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

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

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-09 14:19:33 -08:00
Eric Dumazet b56efcf0a4 slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
Reduce high order allocations for some setups.
(NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB per kmem_cache struct)

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

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

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

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

CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-20 20:27:56 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 3192b920bf slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definition
Every slab has its on alignment definition in include/linux/sl?b_def.h. Extract those
and define a common set in include/linux/slab.h.

SLOB: As notes sometimes we need double word alignment on 32 bit. This gives all
structures allocated by SLOB a unsigned long long alignment like the others do.

SLAB: If ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is not set SLAB would set ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to
zero meaning no alignment at all. Give it the default unsigned long long alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-06-16 19:40:20 +03:00
Steven Rostedt 85beb5869a tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
The tracepoint for kmalloc is in the slab inlined code which causes
every instance of kmalloc to have the tracepoint.

This patch moves the tracepoint out of the inline code to the
slab C file, which removes a large number of inlined trace
points.

  objdump -dr vmlinux.slab| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l
213
  objdump -dr vmlinux.slab.patched| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l
1

This also has a nice impact on size.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7023060	2121564	2482432	11627056	 b16a30	vmlinux.slab
6970579	2109772	2482432	11562783	 b06f1f	vmlinux.slab.patched

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-11-28 21:16:28 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori a6eb9fe105 dma-mapping: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation.

dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment.  Architectures
define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed
buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others).  So
we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

This patch:

dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA
alignment restriction).  However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if
architectures doesn't define it.

Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub
(except for crypto).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:21 -07:00
Li Zefan 039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
David Woodhouse 1f0ce8b3dd mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slab_def.h>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-19 22:03:13 +03:00
Li Zefan 0f24f1287a tracing, slab: Define kmem_cache_alloc_notrace ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
Define kmem_trace_alloc_{,node}_notrace() if CONFIG_TRACING is
enabled, otherwise perf-kmem will show wrong stats ifndef
CONFIG_KMEM_TRACE, because a kmalloc() memory allocation may
be traced by both trace_kmalloc() and trace_kmem_cache_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <4B21F89A.7000801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11 09:17:02 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 8eae985f08 slab: move struct kmem_cache to headers
Move the SLAB struct kmem_cache definition to <linux/slab_def.h> like
with SLUB so kmemcheck can access ->ctor and ->flags.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-13 08:58:43 +02:00
Zhaolei 02af61bb50 tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and tracepoint part
Impact: refactor code for future changes

Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.

Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.

We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:

  include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
  include/trace/kmem.h:      definition of kmem tracepoints

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:22:55 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu ca2b84cb3c kmemtrace: use tracepoints
kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to
use format specifiers to pass arguments.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
[ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build.     ]
[ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled.           ]
[ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dc573f9b20 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-03 06:25:38 +01:00
Jeff Mahoney 1cf3eb2ff6 kmalloc: return NULL instead of link failure
The SLAB kmalloc with a constant value isn't consistent with the other
implementations because it bails out with __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much
rather than returning NULL and properly allowing the caller to fall back
to vmalloc or take other action.  This doesn't happen with a non-constant
value or with SLOB or SLUB.

Starting with 2.6.28, I've been seeing build failures on s390x.  This is
due to init_section_page_cgroup trying to allocate 2.5MB when the max size
for a kmalloc on s390x is 2MB.

It's failing because the value is constant.  The workarounds at the call
size are ugly and the caller shouldn't have to change behavior depending
on what the backend of the API is.

So, this patch eliminates the link failure and returns NULL like the other
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-01-27 23:48:59 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 36994e58a4 tracing/kmemtrace: normalize the raw tracer event to the unified tracing API
Impact: new tracer plugin

This patch adapts kmemtrace raw events tracing to the unified tracing API.

To enable and use this tracer, just do the following:

 echo kmemtrace > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
 cat /debugfs/tracing/trace

You will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565527833 ptr 18446612134395152256
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164672 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164912 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345165152 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071566144042 ptr 18446612134346191680 bytes_req 1304 bytes_alloc 1312 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584

That was to stay backward compatible with the format output produced in
inux/tracepoint.h.

This is the default ouput, but note that I tried something else.

