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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-10 20:21:22 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-10 20:21:22 +0300
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Merge tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka: - The "common kmalloc v4" series [1] by Hyeonggon Yoo. While the plan after LPC is to try again if it's possible to get rid of SLOB and SLAB (and if any critical aspect of those is not possible to achieve with SLUB today, modify it accordingly), it will take a while even in case there are no objections. Meanwhile this is a nice cleanup and some parts (e.g. to the tracepoints) will be useful even if we end up with a single slab implementation in the future: - Improves the mm/slab_common.c wrappers to allow deleting duplicated code between SLAB and SLUB. - Large kmalloc() allocations in SLAB are passed to page allocator like in SLUB, reducing number of kmalloc caches. - Removes the {kmem_cache_alloc,kmalloc}_node variants of tracepoints, node id parameter added to non-_node variants. - Addition of kmalloc_size_roundup() The first two patches from a series by Kees Cook [2] that introduce kmalloc_size_roundup(). This will allow merging of per-subsystem patches using the new function and ultimately stop (ab)using ksize() in a way that causes ongoing trouble for debugging functionality and static checkers. - Wasted kmalloc() memory tracking in debugfs alloc_traces A patch from Feng Tang that enhances the existing debugfs alloc_traces file for kmalloc caches with information about how much space is wasted by allocations that needs less space than the particular kmalloc cache provides. - My series [3] to fix validation races for caches with enabled debugging: - By decoupling the debug cache operation more from non-debug fastpaths, extra locking simplifications were possible and thus done afterwards. - Additional cleanup of PREEMPT_RT specific code on top, by Thomas Gleixner. - A late fix for slab page leaks caused by the series, by Feng Tang. - Smaller fixes and cleanups: - Unneeded variable removals, by ye xingchen - A cleanup removing a BUG_ON() in create_unique_id(), by Chao Yu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817101826.236819-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823170400.26546-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ [3] * tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (30 commits) mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions mm/slub: clean up create_unique_id() mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc slub: Make PREEMPT_RT support less convoluted mm/slub: simplify __cmpxchg_double_slab() and slab_[un]lock() mm/slub: convert object_map_lock to non-raw spinlock mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations mm/slub: restrict sysfs validation to debug caches and make it safe mm/sl[au]b: check if large object is valid in __ksize() mm/slab_common: move declaration of __ksize() to mm/slab.h mm/slab_common: drop kmem_alloc & avoid dereferencing fields when not using mm/slab_common: unify NUMA and UMA version of tracepoints mm/sl[au]b: cleanup kmem_cache_alloc[_node]_trace() mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem mm/slub: move free_debug_processing() further mm/sl[au]b: introduce common alloc/free functions without tracepoint mm/slab: kmalloc: pass requests larger than order-1 page to page allocator mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_large() ...
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@@ -400,21 +400,30 @@ information:
allocated objects. The output is sorted by frequency of each trace.
Information in the output:
- Number of objects, allocating function, minimal/average/maximal jiffies since alloc,
- pid range of the allocating processes, cpu mask of allocating cpus, and stack trace.
+ Number of objects, allocating function, possible memory wastage of
+ kmalloc objects(total/per-object), minimal/average/maximal jiffies
+ since alloc, pid range of the allocating processes, cpu mask of
+ allocating cpus, numa node mask of origins of memory, and stack trace.
Example:::
- 1085 populate_error_injection_list+0x97/0x110 age=166678/166680/166682 pid=1 cpus=1::
- __slab_alloc+0x6d/0x90
- kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2eb/0x300
- populate_error_injection_list+0x97/0x110
- init_error_injection+0x1b/0x71
- do_one_initcall+0x5f/0x2d0
- kernel_init_freeable+0x26f/0x2d7
- kernel_init+0xe/0x118
- ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
-
+ 338 pci_alloc_dev+0x2c/0xa0 waste=521872/1544 age=290837/291891/293509 pid=1 cpus=106 nodes=0-1
+ __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11f/0x4e0
+ kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xa0
+ pci_alloc_dev+0x2c/0xa0
+ pci_scan_single_device+0xd2/0x150
+ pci_scan_slot+0xf7/0x2d0
+ pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x4e/0x360
+ acpi_pci_root_create+0x32e/0x3b0
+ pci_acpi_scan_root+0x2b9/0x2d0
+ acpi_pci_root_add.cold.11+0x110/0xb0a
+ acpi_bus_attach+0x262/0x3f0
+ device_for_each_child+0xb7/0x110
+ acpi_dev_for_each_child+0x77/0xa0
+ acpi_bus_attach+0x108/0x3f0
+ device_for_each_child+0xb7/0x110
+ acpi_dev_for_each_child+0x77/0xa0
+ acpi_bus_attach+0x108/0x3f0
2. free_traces::