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2014-04-14Merge branch 'slab/next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg: "The biggest change is byte-sized freelist indices which reduces slab freelist memory usage: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/64" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming slab: fix wrongly used macro slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient slab: make more slab management structure off the slab slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
2014-04-08slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statisticsChristoph Lameter1-1/+5
Statistics are not critical to the operation of the allocation but should also not cause too much overhead. When __this_cpu_inc is altered to check if preemption is disabled this triggers. Use raw_cpu_inc to avoid the checks. Using this_cpu_ops may cause interrupt disable/enable sequences on various arches which may significantly impact allocator performance. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-08slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_addDave Jones1-14/+15
The failure paths of sysfs_slab_add don't release the allocation of 'name' made by create_unique_id() a few lines above the context of the diff below. Create a common exit path to make it more obvious what needs freeing. [vdavydov@parallels.com: free the name only if !unmergeable] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-08slub: rework sysfs layout for memcg cachesVladimir Davydov1-1/+25
Currently, we try to arrange sysfs entries for memcg caches in the same manner as for global caches. Apart from turning /sys/kernel/slab into a mess when there are a lot of kmem-active memcgs created, it actually does not work properly - we won't create more than one link to a memcg cache in case its parent is merged with another cache. For instance, if A is a root cache merged with another root cache B, we will have the following sysfs setup: X A -> X B -> X where X is some unique id (see create_unique_id()). Now if memcgs M and N start to allocate from cache A (or B, which is the same), we will get: X X:M X:N A -> X B -> X A:M -> X:M A:N -> X:N Since B is an alias for A, we won't get entries B:M and B:N, which is confusing. It is more logical to have entries for memcg caches under the corresponding root cache's sysfs directory. This would allow us to keep sysfs layout clean, and avoid such inconsistencies like one described above. This patch does the trick. It creates a "cgroup" kset in each root cache kobject to keep its children caches there. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-08slub: adjust memcg caches when creating cache aliasVladimir Davydov1-0/+13
Otherwise, kzalloc() called from a memcg won't clear the whole object. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-08memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg cachesVladimir Davydov1-10/+9
When a kmem cache is created (kmem_cache_create_memcg()), we first try to find a compatible cache that already exists and can handle requests from the new cache, i.e. has the same object size, alignment, ctor, etc. If there is such a cache, we do not create any new caches, instead we simply increment the refcount of the cache found and return it. Currently we do this procedure not only when creating root caches, but also for memcg caches. However, there is no point in that, because, as every memcg cache has exactly the same parameters as its parent and cache merging cannot be turned off in runtime (only on boot by passing "slub_nomerge"), the root caches of any two potentially mergeable memcg caches should be merged already, i.e. it must be the same root cache, and therefore we couldn't even get to the memcg cache creation, because it already exists. The only exception is boot caches - they are explicitly forbidden to be merged by setting their refcount to -1. There are currently only two of them - kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node, which are used in slab internals (I do not count kmalloc caches as their refcount is set to 1 immediately after creation). Since they are prevented from merging preliminary I guess we should avoid to merge their children too. So let's remove the useless code responsible for merging memcg caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-08mm, mempolicy: rename slab_node for clarityDavid Rientjes1-1/+1
slab_node() is actually a mempolicy function, so rename it to mempolicy_slab_node() to make it clearer that it used for processes with mempolicies. At the same time, cleanup its code by saving numa_mem_id() in a local variable (since we require a node with memory, not just any node) and remove an obsolete comment that assumes the mempolicy is actually passed into the function. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-04slub: do not drop slab_mutex for sysfs_slab_addVladimir Davydov1-5/+3
We release the slab_mutex while calling sysfs_slab_add from __kmem_cache_create since commit 66c4c35c6bc5 ("slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()"), because kobject_uevent called by sysfs_slab_add might block waiting for the usermode helper to exec, which would result in a deadlock if we took the slab_mutex while executing it. However, apart from complicating synchronization rules, releasing the slab_mutex on kmem cache creation can result in a kmemcg-related race. The point is that we check if the memcg cache exists before going to __kmem_cache_create, but register the new cache in memcg subsys after it. Since we can drop the mutex there, several threads can see that the memcg cache does not exist and proceed to creating it, which is wrong. Fortunately, recently kobject_uevent was patched to call the usermode helper with the UMH_NO_WAIT flag, making the deadlock impossible. Therefore there is no point in releasing the slab_mutex while calling sysfs_slab_add, so let's simplify kmem_cache_create synchronization and fix the kmemcg-race mentioned above by holding the slab_mutex during the whole cache creation path. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-04mm: optimize put_mems_allowed() usageMel Gorman1-9/+7
Since put_mems_allowed() is strictly optional, its a seqcount retry, we don't need to evaluate the function if the allocation was in fact successful, saving a smp_rmb some loads and comparisons on some relative fast-paths. Since the naming, get/put_mems_allowed() does suggest a mandatory pairing, rename the interface, as suggested by Mel, to resemble the seqcount interface. This gives us: read_mems_allowed_begin() and read_mems_allowed_retry(), where it is important to note that the return value of the latter call is inverted from its previous incarnation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-27slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAILJoonsoo Kim1-2/+3
SLUB already try to allocate high order page with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL. But, when allocating shadow page for kmemcheck, it missed clearing the flag. This trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() reported by Christian Casteyde. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65991 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/3/764 This patch fix this situation by using same allocation flag as original allocation. Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-02-11slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed partialSteven Rostedt1-12/+20
Vladimir reported the following issue: Commit c65c1877bd68 ("slub: use lockdep_assert_held") requires remove_partial() to be called with n->list_lock held, but free_partial() called from kmem_cache_close() on cache destruction does not follow this rule, leading to a warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2787 at mm/slub.c:1536 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b2/0x1f0() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 2787 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 3.14.0-rc1-mm1+ #1 Hardware name: 0000000000000600 ffff88003ae1dde8 ffffffff816d9583 0000000000000600 0000000000000000 ffff88003ae1de28 ffffffff8107c107 0000000000000000 ffff880037ab2b00 ffff88007c240d30 ffffea0001ee5280 ffffea0001ee52a0 Call Trace: __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b2/0x1f0 kmem_cache_destroy+0x43/0xf0 xfs_destroy_zones+0x103/0x110 [xfs] exit_xfs_fs+0x38/0x4e4 [xfs] SyS_delete_module+0x19a/0x1f0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b His solution was to add a spinlock in order to quiet lockdep. Although there would be no contention to adding the lock, that lock also requires disabling of interrupts which will have a larger impact on the system. Instead of adding a spinlock to a location where it is not needed for lockdep, make a __remove_partial() function that does not test if the list_lock is held, as no one should have it due to it being freed. Also added a __add_partial() function that does not do the lock validation either, as it is not needed for the creation of the cache. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-11mm/slub.c: list_lock may not be held in some circumstancesDavid Rientjes1-4/+2
Commit c65c1877bd68 ("slub: use lockdep_assert_held") incorrectly required that add_full() and remove_full() hold n->list_lock. The lock is only taken when kmem_cache_debug(s), since that's the only time it actually does anything. Require that the lock only be taken under such a condition. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-02Merge branch 'slab/next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-22/+34
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "Random bug fixes that have accumulated in my inbox over the past few months" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: mm: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by slab.c mm: slub: work around unneeded lockdep warning mm: sl[uo]b: fix misleading comments slub: Fix possible format string bug. slub: use lockdep_assert_held slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs slab.h: remove duplicate kmalloc declaration and fix kernel-doc warnings
2014-01-31mm: slub: work around unneeded lockdep warningDave Hansen1-0/+6
The slub code does some setup during early boot in early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() with some local data. There is no possible way that another CPU can see this data, so the slub code doesn't unnecessarily lock it. However, some new lockdep asserts check to make sure that add_partial() _always_ has the list_lock held. Just add the locking, even though it is technically unnecessary. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-01-31mm/slub.c: fix page->_count corruption (again)Dave Hansen1-2/+17
Commit abca7c496584 ("mm: fix slab->page _count corruption when using slub") notes that we can not _set_ a page->counters directly, except when using a real double-cmpxchg. Doing so can lose updates to ->_count. That is an absolute rule: You may not *set* page->counters except via a cmpxchg. Commit abca7c496584 fixed this for the folks who have the slub cmpxchg_double code turned off at compile time, but it left the bad case alone. It can still be reached, and the same bug triggered in two cases: 1. Turning on slub debugging at runtime, which is available on the distro kernels that I looked at. 2. On 64-bit CPUs with no CMPXCHG16B (some early AMD x86-64 cpus, evidently) There are at least 3 ways we could fix this: 1. Take all of the exising calls to cmpxchg_double_slab() and __cmpxchg_double_slab() and convert them to take an old, new and target 'struct page'. 2. Do (1), but with the newly-introduced 'slub_data'. 3. Do some magic inside the two cmpxchg...slab() functions to pull the counters out of new_counters and only set those fields in page->{inuse,frozen,objects}. I've done (2) as well, but it's a bunch more code. This patch is an attempt at (3). This was the most straightforward and foolproof way that I could think to do this. This would also technically allow us to get rid of the ugly #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && \ defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE) in 'struct page', but leaving it alone has the added benefit that 'counters' stays 'unsigned' instead of 'unsigned long', so all the copies that the slub code does stay a bit smaller. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30mm/slub.c: do not VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() for temporary on-stack pagesDave Hansen1-6/+6
Commit 309381feaee5 ("mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE") added a bunch of VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() calls. But, most of the ones in the slub code are for _temporary_ 'struct page's which are declared on the stack and likely have lots of gunk in them. Dumping their contents out will just confuse folks looking at bad_page() output. Plus, if we try to page_to_pfn() on them or soemthing, we'll probably oops anyway. Turn them back in to VM_BUG_ON()s. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-24mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGESasha Levin1-6/+6
Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page. Usually, when one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and the registers. I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is quite useful to people debugging issues in mm. This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual BUG_ON. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-13slub: Fix possible format string bug.Tetsuo Handa1-1/+1
The "name" is determined at runtime and is parsed as format string. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2014-01-13slub: use lockdep_assert_heldPeter Zijlstra1-20/+20
Instead of using comments in an attempt at getting the locking right, use proper assertions that actively warn you if you got it wrong. Also add extra braces in a few sites to comply with coding-style. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-12-29slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabsLi Zefan1-1/+7
/sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000048 # cat cpu_slabs 231 N0=16 N1=215 /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000048 # cat slabs 145 N0=36 N1=109 See, the number of slabs is smaller than that of cpu slabs. The bug was introduced by commit 49e2258586b423684f03c278149ab46d8f8b6700 ("slub: per cpu cache for partial pages"). We should use page->pages instead of page->pobjects when calculating the number of cpu partial slabs. This also fixes the mapping of slabs and nodes. As there's no variable storing the number of total/active objects in cpu partial slabs, and we don't have user interfaces requiring those statistics, I just add WARN_ON for those cases. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.2+ Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-11-22Merge branch 'slab/next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-9/+36
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for slab internals similar to mm/slub.c. This reduces memory usage and improves performance: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155 Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits) mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *' slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc slab: use struct page for slab management slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab() slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu slab: remove nodeid in struct slab slab: remove colouroff in struct slab slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page ...
2013-11-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...
2013-11-13memcg, kmem: rename cache_from_memcg to cache_from_memcg_idxQiang Huang1-1/+1
We can't see the relationship with memcg from the parameters, so the name with memcg_idx would be more reasonable. Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-11mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.cZhi Yong Wu1-3/+3
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-11-11slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flagsChristoph Lameter1-2/+2
Andreas Herrmann writes: When I've used slub_debug kernel option (e.g. "slub_debug=,skbuff_fclone_cache" or similar) on a debug session I've seen a panic like: Highbank #setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda2 kgdboc.kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 slub_debug=,kmalloc-4096 earlyprintk=ttyAMA0 ... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 pgd = c0004000 [00000000] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 3.12.0-00048-gbe408cd #314 task: c0898360 ti: c088a000 task.ti: c088a000 PC is at strncmp+0x1c/0x84 LR is at kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60 pc : [<c02c6da0>] lr : [<c0110a3c>] psr: 200001d3 sp : c088bea8 ip : c088beb8 fp : c088beb4 r10: 00000000 r9 : 413fc090 r8 : 00000001 r7 : 00000000 r6 : c2984a08 r5 : c0966e78 r4 : 00000000 r3 : 0000006b r2 : 0000000c r1 : 00000000 r0 : c2984a08 Flags: nzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel Control: 10c5387d Table: 0000404a DAC: 00000015 Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc088a248) Stack: (0xc088bea8 to 0xc088c000) bea0: c088bed4 c088beb8 c0110a3c c02c6d90 c0966e78 00000040 bec0: ef001f00 00000040 c088bf14 c088bed8 c0112070 c0110a04 00000005 c010fac8 bee0: c088bf5c c088bef0 c010fac8 ef001f00 00000040 00000000 00000040 00000001 bf00: 413fc090 00000000 c088bf34 c088bf18 c0839190 c0112040 00000000 ef001f00 bf20: 00000000 00000000 c088bf54 c088bf38 c0839200 c083914c 00000006 c0961c4c bf40: c0961c28 00000000 c088bf7c c088bf58 c08392ac c08391c0 c08a2ed8 c0966e78 bf60: c086b874 c08a3f50 c0961c28 00000001 c088bfb4 c088bf80 c083b258 c0839248 bf80: 2f800000 0f000000 c08935b4 ffffffff c08cd400 ffffffff c08cd400 c0868408 bfa0: c29849c0 00000000 c088bff4 c088bfb8 c0824974 c083b1e4 ffffffff ffffffff bfc0: c08245c0 00000000 00000000 c0868408 00000000 10c5387d c0892bcc c0868404 bfe0: c0899440 0000406a 00000000 c088bff8 00008074 c0824824 00000000 00000000 [<c02c6da0>] (strncmp+0x1c/0x84) from [<c0110a3c>] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60) [<c0110a3c>] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60) from [<c0112070>] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410) [<c0112070>] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410) from [<c0839190>] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74) [<c0839190>] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74) from [<c0839200>] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88) [<c0839200>] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88) from [<c08392ac>] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114) [<c08392ac>] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114) from [<c083b258>] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0) [<c083b258>] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0) from [<c0824974>] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318) [<c0824974>] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318) from [<00008074>] (0x8074) Code: e3520000 01a00002 089da800 e5d03000 (e5d1c000) ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1d ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Problem is that slub_debug option is not parsed before create_boot_cache is called. Solve this by changing slub_debug to early_param. Kernels 3.11, 3.10 are also affected. I am not sure about older kernels. Christoph Lameter explains: kmem_cache_flags may be called with NULL parameter during early boot. Skip the test in that case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 and 3.11 Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@calxeda.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-10-24slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabledRoman Bobniev1-4/+31
Move all kmemleak calls into hook functions, and make it so that all hooks (both inside and outside of #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) call the appropriate kmemleak routines. This allows for kmemleak to be configured independently of slub debug features. It also fixes a bug where kmemleak was only partially enabled in some configurations. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Bobniev <Roman.Bobniev@sonymobile.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
2013-10-18mm: Fix some trivial typos in commentsXie XiuQi1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-09-15Merge branch 'slab/next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-86/+56
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB update from Pekka Enberg: "Nothing terribly exciting here apart from Christoph's kmalloc unification patches that brings sl[aou]b implementations closer to each other" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: slab: Use correct GFP_DMA constant slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted() mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code mm, slab_common: add 'unlikely' to size check of kmalloc_slab() mm/slub.c: beautify code for removing redundancy 'break' statement. slub: Remove unnecessary page NULL check slub: don't use cpu partial pages on UP mm/slub: beautify code for 80 column limitation and tab alignment mm/slub: remove 'per_cpu' which is useless variable
2013-09-12mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han1-4/+4
The use of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-04slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted()Christoph Lameter1-37/+0
I do not see any user for this code in the tree. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-09-04mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common codeChristoph Lameter1-8/+0
The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes in slob. As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available in general to perform large order allocations that go directly via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations. kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but can only used for allocations > PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-08-13mm/slub.c: beautify code for removing redundancy 'break' statement.Chen Gang1-1/+0
Remove redundancy 'break' statement. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-08-13slub: Remove unnecessary page NULL checkLibin1-1/+1
In commit 4d7868e6(slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_match) had added check for page NULL in node_match. Thus, it is not needed to check it before node_match, remove it. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-08-08Revert "slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0"Linus Torvalds1-3/+0
This reverts commit 318df36e57c0ca9f2146660d41ff28e8650af423. This commit caused Steven Rostedt's hackbench runs to run out of memory due to a leak. As noted by Joonsoo Kim, it is buggy in the following scenario: "I guess, you may set 0 to all kmem caches's cpu_partial via sysfs, doesn't it? In this case, memory leak is possible in following case. Code flow of possible leak is follwing case. * in __slab_free() 1. (!new.inuse || !prior) && !was_frozen 2. !kmem_cache_debug && !prior 3. new.frozen = 1 4. after cmpxchg_double_slab, run the (!n) case with new.frozen=1 5. with this patch, put_cpu_partial() doesn't do anything, because this cache's cpu_partial is 0 6. return In step 5, leak occur" And Steven does indeed have cpu_partial set to 0 due to RT testing. Joonsoo is cooking up a patch, but everybody agrees that reverting this for now is the right thing to do. Reported-and-bisected-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-17mm/slub: beautify code for 80 column limitation and tab alignmentChen Gang1-36/+56
Be sure of 80 column limitation for both code and comments. Correct tab alignment for 'if-else' statement. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-15mm/slub: remove 'per_cpu' which is useless variableChen Gang1-5/+1
Remove 'per_cpu', since it is useless now after the patch: "205ab99 slub: Update statistics handling for variable order slabs". And the partial list is handled in the same way as the per cpu slab. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-15kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel filesPaul Gortmaker1-2/+2
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-15Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+27
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg: "Highlights: - Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries (Christoph Lameter) - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim) - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li) - SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)" I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner fix in between myself. * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor() slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation slab: fix init_lock_keys slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0 mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
2013-07-15slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match checkSteven Rostedt1-1/+1
In the -rt kernel (mrg), we hit the following dump: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff811573f1>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 PGD a2d39067 PUD b1641067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 tg3 joydev sg serio_raw pcspkr k8temp amd64_edac_mod edac_core i2c_piix4 e100 mii shpchp ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom sata_svw ata_generic pata_acpi pata_serverworks radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU 3 Pid: 20878, comm: hackbench Not tainted 3.6.11-rt25.14.el6rt.x86_64 #1 empty empty/Tyan Transport GT24-B3992 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811573f1>] [<ffffffff811573f1>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffff8800a9b17d70 EFLAGS: 00010213 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000001200011 RCX: ffff8800a06d8000 RDX: 0000000004d92a03 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: ffff88013b805500 RBP: ffff8800a9b17dc0 R08: ffff88023fd14d10 R09: ffffffff81041cbd R10: 00007f4e3f06e9d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff88013b805500 R13: ffff8801ff46af40 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f4e3f06e700(0000) GS:ffff88023fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000a2d3a000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process hackbench (pid: 20878, threadinfo ffff8800a9b16000, task ffff8800a06d8000) Stack: ffff8800a9b17da0 ffffffff81202e08 ffff8800a9b17de0 000000d001200011 0000000001200011 0000000001200011 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00007f4e3f06e9d0 0000000000000000 ffff8800a9b17e60 ffffffff81041cbd Call Trace: [<ffffffff81202e08>] ? current_has_perm+0x68/0x80 [<ffffffff81041cbd>] copy_process+0xdd/0x15b0 [<ffffffff810a2125>] ? rt_up_read+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff8104369a>] do_fork+0x5a/0x360 [<ffffffff8107c66b>] ? migrate_enable+0xeb/0x220 [<ffffffff8100b068>] sys_clone+0x28/0x30 [<ffffffff81527423>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff81527152>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 89 fc 89 75 cc 41 89 d6 4d 8b 04 24 65 4c 03 04 25 48 ae 00 00 49 8b 50 08 4d 8b 28 49 8b 40 10 4d 85 ed 74 12 41 83 fe ff 74 27 <48> 8b 00 48 c1 e8 3a 41 