If you change an option:

echo kmem_minimalistic > /debugfs/trace_options

and then cat /debugfs/trace, you will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

   -      C                            0xffff88007c088780          file_free_rcu
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc780     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc870     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc960     -1   d_alloc
   +      K   1304   1312   000000d0   0xffff8800791d7340     -1   reiserfs_alloc_inode
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K    992   1000   000000d0   0xffff880079045b58     -1   alloc_inode
   +      K    768   1024   000080d0   0xffff88007c096400     -1   alloc_pipe_info
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dca50     -1   d_alloc
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088780     -1   get_empty_filp
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088000     -1   get_empty_filp

Yeah I shall confess kmem_minimalistic should be: kmem_alternative.

Whatever, I find it more readable but this a personal opinion of course.
We can drop it if you want.

On the ALLOC/FREE column, + means an allocation and - a free.

On the type column, you have K = kmalloc, C = cache, P = page

I would like the flags to be GFP_* strings but that would not be easy to not
break the column with strings....

About the node...it seems to always be -1. I don't know why but that shouldn't
be difficult to find.

I moved linux/tracepoint.h to trace/tracepoint.h as well. I think that would
be more easy to find the tracer headers if they are all in their common
directory.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 09:36:13 +01:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 36555751c6 kmemtrace: SLAB hooks.
This adds hooks for the SLAB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace.

We also convert some inline functions to __always_inline to make sure
_RET_IP_, which expands to __builtin_return_address(0), always works
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:04 +02:00
Joe Perches 1c61fc40fc slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.h
Make them all use angle brackets and the directory name.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06 16:21:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 158a962422 Unify /proc/slabinfo configuration
Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for
/proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's.

This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB
and SLAB, and shares all the setup code.  Maybe SLOB will want this some
day too.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02 13:04:48 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 81cda66261 Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations
It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline
functions in slab.h.  Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing
functions from the slab allocators and util.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 6cb8f91320 Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics
Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the
allocators.  Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.

Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.

Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment
is requested via __kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Paul Mundt 6193a2ff18 slob: initial NUMA support
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with
small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether
asymmetric or otherwise.

We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node
placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been
specified.  Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring
node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be
reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so
single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in
terms of node id.  Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node
id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have
a matching node id in the page flags.

The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all
partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due
to the single spinlock).  However, these are things that are being reworked
for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily
be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added.

More background can be found in:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2

and subsequent threads.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 3ca12ee549 SLAB: Move two remaining SLAB specific definitions to slab_def.h
Two definitions remained in slab.h that are particular to the SLAB allocator.
Move to slab_def.h

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4b51d66989 [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: optional ZONE_DMA in the VM
Make ZONE_DMA optional in core code.

- ifdef all code for ZONE_DMA and related definitions following the example
  for ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM.

- Without ZONE_DMA, ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_DMA32 we get to a ZONES_SHIFT of
  0.

- Modify the VM statistics to work correctly without a DMA zone.

- Modify slab to not create DMA slabs if there is no ZONE_DMA.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
[jdike@addtoit.com: build fix]
[apw@shadowen.org: Simplify calculation of the number of bits we need for ZONES_SHIFT]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 2e892f43cc [PATCH] Cleanup slab headers / API to allow easy addition of new slab allocators
This is a response to an earlier discussion on linux-mm about splitting
slab.h components per allocator.  Patch is against 2.6.19-git11.  See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=116469577431008&w=2

This patch cleans up the slab header definitions.  We define the common
functions of slob and slab in slab.h and put the extra definitions needed
for slab's kmalloc implementations in <linux/slab_def.h>.  In order to get
a greater set of common functions we add several empty functions to slob.c
and also rename slob's kmalloc to __kmalloc.

Slob does not need any special definitions since we introduce a fallback
case.  If there is no need for a slab implementation to provide its own
kmalloc mess^H^H^Hacros then we simply fall back to __kmalloc functions.
That is sufficient for SLOB.

Sort the function in slab.h according to their functionality.  First the
functions operating on struct kmem_cache * then the kmalloc related
functions followed by special debug and fallback definitions.

Also redo a lot of comments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>?
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00