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Message-ID: <202408221046.808356D202@keescook>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:47:36 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...weicloud.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
"GONG, Ruiqi" <gongruiqi@...weicloud.com>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@...gle.com>,
jvoisin <julien.voisin@...tri.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] slab: Allocate and use per-call-site caches
On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 09:30:58AM +0800, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On 2024/8/9 15:33, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Use separate per-call-site kmem_cache or kmem_buckets. These are
> > allocated on demand to avoid wasting memory for unused caches.
> >
> > A few caches need to be allocated very early to support allocating the
> > caches themselves: kstrdup(), kvasprintf(), and pcpu_mem_zalloc(). Any
> > GFP_ATOMIC allocations are currently left to be allocated from
> > KMALLOC_NORMAL.
> >
> > With a distro config, /proc/slabinfo grows from ~400 entries to ~2200.
> >
> > Since this feature (CONFIG_SLAB_PER_SITE) is redundant to
> > CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES, mark it a incompatible. Add Kconfig help
> > text that compares the features.
> >
> > Improvements needed:
> > - Retain call site gfp flags in alloc_tag meta field to:
> > - pre-allocate all GFP_ATOMIC caches (since their caches cannot
> > be allocated on demand unless we want them to be GFP_ATOMIC
> > themselves...)
> > - Separate MEMCG allocations as well
> > - Allocate individual caches within kmem_buckets on demand to
> > further reduce memory usage overhead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
> > Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
> > Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> > ---
> > include/linux/alloc_tag.h | 8 +++
> > lib/alloc_tag.c | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > mm/Kconfig | 19 +++++-
> > mm/slab_common.c | 1 +
> > mm/slub.c | 31 +++++++++-
> > 5 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> > index 3520acaf9afa..d14102c4b4d7 100644
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -4135,6 +4135,35 @@ void *__kmalloc_large_node_noprof(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_large_node_noprof);
> >
> > +static __always_inline
> > +struct kmem_cache *choose_slab(size_t size, kmem_buckets *b, gfp_t flags,
> > + unsigned long caller)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_PER_SITE
> > + struct alloc_tag *tag = current->alloc_tag;
>
> There is a compile error here if CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING is disabled
> when I test this patchset.
>
> mm/slub.c: In function ‘choose_slab’:
> mm/slub.c:4187:40: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named
> ‘alloc_tag’
> 4187 | struct alloc_tag *tag = current->alloc_tag;
> | ^~
> CC mm/page_reporting.o
>
> maybe CONFIG_SLAB_PER_SITE should depend on CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
Thanks! I tried to make the Kconfig use the right dependencies, but I
clearly missed something. There is also some weird behavior between
"depends" and "select". I will get this fixed for the next version.
-Kees
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Kees Cook
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