17 Jan, 2019
1 commit
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commit 09c2e76ed734a1d36470d257a778aaba28e86531 upstream.
Callers of __alloc_alien() check for NULL. We must do the same check in
__alloc_alien_cache to avoid NULL pointer dereferences on allocation
failures.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/010001680f42f192-82b4e12e-1565-4ee0-ae1f-1e98974906aa-000000@email.amazonses.com
Fixes: 49dfc304ba241 ("slab: use the lock on alien_cache, instead of the lock on array_cache")
Fixes: c8522a3a5832b ("Slab: introduce alloc_alien")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Reported-by: syzbot+d6ed4ec679652b4fd4e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
01 Dec, 2018
1 commit
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commit 61448479a9f2c954cde0cfe778cb6bec5d0a748d upstream.
Slub does not call kmalloc_slab() for sizes > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE,
instead it falls back to kmalloc_large().For slab KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE == KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE and it calls
kmalloc_slab() for all allocations relying on NULL return value for
over-sized allocations.This inconsistency leads to unwanted warnings from kmalloc_slab() for
over-sized allocations for slab. Returning NULL for failed allocations is
the expected behavior.Make slub and slab code consistent by checking size >
KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE in slab before calling kmalloc_slab().While we are here also fix the check in kmalloc_slab(). We should check
against KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE rather than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE. It all kinda
worked because for slab the constants are the same, and slub always checks
the size against KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE before kmalloc_slab(). But if we
get there with size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE anyhow bad things will
happen. For example, in case of a newly introduced bug in slub code.Also move the check in kmalloc_slab() from function entry to the size >
192 case. This partially compensates for the additional check in slab
code and makes slub code a bit faster (at least theoretically).Also drop __GFP_NOWARN in the warning check. This warning means a bug in
slab code itself, user-passed flags have nothing to do with it.Nothing of this affects slob.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180927171502.226522-1-dvyukov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov
Reported-by: syzbot+87829a10073277282ad1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+ef4e8fc3a06e9019bb40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+6e438f4036df52cbb863@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+8574471d8734457d98aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+af1504df0807a083dbd9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
30 May, 2018
1 commit
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[ Upstream commit 880cd276dff17ea29e9a8404275c9502b265afa7 ]
All the root caches are linked into slab_root_caches which was
introduced by the commit 510ded33e075 ("slab: implement slab_root_caches
list") but it missed to add the SLAB's kmem_cache.While experimenting with opt-in/opt-out kmem accounting, I noticed
system crashes due to NULL dereference inside cache_from_memcg_idx()
while deferencing kmem_cache.memcg_params.memcg_caches. The upstream
clean kernel will not see these crashes but SLAB should be consistent
with SLUB which does linked its boot caches (kmem_cache_node and
kmem_cache) into slab_root_caches.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319210020.60289-1-shakeelb@google.com
Fixes: 510ded33e075c ("slab: implement slab_root_caches list")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
24 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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commit a9f2a846f0503e7d729f552e3ccfe2279010fe94 upstream.
cache_reap() is initially scheduled in start_cpu_timer() via
schedule_delayed_work_on(). But then the next iterations are scheduled
via schedule_delayed_work(), i.e. using WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.Thus since commit ef557180447f ("workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND
work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs") there is no guarantee the future
iterations will run on the originally intended cpu, although it's still
preferred. I was able to demonstrate this with
/sys/module/workqueue/parameters/debug_force_rr_cpu. IIUC, it may also
happen due to migrating timers in nohz context. As a result, some cpu's
would be calling cache_reap() more frequently and others never.This patch uses schedule_delayed_work_on() with the current cpu when
scheduling the next iteration.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411070007.32225-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: ef557180447f ("workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: John Stultz
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Stephen Boyd
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
22 Feb, 2018
2 commits
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commit 75f296d93bcebcfe375884ddac79e30263a31766 upstream.
