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Subject[PATCH v2 1/5] mm/slab: kmalloc: pass requests larger than order-1 page to page allocator
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There is not much benefit for serving large objects in kmalloc().
Let's pass large requests to page allocator like SLUB for better
maintenance of common code.

Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
mm/slab.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
mm/slab.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
mm/slub.c | 19 -------------------
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 37bde99b74af..e7b3330db4f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -224,29 +224,19 @@ void kmem_dump_obj(void *object);
* Kmalloc array related definitions
*/

-#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB
/*
- * The largest kmalloc size supported by the SLAB allocators is
- * 32 megabyte (2^25) or the maximum allocatable page order if that is
- * less than 32 MB.
- *
- * WARNING: Its not easy to increase this value since the allocators have
- * to do various tricks to work around compiler limitations in order to
- * ensure proper constant folding.
+ * SLAB and SLUB directly allocates requests fitting in to an order-1 page
+ * (PAGE_SIZE*2). Larger requests are passed to the page allocator.
*/
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH ((MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1) <= 25 ? \
- (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1) : 25)
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1)
#ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW 5
#endif
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
-/*
- * SLUB directly allocates requests fitting in to an order-1 page
- * (PAGE_SIZE*2). Larger requests are passed to the page allocator.
- */
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1)
#ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW
@@ -564,15 +554,15 @@ static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t fl
* Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail
* eventually.
*/
+#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
unsigned int index;
-#endif
+
if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
+
index = kmalloc_index(size);

if (!index)
@@ -581,10 +571,17 @@ static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
return kmem_cache_alloc_trace(
kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_type(flags)][index],
flags, size);
-#endif
}
return __kmalloc(size, flags);
}
+#else
+static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
+ return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
+ return __kmalloc(size, flags);
+}
+#endif

static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index ddf5737c63d9..570af6dc3478 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3624,7 +3624,8 @@ __do_kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node, unsigned long caller)
void *ret;

if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE))
- return NULL;
+ return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
+
cachep = kmalloc_slab(size, flags);
if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep)))
return cachep;
@@ -3685,7 +3686,8 @@ static __always_inline void *__do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags,
void *ret;

if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE))
- return NULL;
+ return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
+
cachep = kmalloc_slab(size, flags);
if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep)))
return cachep;
@@ -3739,14 +3741,21 @@ void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *orig_s, size_t size, void **p)
{
struct kmem_cache *s;
size_t i;
+ struct folio *folio;

local_irq_disable();
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
void *objp = p[i];

- if (!orig_s) /* called via kfree_bulk */
+ if (!orig_s) {
+ /* called via kfree_bulk */
+ folio = virt_to_folio(objp);
+ if (unlikely(!folio_test_slab(folio))) {
+ free_large_kmalloc(folio, objp);
+ continue;
+ }
s = virt_to_cache(objp);
- else
+ } else
s = cache_from_obj(orig_s, objp);
if (!s)
continue;
@@ -3776,11 +3785,20 @@ void kfree(const void *objp)
{
struct kmem_cache *c;
unsigned long flags;
+ struct folio *folio;
+ void *object = (void *) objp;

trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, objp);

if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp)))
return;
+
+ folio = virt_to_folio(objp);
+ if (unlikely(!folio_test_slab(folio))) {
+ free_large_kmalloc(folio, object);
+ return;
+ }
+
local_irq_save(flags);
kfree_debugcheck(objp);
c = virt_to_cache(objp);
@@ -4211,12 +4229,17 @@ void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
size_t __ksize(const void *objp)
{
struct kmem_cache *c;
+ struct folio *folio;
size_t size;

BUG_ON(!objp);
if (unlikely(objp == ZERO_SIZE_PTR))
return 0;

+ folio = virt_to_folio(objp);
+ if (!folio_test_slab(folio))
+ return folio_size(folio);
+
c = virt_to_cache(objp);
size = c ? c->object_size : 0;

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index c7f2abc2b154..31e98beb47a3 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -664,6 +664,25 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_from_obj(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
print_tracking(cachep, x);
return cachep;
}
+
+static __always_inline void kfree_hook(void *x)
+{
+ kmemleak_free(x);
+ kasan_kfree_large(x);
+}
+
+static inline void free_large_kmalloc(struct folio *folio, void *object)
+{
+ unsigned int order = folio_order(folio);
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order == 0))
+ pr_warn_once("object pointer: 0x%p\n", object);
+
+ kfree_hook(object);
+ mod_lruvec_page_state(folio_page(folio, 0), NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
+ -(PAGE_SIZE << order));
+ __free_pages(folio_page(folio, 0), order);
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */

static inline size_t slab_ksize(const struct kmem_cache *s)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 261474092e43..04fd084f4709 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1686,12 +1686,6 @@ static inline void *kmalloc_large_node_hook(void *ptr, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
return ptr;
}

-static __always_inline void kfree_hook(void *x)
-{
- kmemleak_free(x);
- kasan_kfree_large(x);
-}
-
static __always_inline bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
void *x, bool init)
{
@@ -3535,19 +3529,6 @@ struct detached_freelist {
struct kmem_cache *s;
};

-static inline void free_large_kmalloc(struct folio *folio, void *object)
-{
- unsigned int order = folio_order(folio);
-
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order == 0))
- pr_warn_once("object pointer: 0x%p\n", object);
-
- kfree_hook(object);
- mod_lruvec_page_state(folio_page(folio, 0), NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
- -(PAGE_SIZE << order));
- __free_pages(folio_page(folio, 0), order);
-}
-
/*
* This function progressively scans the array with free objects (with
* a limited look ahead) and extract objects belonging to the same
--
2.33.1
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