linux-kernel - [PATCH 20/24] rcu/tree: Make kvfree

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:58:59 +0200
From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>, Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>
Subject: [PATCH 20/24] rcu/tree: Make kvfree_rcu() tolerate any alignment

From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>

Handle cases where the the object being kvfree_rcu()'d is not aligned by
2-byte boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 501cac02146d..649bad7ad0f0 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2877,6 +2877,9 @@ struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data {
 #define KVFREE_BULK_MAX_ENTR \
 	((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data)) / sizeof(void *))
 
+/* Encoding the offset of a fake rcu_head to indicate the head is a wrapper. */
+#define RCU_HEADLESS_KFREE BIT(31)
+
 /**
  * struct kfree_rcu_cpu_work - single batch of kfree_rcu() requests
  * @rcu_work: Let queue_rcu_work() invoke workqueue handler after grace period
@@ -3078,9 +3081,9 @@ static void kfree_rcu_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		next = head->next;
 
 		/* We tag the headless object, if so adjust offset. */
-		headless = (((unsigned long) head - offset) & BIT(0));
+		headless = !!(offset & RCU_HEADLESS_KFREE);
 		if (headless)
-			offset -= 1;
+			offset &= ~(RCU_HEADLESS_KFREE);
 
 		ptr = (void *) head - offset;
 
@@ -3356,7 +3359,7 @@ void kvfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func)
 			 * that has to be freed as well as dynamically
 			 * attached wrapper/head.
 			 */
-			func = (rcu_callback_t) (sizeof(unsigned long *) + 1);
+			func = (rcu_callback_t)(sizeof(unsigned long *) | RCU_HEADLESS_KFREE);
 		}
 
 		head->func = func;
-- 
2.20.1