kernel/linux.git/mm/slob.c, branch v5.15.208

slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()

2025-04-10T12:31:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit 05a940656e1eb2026d9ee31019d5b47e9545124d ] In the effort to help the compiler reason about buffer sizes, the __alloc_size attribute was added to allocators. This improves the scope of the compiler's ability to apply CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and (in the near future) CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. For most allocations, this works well, as the vast majority of callers are not expecting to use more memory than what they asked for. There is, however, one common exception to this: anticipatory resizing of kmalloc allocations. These cases all use ksize() to determine the actual bucket size of a given allocation (e.g. 128 when 126 was asked for). This comes in two styles in the kernel: 1) An allocation has been determined to be too small, and needs to be resized. Instead of the caller choosing its own next best size, it wants to minimize the number of calls to krealloc(), so it just uses ksize() plus some additional bytes, forcing the realloc into the next bucket size, from which it can learn how large it is now. For example: data = krealloc(data, ksize(data) + 1, gfp); data_len = ksize(data); 2) The minimum size of an allocation is calculated, but since it may grow in the future, just use all the space available in the chosen bucket immediately, to avoid needing to reallocate later. A good example of this is skbuff's allocators: data = kmalloc_reserve(size, gfp_mask, node, &pfmemalloc); ... /* kmalloc(size) might give us more room than requested. * Put skb_shared_info exactly at the end of allocated zone, * to allow max possible filling before reallocation. */ osize = ksize(data); size = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(osize); In both cases, the "how much was actually allocated?" question is answered _after_ the allocation, where the compiler hinting is not in an easy place to make the association any more. This mismatch between the compiler's view of the buffer length and the code's intention about how much it is going to actually use has already caused problems[1]. It is possible to fix this by reordering the use of the "actual size" information. We can serve the needs of users of ksize() and still have accurate buffer length hinting for the compiler by doing the bucket size calculation _before_ the allocation. Code can instead ask "how large an allocation would I get for a given size?". Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup(), to serve this function so we can start replacing the "anticipatory resizing" uses of ksize(). [1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1599 https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/183 [ vbabka@suse.cz: add SLOB version ] Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Stable-dep-of: a1e64addf3ff ("net: openvswitch: remove misbehaving actions length check") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm, kfence: support kmem_dump_obj() for KFENCE objects

2022-04-27T12:38:51+00:00

commit 2dfe63e61cc31ee59ce951672b0850b5229cd5b0 upstream. Calling kmem_obj_info() via kmem_dump_obj() on KFENCE objects has been producing garbage data due to the object not actually being maintained by SLAB or SLUB. Fix this by implementing __kfence_obj_info() that copies relevant information to struct kmem_obj_info when the object was allocated by KFENCE; this is called by a common kmem_obj_info(), which also calls the slab/slub/slob specific variant now called __kmem_obj_info(). For completeness, kmem_dump_obj() now displays if the object was allocated by KFENCE. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220323090520.GG16885@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220406131558.3558585-1-elver@google.com Fixes: b89fb5ef0ce6 ("mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLUB") Fixes: d3fb45f370d9 ("mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka [slab] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Don't build mm_dump_obj() on CONFIG_PRINTK=n kernels

2021-03-08T22:18:46+00:00

The mem_dump_obj() functionality adds a few hundred bytes, which is a small price to pay. Except on kernels built with CONFIG_PRINTK=n, in which mem_dump_obj() messages will be suppressed. This commit therefore makes mem_dump_obj() be a static inline empty function on kernels built with CONFIG_PRINTK=n and excludes all of its support functions as well. This avoids kernel bloat on systems that cannot use mem_dump_obj(). Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

mm, tracing: record slab name for kmem_cache_free()

2021-02-24T21:38:26+00:00

Currently, a trace record generated by the RCU core is as below. ... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=00000000f3b49a66 It doesn't tell us what the RCU core has freed. This patch adds the slab name to trace_kmem_cache_free(). The new format is as follows. ... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=0000000037f79c8d name=dentry ... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=00000000f78cb7b5 name=sock_inode_cache ... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=0000000018768985 name=pool_workqueue ... kmem_cache_free: call_site=rcu_core+0x1fd/0x610 ptr=000000006a6cb484 name=radix_tree_node We can use it to understand what the RCU core is going to free. For example, some users maybe interested in when the RCU core starts freeing reclaimable slabs like dentry to reduce memory pressure. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201216072804.8838-1-jian.w.wen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jacob Wen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block

2021-01-22T23:16:01+00:00

There are kernel facilities such as per-CPU reference counts that give error messages in generic handlers or callbacks, whose messages are unenlightening. In the case of per-CPU reference-count underflow, this is not a problem when creating a new use of this facility because in that case the bug is almost certainly in the code implementing that new use. However, trouble arises when deploying across many systems, which might exercise corner cases that were not seen during development and testing. Here, it would be really nice to get some kind of hint as to which of several uses the underflow was caused by. This commit therefore exposes a mem_dump_obj() function that takes a pointer to memory (which must still be allocated if it has been dynamically allocated) and prints available information on where that memory came from. This pointer can reference the middle of the block as well as the beginning of the block, as needed by things like RCU callback functions and timer handlers that might not know where the beginning of the memory block is. These functions and handlers can use mem_dump_obj() to print out better hints as to where the problem might lie. The information printed can depend on kernel configuration. For example, the allocation return address can be printed only for slab and slub, and even then only when the necessary debug has been enabled. For slab, build with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y, and either use sizes with ample space to the next power of two or use the SLAB_STORE_USER when creating the kmem_cache structure. For slub, build with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y and boot with slub_debug=U, or pass SLAB_STORE_USER to kmem_cache_create() if more focused use is desired. Also for slub, use CONFIG_STACKTRACE to enable printing of the allocation-time stack trace. Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko [ paulmck: Convert to printing and change names per Joonsoo Kim. ] [ paulmck: Move slab definition per Stephen Rothwell and kbuild test robot. ] [ paulmck: Handle CONFIG_MMU=n case where vmalloc() is kmalloc(). ] [ paulmck: Apply Vlastimil Babka feedback on slab.c kmem_provenance(). ] [ paulmck: Extract more info from !SLUB_DEBUG per Joonsoo Kim. ] [ paulmck: Explicitly check for small pointers per Naresh Kamboju. ] Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

