linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib: stackdepot: Add support to configure STACK_HASH

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Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:34:32 +0800
From:   Zhenhua Huang <zhenhuah@...eaurora.org>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     vjitta@...eaurora.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        glider@...gle.com, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        broonie@...nel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yogesh Lal <ylal@...eaurora.org>,
        Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>, tingwei@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: stackdepot: Add support to configure STACK_HASH_SIZE

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 07:27:03AM +0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Sorry if this mail corrupts the mail thread or had heavy mangling
> since I lost this mail from my mailbox so I am sending this mail by
> web gmail.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:18 AM <vjitta@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Yogesh Lal <ylal@...eaurora.org>
> >
> > Use STACK_HASH_ORDER_SHIFT to configure STACK_HASH_SIZE.
> >
> > Aim is to have configurable value for  STACK_HASH_SIZE,
> > so depend on use case one can configure it.
> >
> > One example is of Page Owner, default value of
> > STACK_HASH_SIZE lead stack depot to consume 8MB of static memory.
> > Making it configurable and use lower value helps to enable features like
> > CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER without any significant overhead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yogesh Lal <ylal@...eaurora.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@...eaurora.org>
> > ---
> >  lib/Kconfig      | 9 +++++++++
> >  lib/stackdepot.c | 3 +--
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> > index 18d76b6..b3f8259 100644
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> > @@ -651,6 +651,15 @@ config STACKDEPOT
> >         bool
> >         select STACKTRACE
> >
> > +config STACK_HASH_ORDER_SHIFT
> > +       int "stack depot hash size (12 => 4KB, 20 => 1024KB)"
> > +       range 12 20
> > +       default 20
> > +       depends on STACKDEPOT
> > +       help
> > +        Select the hash size as a power of 2 for the stackdepot hash 
> > table.
> > +        Choose a lower value to reduce the memory impact.
> > +
> >  config SBITMAP
> >         bool
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/stackdepot.c b/lib/stackdepot.c
> > index 2caffc6..413c20b 100644
> > --- a/lib/stackdepot.c
> > +++ b/lib/stackdepot.c
> > @@ -142,8 +142,7 @@ static struct stack_record *depot_alloc_stack(unsigned 
> > long *entries, int size,
> >         return stack;
> >  }
> >
> > -#define STACK_HASH_ORDER 20
> > -#define STACK_HASH_SIZE (1L << STACK_HASH_ORDER)
> > +#define STACK_HASH_SIZE (1L << CONFIG_STACK_HASH_ORDER_SHIFT)
> >  #define STACK_HASH_MASK (STACK_HASH_SIZE - 1)
> >  #define STACK_HASH_SEED 0x9747b28c
> >
> > --
> > QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member 
> > of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
> > 2.7.4
> >
> 
> 1. When we don't use page_owner, we don't want to waste any memory for
> stackdepot hash array.
> 2. When we use page_owner, we want to have reasonable stackdeport hash array
> 
> With this configuration, it couldn't meet since we always need to
> reserve a reasonable size for the array.
> Can't we make the hash size as a kernel parameter?
> With it, we could use it like this.
> 
> 1. page_owner=off, stackdepot_stack_hash=0 -> no more wasted memory
> when we don't use page_owner
> 2. page_owner=on, stackdepot_stack_hash=8M -> reasonable hash size
> when we use page_owner.
Seems we have other users like kasan, and dma_buf_ref which we introduced.
Also we can't guarantee there will not be any other users for stackdepot, so
it's better we not depend on only page owner?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
>