Convert all allocations that used a NOTRACK flag to stop using it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Tim Hansen
Cc: Vegard Nossum
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
commit 4950276672fce5c241857540f8561c440663673d upstream.
Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.
As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.This patch (of 4):
Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.
[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Tim Hansen
Cc: Vegard Nossum
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
02 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
07 Jul, 2017
3 commits
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Josef's redesign of the balancing between slab caches and the page cache
requires slab cache statistics at the lruvec level.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530181724.27197-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Josef Bacik
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "mm: per-lruvec slab stats"
Josef is working on a new approach to balancing slab caches and the page
cache. For this to work, he needs slab cache statistics on the lruvec
level. These patches implement that by adding infrastructure that
allows updating and reading generic VM stat items per lruvec, then
switches some existing VM accounting sites, including the slab
accounting ones, to this new cgroup-aware API.I'll follow up with more patches on this, because there is actually
substantial simplification that can be done to the memory controller
when we replace private memcg accounting with making the existing VM
accounting sites cgroup-aware. But this is enough for Josef to base his
slab reclaim work on, so here goes.This patch (of 5):
To re-implement slab cache vs. page cache balancing, we'll need the
slab counters at the lruvec level, which, ever since lru reclaim was
moved from the zone to the node, is the intersection of the node, not
the zone, and the memcg.We could retain the per-zone counters for when the page allocator dumps
its memory information on failures, and have counters on both levels -
which on all but NUMA node 0 is usually redundant. But let's keep it
simple for now and just move them. If anybody complains we can restore
the per-zone counters.[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix oops]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605183511.GA8915@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530181724.27197-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Josef Bacik
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170616072918epcms5p4ff16c24ef8472b4c3b4371823cd87856@epcms5p4
Signed-off-by: Canjiang Lu
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:- Debloat RCU headers
- Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)
- Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
srcu: Debloat the header
srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
srcu: Parallelize callback handling
kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
rcu: Use bool value directly
...
04 May, 2017
1 commit
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Each slab kmem cache has per cpu array caches. The array caches are
created when the kmem_cache is created, either via kmem_cache_create()
or lazily when the first object is allocated in context of a kmem
enabled memcg. Array caches are replaced by writing to /proc/slabinfo.Array caches are protected by holding slab_mutex or disabling
interrupts. Array cache allocation and replacement is done by
__do_tune_cpucache() which holds slab_mutex and calls
kick_all_cpus_sync() to interrupt all remote processors which confirms
there are no references to the old array caches.IPIs are needed when replacing array caches. But when creating a new
array cache, there's no need to send IPIs because there cannot be any
references to the new cache. Outside of memcg kmem accounting these
IPIs occur at boot time, so they're not a problem. But with memcg kmem
accounting each container can create kmem caches, so the IPIs are
wasteful.Avoid unnecessary IPIs when creating array caches.
Test which reports the IPI count of allocating slab in 10000 memcg:
import os
def ipi_count():
with open("/proc/interrupts") as f:
for l in f:
if 'Function call interrupts' in l:
return int(l.split()[1])def echo(val, path):
with open(path, "w") as f:
f.write(val)n = 10000
os.chdir("/mnt/cgroup/memory")
pid = str(os.getpid())
a = ipi_count()
for i in range(n):
os.mkdir(str(i))
echo("1G\n", "%d/memory.limit_in_bytes" % i)
echo("1G\n", "%d/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes" % i)
echo(pid, "%d/cgroup.procs" % i)
open("/tmp/x", "w").close()
os.unlink("/tmp/x")
b = ipi_count()
print "%d loops: %d => %d (+%d ipis)" % (n, a, b, b-a)
echo(pid, "cgroup.procs")
for i in range(n):
os.rmdir(str(i))patched: 10000 loops: 1069 => 1170 (+101 ipis)
unpatched: 10000 loops: 1192 => 48933 (+47741 ipis)Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170416214544.109476-1-gthelen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the
case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc:
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes
02 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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But first update the usage sites with the new header dependency.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
23 Feb, 2017
3 commits
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__kmem_cache_shrink() is called with %true @deactivate only for memcg
caches. Remove @deactivate from __kmem_cache_shrink() and introduce
__kmemcg_cache_deactivate() instead. Each memcg-supporting allocator
should implement it and it should deactivate and drain the cache.This is to allow memcg cache deactivation behavior to further deviate
from simple shrinking without messing up __kmem_cache_shrink().This is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any observable
behavior changes.v2: Dropped unnecessary ifdef in mm/slab.h as suggested by Vladimir.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-8-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "slab: make memcg slab destruction scalable", v3.
With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and
destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can
accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not
under memory pressure. When memory reclaim starts under such
conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of
many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large
systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management
code.I've seen machines which end up with hundred thousands of caches and
many millions of kernfs_nodes. The current code is O(N^2) on the total
number of caches and has synchronous rcu_barrier() and
synchronize_sched() in cgroup offline / release path which is executed
while holding cgroup_mutex. Combined, this leads to very expensive and
slow cache destruction operations which can easily keep running for half
a day.This also messes up /proc/slabinfo along with other cache iterating
operations. seq_file operates on 4k chunks and on each 4k boundary
tries to seek to the last position in the list. With a huge number of
caches on the list, this becomes very slow and very prone to the list
content changing underneath it leading to a lot of missing and/or
duplicate entries.This patchset addresses the scalability problem.
* Add root and per-memcg lists. Update each user to use the
appropriate list.* Make rcu_barrier() for SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU caches globally batched
and asynchronous.* For dying empty slub caches, remove the sysfs files after
deactivation so that we don't end up with millions of sysfs files
without any useful information on them.This patchset contains the following nine patches.
0001-Revert-slub-move-synchronize_sched-out-of-slab_mutex.patch
0002-slub-separate-out-sysfs_slab_release-from-sysfs_slab.patch
0003-slab-remove-synchronous-rcu_barrier-call-in-memcg-ca.patch
0004-slab-reorganize-memcg_cache_params.patch
0005-slab-link-memcg-kmem_caches-on-their-associated-memo.patch
0006-slab-implement-slab_root_caches-list.patch
0007-slab-introduce-__kmemcg_cache_deactivate.patch
0008-slab-remove-synchronous-synchronize_sched-from-memcg.patch
0009-slab-remove-slub-sysfs-interface-files-early-for-emp.patch
0010-slab-use-memcg_kmem_cache_wq-for-slab-destruction-op.patch0001 reverts an existing optimization to prepare for the following
changes. 0002 is a prep patch. 0003 makes rcu_barrier() in release
path batched and asynchronous. 0004-0006 separate out the lists.
0007-0008 replace synchronize_sched() in slub destruction path with
call_rcu_sched(). 0009 removes sysfs files early for empty dying
caches. 0010 makes destruction work items use a workqueue with limited
concurrency.This patch (of 10):
Revert 89e364db71fb5e ("slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on
shrink").With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and destroyed
frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can accumulate if
there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not under memory
pressure. When memory reclaim starts under such conditions, it can lead
to consecutive deactivation and destruction of many kmem_caches, easily
hundreds of thousands on moderately large systems, exposing scalability
issues in the current slab management code. This is one of the patches to
address the issue.Moving synchronize_sched() out of slab_mutex isn't enough as it's still
inside cgroup_mutex. The whole deactivation / release path will be
updated to avoid all synchronous RCU operations. Revert this insufficient
optimization in preparation to ease future changes.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-2-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reported-by: Jay Vana
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
SLAB as part of its bootstrap pre-creates one kmalloc cache that can fit
the kmem_cache_node management structure, and puts it into the generic
kmalloc cache array (e.g. for 128b objects). The name of this cache is
"kmalloc-node", which is confusing for readers of /proc/slabinfo as the
cache is used for generic allocations (and not just the kmem_cache_node
struct) and it appears as the kmalloc-128 cache is missing.An easy solution is to use the kmalloc- name when pre-creating the
cache, which we can get from the kmalloc_info array.Example /proc/slabinfo before the patch:
...