mm: extract might_alloc() debug check

2020-12-15T20:13:41+00:00

Extracted from slab.h, which seems to have the most complete version including the correct might_sleep() check. Roll it out to slob.c. Motivated by a discussion with Paul about possibly changing call_rcu behaviour to allocate memory, but only roughly every 500th call. There are a lot fewer places in the kernel that care about whether allocating memory is allowed or not (due to deadlocks with reclaim code) than places that care whether sleeping is allowed. But debugging these also tends to be a lot harder, so nice descriptive checks could come in handy. I might have some use eventually for annotations in drivers/gpu. Note that unlike fs_reclaim_acquire/release gfpflags_allow_blocking does not consult the PF_MEMALLOC flags. But there is no flag equivalent for GFP_NOWAIT, hence this check can't go wrong due to memalloc_no*_save/restore contexts. Willy is working on a patch series which might change this: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625113122.7540-7-willy@infradead.org/ I think best would be if that updates gfpflags_allow_blocking(), since there's a ton of callers all over the place for that already. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125162532.1299794-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Qian Cai Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Christian König Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Thomas Hellström (Intel) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes

2020-08-07T18:33:24+00:00

In order to prepare for per-object slab memory accounting, convert NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE vmstat items to bytes. To make it obvious, rename them to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B (similar to NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB). Internally global and per-node counters are stored in pages, however memcg and lruvec counters are stored in bytes. This scheme may look weird, but only for now. As soon as slab pages will be shared between multiple cgroups, global and node counters will reflect the total number of slab pages. However memcg and lruvec counters will be used for per-memcg slab memory tracking, which will take separate kernel objects in the account. Keeping global and node counters in pages helps to avoid additional overhead. The size of slab memory shouldn't exceed 4Gb on 32-bit machines, so it will fit into atomic_long_t we use for vmstats. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-4-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sl[uo]b: export __kmalloc_track(_node)_caller

2020-03-26T13:45:51+00:00

slab does this already, and I want to use this in a memory allocation tracker in drm for stuff that's tied to the lifetime of a drm_device, not the underlying struct device. Kinda like devres, but for drm. Acked-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200323144950.3018436-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)

2019-10-07T22:47:20+00:00

In most configurations, kmalloc() happens to return naturally aligned (i.e. aligned to the block size itself) blocks for power of two sizes. That means some kmalloc() users might unknowingly rely on that alignment, until stuff breaks when the kernel is built with e.g. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG or CONFIG_SLOB, and blocks stop being aligned. Then developers have to devise workaround such as own kmem caches with specified alignment [1], which is not always practical, as recently evidenced in [2]. The topic has been discussed at LSF/MM 2019 [3]. Adding a 'kmalloc_aligned()' variant would not help with code unknowingly relying on the implicit alignment. For slab implementations it would either require creating more kmalloc caches, or allocate a larger size and only give back part of it. That would be wasteful, especially with a generic alignment parameter (in contrast with a fixed alignment to size). Ideally we should provide to mm users what they need without difficult workarounds or own reimplementations, so let's make the kmalloc() alignment to size explicitly guaranteed for power-of-two sizes under all configurations. What this means for the three available allocators? * SLAB object layout happens to be mostly unchanged by the patch. The implicitly provided alignment could be compromised with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB due to redzoning, however SLAB disables redzoning for caches with alignment larger than unsigned long long. Practically on at least x86 this includes kmalloc caches as they use cache line alignment, which is larger than that. Still, this patch ensures alignment on all arches and cache sizes. * SLUB layout is also unchanged unless redzoning is enabled through CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and boot parameter for the particular kmalloc cache. With this patch, explicit alignment is guaranteed with redzoning as well. This will result in more memory being wasted, but that should be acceptable in a debugging scenario. * SLOB has no implicit alignment so this patch adds it explicitly for kmalloc(). The potential downside is increased fragmentation. While pathological allocation scenarios are certainly possible, in my testing, after booting a x86_64 kernel+userspace with virtme, around 16MB memory was consumed by slab pages both before and after the patch, with difference in the noise. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/c3157c8e8e0e7588312b40c853f65c02fe6c957a.1566399731.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/787740/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixlet, per Matthew] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Sterba Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, sl[ou]b: improve memory accounting

2019-10-07T22:47:20+00:00

Patch series "guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc()", v2. This patch (of 2): SLOB currently doesn't account its pages at all, so in /proc/meminfo the Slab field shows zero. Modifying a counter on page allocation and freeing should be acceptable even for the small system scenarios SLOB is intended for. Since reclaimable caches are not separated in SLOB, account everything as unreclaimable. SLUB currently doesn't account kmalloc() and kmalloc_node() allocations larger than order-1 page, that are passed directly to the page allocator. As they also don't appear in /proc/slabinfo, it might look like a memory leak. For consistency, account them as well. (SLAB doesn't actually use page allocator directly, so no change there). Ideally SLOB and SLUB would be handled in separate patches, but due to the shared kmalloc_order() function and different kfree() implementations, it's easier to patch both at once to prevent inconsistencies. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds