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Message-ID: <93adcdc0-6f32-45fa-b311-34a27ff94290@linux.dev>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 21:23:38 +0800
From: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing
separately
On 2023/12/5 03:34, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Currently we have a single function slab_free() handling both single
> object freeing and bulk freeing with necessary hooks, the latter case
> requiring slab_free_freelist_hook(). It should be however better to
> distinguish the two use cases for the following reasons:
>
> - code simpler to follow for the single object case
>
> - better code generation - although inlining should eliminate the
> slab_free_freelist_hook() for single object freeing in case no
> debugging options are enabled, it seems it's not perfect. When e.g.
> KASAN is enabled, we're imposing additional unnecessary overhead for
> single object freeing.
>
> - preparation to add percpu array caches in near future
>
> Therefore, simplify slab_free() for the single object case by dropping
> unnecessary parameters and calling only slab_free_hook() instead of
> slab_free_freelist_hook(). Rename the bulk variant to slab_free_bulk()
> and adjust callers accordingly.
>
> While at it, flip (and document) slab_free_hook() return value so that
> it returns true when the freeing can proceed, which matches the logic of
> slab_free_freelist_hook() and is not confusingly the opposite.
>
> Additionally we can simplify a bit by changing the tail parameter of
> do_slab_free() when freeing a single object - instead of NULL we can set
> it equal to head.
>
> bloat-o-meter shows small code reduction with a .config that has KASAN
> etc disabled:
>
> add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 0/-118 (-118)
> Function old new delta
> kmem_cache_alloc_bulk 1203 1196 -7
> kmem_cache_free 861 835 -26
> __kmem_cache_free 741 704 -37
> kmem_cache_free_bulk 911 863 -48
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Thanks!
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 0742564c4538..ed2fa92e914c 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2037,9 +2037,12 @@ static inline void memcg_slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
> /*
> * Hooks for other subsystems that check memory allocations. In a typical
> * production configuration these hooks all should produce no code at all.
> + *
> + * Returns true if freeing of the object can proceed, false if its reuse
> + * was delayed by KASAN quarantine.
> */
> -static __always_inline bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> - void *x, bool init)
> +static __always_inline
> +bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, bool init)
> {
> kmemleak_free_recursive(x, s->flags);
> kmsan_slab_free(s, x);
> @@ -2072,7 +2075,7 @@ static __always_inline bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> s->size - s->inuse - rsize);
> }
> /* KASAN might put x into memory quarantine, delaying its reuse. */
> - return kasan_slab_free(s, x, init);
> + return !kasan_slab_free(s, x, init);
> }
>
> static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> @@ -2082,7 +2085,7 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
>
> void *object;
> void *next = *head;
> - void *old_tail = *tail ? *tail : *head;
> + void *old_tail = *tail;
>
> if (is_kfence_address(next)) {
> slab_free_hook(s, next, false);
> @@ -2098,8 +2101,8 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> next = get_freepointer(s, object);
>
> /* If object's reuse doesn't have to be delayed */
> - if (likely(!slab_free_hook(s, object,
> - slab_want_init_on_free(s)))) {
> + if (likely(slab_free_hook(s, object,
> + slab_want_init_on_free(s)))) {
> /* Move object to the new freelist */
> set_freepointer(s, object, *head);
> *head = object;
> @@ -2114,9 +2117,6 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> }
> } while (object != old_tail);
>
> - if (*head == *tail)
> - *tail = NULL;
> -
> return *head != NULL;
> }
>
> @@ -4227,7 +4227,6 @@ static __always_inline void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
> struct slab *slab, void *head, void *tail,
> int cnt, unsigned long addr)
> {
> - void *tail_obj = tail ? : head;
> struct kmem_cache_cpu *c;
> unsigned long tid;
> void **freelist;
> @@ -4246,14 +4245,14 @@ static __always_inline void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
> barrier();
>
> if (unlikely(slab != c->slab)) {
> - __slab_free(s, slab, head, tail_obj, cnt, addr);
> + __slab_free(s, slab, head, tail, cnt, addr);
> return;
> }
>
> if (USE_LOCKLESS_FAST_PATH()) {
> freelist = READ_ONCE(c->freelist);
>
> - set_freepointer(s, tail_obj, freelist);
> + set_freepointer(s, tail, freelist);
>
> if (unlikely(!__update_cpu_freelist_fast(s, freelist, head, tid))) {
> note_cmpxchg_failure("slab_free", s, tid);
> @@ -4270,7 +4269,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
> tid = c->tid;
> freelist = c->freelist;
>
> - set_freepointer(s, tail_obj, freelist);
> + set_freepointer(s, tail, freelist);
> c->freelist = head;
> c->tid = next_tid(tid);
>
> @@ -4283,15 +4282,27 @@ static void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
> struct slab *slab, void *head, void *tail,
> int cnt, unsigned long addr)
> {
> - void *tail_obj = tail ? : head;
> -
> - __slab_free(s, slab, head, tail_obj, cnt, addr);
> + __slab_free(s, slab, head, tail, cnt, addr);
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_SLUB_TINY */
>
> -static __fastpath_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
> - void *head, void *tail, void **p, int cnt,
> - unsigned long addr)
> +static __fastpath_inline
> +void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void *object,
> + unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + bool init;
> +
> + memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, &object, 1);
> +
> + init = !is_kfence_address(object) && slab_want_init_on_free(s);
> +
> + if (likely(slab_free_hook(s, object, init)))
> + do_slab_free(s, slab, object, object, 1, addr);
> +}
> +
> +static __fastpath_inline
> +void slab_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void *head,
> + void *tail, void **p, int cnt, unsigned long addr)
> {
> memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p, cnt);
> /*
> @@ -4305,7 +4316,7 @@ static __fastpath_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
> #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC
> void ___cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *x, unsigned long addr)
> {
> - do_slab_free(cache, virt_to_slab(x), x, NULL, 1, addr);
> + do_slab_free(cache, virt_to_slab(x), x, x, 1, addr);
> }
> #endif
>
> @@ -4349,7 +4360,7 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
> if (!s)
> return;
> trace_kmem_cache_free(_RET_IP_, x, s);
> - slab_free(s, virt_to_slab(x), x, NULL, &x, 1, _RET_IP_);
> + slab_free(s, virt_to_slab(x), x, _RET_IP_);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
>
> @@ -4395,7 +4406,7 @@ void kfree(const void *object)
>
> slab = folio_slab(folio);
> s = slab->slab_cache;
> - slab_free(s, slab, x, NULL, &x, 1, _RET_IP_);
> + slab_free(s, slab, x, _RET_IP_);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
>
> @@ -4512,8 +4523,8 @@ void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
> if (!df.slab)
> continue;
>
> - slab_free(df.s, df.slab, df.freelist, df.tail, &p[size], df.cnt,
> - _RET_IP_);
> + slab_free_bulk(df.s, df.slab, df.freelist, df.tail, &p[size],
> + df.cnt, _RET_IP_);
> } while (likely(size));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk);
>
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