kmalloc-256 1647 1984 256 16 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 124 124 828
kmalloc-192 1974 1974 192 21 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 94 94 133
kmalloc-96 1332 1344 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 42 42 219
kmalloc-64 2505 5952 64 64 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 93 93 715
kmalloc-32 4278 4464 32 124 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 36 36 346
kmalloc-node 1352 1376 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 43 43 53
kmem_cache 132 147 192 21 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 7 7 0After the patch:
...
kmalloc-256 1672 2160 256 16 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 135 135 807
kmalloc-192 1992 2016 192 21 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 96 96 203
kmalloc-96 1159 1184 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 37 37 116
kmalloc-64 2561 4864 64 64 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 76 76 785
kmalloc-32 4253 4340 32 124 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 35 35 270
kmalloc-128 1256 1280 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 40 40 39
kmem_cache 125 147 192 21 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 7 7 0[vbabka@suse.cz: export the whole kmalloc_info structure instead of just a name accessor, per Christoph Lameter]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54e80303-b814-4232-66d4-95b34d3eb9d0@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203181008.24898-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jan, 2017
1 commit
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This patch fixes a bug in the freelist randomization code. When a high
random number is used, the freelist will contain duplicate entries. It
will result in different allocations sharing the same chunk.It will result in odd behaviours and crashes. It should be uncommon but
it depends on the machines. We saw it happening more often on some
machines (every few hours of running tests).Fixes: c7ce4f60ac19 ("mm: SLAB freelist randomization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103181908.143178-1-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
of keventd_up().The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
sanity check failure."* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
workqueue: remove keventd_up()
debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
13 Dec, 2016
3 commits
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Rather than tracking the number of active slabs for each node, track the
total number of slabs. This is a minor improvement that avoids active
slab tracking when a slab goes from free to partial or partial to free.For slab debugging, this also removes an explicit free count since it
can easily be inferred by the difference in number of total objects and
number of active objects.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1612042020110.115755@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Reading /proc/slabinfo or monitoring slabtop(1) can become very
expensive if there are many slab caches and if there are very lengthy
per-node partial and/or free lists.Commit 07a63c41fa1f ("mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo
stats") addressed the per-node full lists which showed a significant
improvement when no objects were freed. This patch has the same
motivation and optimizes the remainder of the usecases where there are
very lengthy partial and free lists.This patch maintains per-node active_slabs (full and partial) and
free_slabs rather than iterating the lists at runtime when reading
/proc/slabinfo.When allocating 100GB of slab from a test cache where every slab page is
on the partial list, reading /proc/slabinfo (includes all other slab
caches on the system) takes ~247ms on average with 48 samples.As a result of this patch, the same read takes ~0.856ms on average.
[rientjes@google.com: changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1611081505240.13403@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
synchronize_sched() is a heavy operation and calling it per each cache
owned by a memory cgroup being destroyed may take quite some time. What
is worse, it's currently called under the slab_mutex, stalling all works
doing cache creation/destruction.Actually, there isn't much point in calling synchronize_sched() for each
cache - it's enough to call it just once - after setting cpu_partial for
all caches and before shrinking them. This way, we can also move it out
of the slab_mutex, which we have to hold for iterating over the slab
cache list.Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a10d71ecae3db00fb4421bcd3f82bcc911f4be4.1475329751.git.vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Reported-by: Doug Smythies
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Oct, 2016
2 commits
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On large systems, when some slab caches grow to millions of objects (and
many gigabytes), running 'cat /proc/slabinfo' can take up to 1-2
seconds. During this time, interrupts are disabled while walking the
slab lists (slabs_full, slabs_partial, and slabs_free) for each node,
and this sometimes causes timeouts in other drivers (for instance,
Infiniband).This patch optimizes 'cat /proc/slabinfo' by maintaining a counter for
total number of allocated slabs per node, per cache. This counter is
updated when a slab is created or destroyed. This enables us to skip
traversing the slabs_full list while gathering slabinfo statistics, and
since slabs_full tends to be the biggest list when the cache is large,
it results in a dramatic performance improvement. Getting slabinfo
statistics now only requires walking the slabs_free and slabs_partial
lists, and those lists are usually much smaller than slabs_full.We tested this after growing the dentry cache to 70GB, and the
performance improved from 2s to 5ms.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472517876-26814-1-git-send-email-aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Aruna Ramakrishna
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to over
2000 kworker thread.https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981
This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
kmem_caches for each memcg. Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed since
kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock. So,
the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quietly.synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created. So, this patch rules
out that case.Fixes: 801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475734855-4837-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Reported-by: Doug Smythies
Tested-by: Doug Smythies
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2016
1 commit
18 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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Now that workqueue can handle work item queueing from very early
during boot, there is no need to gate schedule_delayed_work_on() while
!keventd_up(). Remove it.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
07 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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Install the callbacks via the state machine.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823125319.abeapfjapf2kfezp@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
09 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook:
"Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and
copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and
SLUB"* tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support
mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support
s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
mm: Hardened usercopy
mm: Implement stack frame object validation
mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page
03 Aug, 2016
2 commits
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There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok
__init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref.
Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new
section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst")This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces
them treewide./* compatibility defines */
#define __init_refok __ref
#define __initdata_refok __refdata
#define __exit_refok __refI can also provide separate patches if necessary.
(One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions)[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The state of object currently tracked in two places - shadow memory, and
the ->state field in struct kasan_alloc_meta. We can get rid of the
latter. The will save us a little bit of memory. Also, this allow us
to move free stack into struct kasan_alloc_meta, without increasing
memory consumption. So now we should always know when the last time the
object was freed. This may be useful for long delayed use-after-free
bugs.As a side effect this fixes following UBSAN warning:
UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in mm/kasan/quarantine.c:102:13
member access within misaligned address ffff88000d1efebc for type 'struct qlist_node'
which requires 8 byte alignmentLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470062715-14077-5-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2016
5 commits
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Using list_move() instead of list_del() + list_add() to avoid needlessly
poisoning the next and prev values.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468929772-9174-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Both SLAB and SLUB BUG() when a caller provides an invalid gfp_mask.
This is a rather harsh way to announce a non-critical issue. Allocator
is free to ignore invalid flags. Let's simply replace BUG() by
dump_stack to tell the offender and fixup the mask to move on with the
allocation request.This is an example for kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGHMEM) from a test
module:Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM). Fixing up to gfp: 0x24000c0 (GFP_KERNEL). Fix your code!
CPU: 0 PID: 2916 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O 4.6.0-slabgfp2-00002-g4cdfc2ef4892-dirty #936
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x67/0x90
cache_alloc_refill+0x201/0x617
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xa7/0x24a
? 0xffffffffa0005000
mymodule_init+0x20/0x1000 [test_slab]
do_one_initcall+0xe7/0x16c
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x61/0x69
? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x197/0x24a
do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d9
load_module+0x1a3d/0x1f21
? retint_kernel+0x2d/0x2d
SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
? SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x13f
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
printk offers %pGg for quite some time so let's use it to get a human
readable list of invalid flags.The original output would be
[ 429.191962] gfp: 2after the change
[ 429.191962] Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM)Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The kernel heap allocators are using a sequential freelist making their
allocation predictable. This predictability makes kernel heap overflow
easier to exploit. An attacker can careful prepare the kernel heap to
control the following chunk overflowed.For example these attacks exploit the predictability of the heap:
- Linux Kernel CAN SLUB overflow (https://goo.gl/oMNWkU)
- Exploiting Linux Kernel Heap corruptions (http://goo.gl/EXLn95)***Problems that needed solving:
- Randomize the Freelist (singled linked) used in the SLUB allocator.