39 c6 74 1b 8b 75 cc 4c 89 c9 44 89 f2 RIP [<ffffffff811573f1>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 RSP <ffff8800a9b17d70> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 0000000000000002 ]--- Now, this uses SLUB pretty much unmodified, but as it is the -rt kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT set, spinlocks are mutexes, although they do disable migration. But the SLUB code is relatively lockless, and the spin_locks there are raw_spin_locks (not converted to mutexes), thus I believe this bug can happen in mainline without -rt features. The -rt patch is just good at triggering mainline bugs ;-) Anyway, looking at where this crashed, it seems that the page variable can be NULL when passed to the node_match() function (which does not check if it is NULL). When this happens we get the above panic. As page is only used in slab_alloc() to check if the node matches, if it's NULL I'm assuming that we can say it doesn't and call the __slab_alloc() code. Is this a correct assumption? Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-07slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurableJoonsoo Kim1-6/+21
CPU partial support can introduce level of indeterminism that is not wanted in certain context (like a realtime kernel). Make it configurable. This patch is based on Christoph Lameter's "slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable V2". Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0Joonsoo Kim1-0/+3
In free path, we don't check number of cpu_partial, so one slab can be linked in cpu partial list even if cpu_partial is 0. To prevent this, we should check number of cpu_partial in put_cpu_partial(). Acked-by: Christoph Lameeter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfoWanpeng Li1-2/+2
Use existing interface node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs to get nr_slabs and nr_objs. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partialsWanpeng Li1-2/+0
This patch remove unused nr_partials variable. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-05-07Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-181/+40
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg: "The bulk of the changes are more slab unification from Christoph. There's also few fixes from Aaron, Glauber, and Joonsoo thrown into the mix." * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (24 commits) mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc caches slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processor slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_match slub: add 'likely' macro to inc_slabs_node() slub: correct to calculate num of acquired objects in get_partial_node() slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches mm/sl[au]b: correct allocation type check in kmalloc_slab() slab: Fixup CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC/DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK sections slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node slab: Rename list3/l3 to node slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination stat: Use size_t for sizes instead of unsigned slab: Common function to create the kmalloc array slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries slab: Rename nodelists to node slab: Common name for the per node structures ...
2013-05-07Merge branch 'slab/next' into slab/for-linusPekka Enberg1-181/+40
2013-04-30mm/slub.c: use register_hotmemory_notifier()Andrew Morton1-3/+6
Squishes a statement-with-no-effect warning, removes some ifdefs and shrinks .text by 2 bytes. Note that this code fails to check for blocking_notifier_chain_register() failures. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-05slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processorChristoph Lameter1-3/+9
As Steven Rostedt has pointer out: rescheduling could occur on a different processor after the determination of the per cpu pointer and before the tid is retrieved. This could result in allocation from the wrong node in slab_alloc(). The effect is much more severe in slab_free() where we could free to the freelist of the wrong page. The window for something like that occurring is pretty small but it is possible. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-05slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_matchChristoph Lameter1-1/+1
The variables accessed in slab_alloc are volatile and therefore the page pointer passed to node_match can be NULL. The processing of data in slab_alloc is tentative until either the cmpxhchg succeeds or the __slab_alloc slowpath is invoked. Both are able to perform the same allocation from the freelist. Check for the NULL pointer in node_match. A false positive will lead to a retry of the loop in __slab_alloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-02slub: add 'likely' macro to inc_slabs_node()Joonsoo Kim1-1/+1
After boot phase, 'n' always exist. So add 'likely' macro for helping compiler. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-04-02slub: correct to calculate num of acquired objects in get_partial_node()Joonsoo Kim1-8/+9
There is a subtle bug when calculating a number of acquired objects. Currently, we calculate "available = page->objects - page->inuse", after acquire_slab() is called in get_partial_node(). In acquire_slab() with mode = 1, we always set new.inuse = page->objects. So, acquire_slab(s, n, page, object == NULL); if (!object) { c->page = page; stat(s, ALLOC_FROM_PARTIAL); object = t; available = page->objects - page->inuse; !!! availabe is always 0 !!! ... Therfore, "available > s->cpu_partial / 2" is always false and we always go to second iteration. This patch correct this problem. After that, we don't need return value of put_cpu_partial(). So remove it. Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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