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Message-ID: <20200127080935.GH14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:09:36 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
Cc: pbonzini@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
bp@...en8.de,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dynamically allocate struct cpumask
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 11:16:02PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> This helps avoid avoid a potentially large stack allocation.
>
> When building with:
> $ make CC=clang arch/x86/ CFLAGS=-Wframe-larger-than=1000
> The following warning is observed:
> arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:494:13: warning: stack frame size of 1064 bytes in
> function 'kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself' [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> static void kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself(const struct cpumask *mask, int
> vector)
> ^
> Debugging with:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/frame-larger-than
> via:
> $ python3 frame_larger_than.py arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o \
> kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself
> points to the stack allocated `struct cpumask newmask` in
> `kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself`. The size of a `struct cpumask` is
> potentially large, as it's CONFIG_NR_CPUS divided by BITS_PER_LONG for
> the target architecture. CONFIG_NR_CPUS for X86_64 can be as high as
> 8192, making a single instance of a `struct cpumask` 1024 B.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index 32ef1ee733b7..d41c0a0d62a2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -494,13 +494,15 @@ static void kvm_send_ipi_mask(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector)
> static void kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector)
> {
> unsigned int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> - struct cpumask new_mask;
Right, on stack cpumask is definitely dodgy.
> + struct cpumask *new_mask;
> const struct cpumask *local_mask;
>
> - cpumask_copy(&new_mask, mask);
> - cpumask_clear_cpu(this_cpu, &new_mask);
> - local_mask = &new_mask;
> + new_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
> + cpumask_copy(new_mask, mask);
> + cpumask_clear_cpu(this_cpu, new_mask);
> + local_mask = new_mask;
> __send_ipi_mask(local_mask, vector);
> + kfree(new_mask);
> }
One alternative approach is adding the inverse of cpu_bit_bitmap. I'm
not entirely sure how often we need the all-but-self mask, but ISTR
there were other places too.
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