- Ensure good performance to encourage usage.
- Get best entropy in early boot stage.***Parts:
- 01/02 Reorganize the SLAB Freelist randomization to share elements
with the SLUB implementation.
- 02/02 The SLUB Freelist randomization implementation. Similar approach
than the SLAB but tailored to the singled freelist used in SLUB.***Performance data:
slab_test impact is between 3% to 4% on average for 100000 attempts
without smp. It is a very focused testing, kernbench show the overall
impact on the system is way lower.Before:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 49 cycles kfree -> 77 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 51 cycles kfree -> 79 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 53 cycles kfree -> 83 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 62 cycles kfree -> 90 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 81 cycles kfree -> 97 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 98 cycles kfree -> 121 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 95 cycles kfree -> 122 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 96 cycles kfree -> 126 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 149 cycles kfree -> 171 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 69 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 73 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 72 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 71 cyclesAfter:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 57 cycles kfree -> 78 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 61 cycles kfree -> 81 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 93 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 83 cycles kfree -> 94 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 106 cycles kfree -> 107 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 117 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 114 cycles kfree -> 116 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 118 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 147 cycles kfree -> 131 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 214 cycles kfree -> 161 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 65 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 64 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 67 cyclesKernbench, before:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 101.873 (1.16069)
User Time 1045.22 (1.60447)
System Time 88.969 (0.559195)
Percent CPU 1112.9 (13.8279)
Context Switches 189140 (2282.15)
Sleeps 99008.6 (768.091)After:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 102.47 (0.562732)
User Time 1045.3 (1.34263)
System Time 88.311 (0.342554)
Percent CPU 1105.8 (6.49444)
Context Switches 189081 (2355.78)
Sleeps 99231.5 (800.358)This patch (of 2):
This commit reorganizes the previous SLAB freelist randomization to
prepare for the SLUB implementation. It moves functions that will be
shared to slab_common.The entropy functions are changed to align with the SLUB implementation,
now using get_random_(int|long) functions. These functions were chosen
because they provide a bit more entropy early on boot and better
performance when specific arch instructions are not available.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464295031-26375-2-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, this adds object size checking to the
SLAB allocator to catch any copies that may span objects.Based on code from PaX and grsecurity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks
21 May, 2016
2 commits
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Instead of calling kasan_krealloc(), which replaces the memory
allocation stack ID (if stack depot is used), just unpoison the whole
memory chunk.Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Andrey Konovalov
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Quarantine isolates freed objects in a separate queue. The objects are
returned to the allocator later, which helps to detect use-after-free
errors.When the object is freed, its state changes from KASAN_STATE_ALLOC to
KASAN_STATE_QUARANTINE. The object is poisoned and put into quarantine
instead of being returned to the allocator, therefore every subsequent
access to that object triggers a KASAN error, and the error handler is
able to say where the object has been allocated and deallocated.When it's time for the object to leave quarantine, its state becomes
KASAN_STATE_FREE and it's returned to the allocator. From now on the
allocator may reuse it for another allocation. Before that happens,
it's still possible to detect a use-after free on that object (it
retains the allocation/deallocation stacks).When the allocator reuses this object, the shadow is unpoisoned and old
allocation/deallocation stacks are wiped. Therefore a use of this
object, even an incorrect one, won't trigger ASan warning.Without the quarantine, it's not guaranteed that the objects aren't
reused immediately, that's why the probability of catching a
use-after-free is lower than with quarantine in place.Quarantine isolates freed objects in a separate queue. The objects are
returned to the allocator later, which helps to detect use-after-free
errors.Freed objects are first added to per-cpu quarantine queues. When a
cache is destroyed or memory shrinking is requested, the objects are
moved into the global quarantine queue. Whenever a kmalloc call allows
memory reclaiming, the oldest objects are popped out of the global queue
until the total size of objects in quarantine is less than 3/4 of the
maximum quarantine size (which is a fraction of installed physical
memory).As long as an object remains in the quarantine, KASAN is able to report
accesses to it, so the chance of reporting a use-after-free is
increased. Once the object leaves quarantine, the allocator may reuse
it, in which case the object is unpoisoned and KASAN can't detect
incorrect accesses to it.Right now quarantine support is only enabled in SLAB allocator.
Unification of KASAN features in SLAB and SLUB will be done later.This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: quarantine" patch originally
prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov. A number of improvements have been
suggested by Andrey Ryabinin.[glider@google.com: v9]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462987130-144092-1-git-send-email-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Andrey Konovalov
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 May, 2016
3 commits
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Lots of code does
node = next_node(node, XXX);
if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
node = first_node(XXX);so create next_node_in() to do this and use it in various places.
[mhocko@suse.com: use next_node_in() helper]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Xishi Qiu
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc: Hui Zhu
Cc: Wang Xiaoqiang
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Now we have IS_ENABLED helper to check if a Kconfig option is enabled or
not, so ZONE_DMA_FLAG sounds no longer useful.And, the use of ZONE_DMA_FLAG in slab looks pointless according to the
comment [1] from Johannes Weiner, so remove them and ORing passed in
flags with the cache gfp flags has been done in kmem_getpages().[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/25/553
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462381297-11009-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Provides an optional config (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM) to randomize
the SLAB freelist. The list is randomized during initialization of a
new set of pages. The order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed
at boot for performance. Each kmem_cache has its own randomized
freelist. Before pre-computed lists are available freelists are
generated dynamically. This security feature reduces the predictability
of the kernel SLAB allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks
much less stable.For example this attack against SLUB (also applicable against SLAB)
would be affected:https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/09/10/linux-kernel-can-slub-overflow/
Also, since v4.6 the freelist was moved at the end of the SLAB. It
means a controllable heap is opened to new attacks not yet publicly
discussed. A kernel heap overflow can be transformed to multiple
use-after-free. This feature makes this type of attack harder too.To generate entropy, we use get_random_bytes_arch because 0 bits of
entropy is available in the boot stage. In the worse case this function
will fallback to the get_random_bytes sub API. We also generate a shift
random number to shift pre-computed freelist for each new set of pages.The config option name is not specific to the SLAB as this approach will
be extended to other allocators like SLUB.Performance results highlighted no major changes:
Hackbench (running 90 10 times):
Before average: 0.0698
After average: 0.0663 (-5.01%)slab_test 1 run on boot. Difference only seen on the 2048 size test
being the worse case scenario covered by freelist randomization. New
slab pages are constantly being created on the 10000 allocations.
Variance should be mainly due to getting new pages every few
allocations.Before:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 99 cycles kfree -> 112 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 109 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 129 cycles kfree -> 137 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 141 cycles kfree -> 141 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 152 cycles kfree -> 148 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 195 cycles kfree -> 167 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 257 cycles kfree -> 199 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 393 cycles kfree -> 251 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 649 cycles kfree -> 228 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 806 cycles kfree -> 370 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 814 cycles kfree -> 411 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 892 cycles kfree -> 455 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cyclesAfter:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 130 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 121 cycles kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 176 cycles kfree -> 102 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 178 cycles kfree -> 100 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 205 cycles kfree -> 109 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 262 cycles kfree -> 136 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 342 cycles kfree -> 157 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 701 cycles kfree -> 238 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 803 cycles kfree -> 364 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 835 cycles kfree -> 404 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 896 cycles kfree -> 441 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 123 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles[akpm@linux-foundation.org: propagate gfp_t into cache_random_seq_create()]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Laura Abbott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
